Travelling in a bus or train without a ticket - have you been caught?
By anilhclites
@anilhclites (844)
India
January 10, 2013 12:48am CST
There is an adage, You travel everyday by train or bus with a ticket and no checking takes place and the day you choose not to buy, checking will take that day only.
In Delhi, it's not the duty of conductor to go to your place and ask you to buy aticket. It's our responsibility to go and buy tickets. So, some people choose not to buy tickets and they may escape like this. But on a bad day, checking is going on and they may fall in a trap and than have to shell out nearly Rs 200(fare amounting upto 20 days). So, it's better to buy ticket in Delhi.
So Guys, have you been caught on the very first day you didn't buy a ticket?
7 responses
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
10 Jan 13
Hi anilhcliets
I travel very less in buses or trains but when ever i travel i will travel buying a ticket only .When i was in college while traveling one of my friend who was also travelling along with me did not buy a ticket unfortunately the bus was stopped by checking squad and he was caught they did not collect fine from him at that moment instead they took him to city out skits produced him in the special court then collected 300 Rs as fine and left him i was lucky that i bought the ticket. 
@anilhclites (844)
• India
10 Jan 13
Poor fellow, but we should all buy tickets. But sometimes we are in such a hurry, that we doesn't have time to buy tickets. But in metro, it's nearly impossible to do that.
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
10 Jan 13
yes we all must but tickets while traveling .Some persons will try to have fun or wanna take a chance of saving even 5 rs because of lazy ticket collectors some times it may back fire.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
This is easy when travelling by bus for a short trip, but not for long trips since there's a checker coming on board on mid way.
For trains, you cannot cheat here in our country because you cannot pass or enter the gate without inserting the train card ticket.
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
10 Jan 13
Hi Jaiho
It is hard to say that we can escape in a short distance travel Once Luck is against us then we may get caught with in few mins before reaching the goal i saw few of the cases like that who were my friends .
@anilhclites (844)
• India
10 Jan 13
When bad luck is chasing you, every thing goes awry. Just to avoid Rs 5, you may end up giving Rs 200. Whenever we don't buy tickets, we remains in panic till we reach our destination.
@Archie0 (5652)
•
10 Jan 13
I have tried doing this, because it really scares me off with a fear that the ticket checker might catch me and take lumpsum money from me and take to the police station. My friends always do this. They travel without buying a ticket almost everyday. I really feel great about their gutts to do that, because it is so risky.
@anilhclites (844)
• India
10 Jan 13
Traveling without tickets is very risky indeed. There are hell of a people who daily travels in local train without buying tickets. I don't know from where they bring so much of guts. I don't have it, I will never travel without tickets. It's as simple as that.
@Shavkat (139933)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
In my country, we can be a chance passengers. We can pay it in the bus, even not having tickets from the booth. So it is not troublesome and there is no issue.
@vernaC (1491)
• Romania
10 Jan 13
Hehe
my first time riding bus and tramp here in Romania were without tickets. I was with Romanian friend then with my husband so it was ok, but of course they told me not to do it on my own which I don't have any plan anyway. The next time I rode tramp I already bought reloadable card so everything was smooth sailing.
my first time riding bus and tramp here in Romania were without tickets. I was with Romanian friend then with my husband so it was ok, but of course they told me not to do it on my own which I don't have any plan anyway. The next time I rode tramp I already bought reloadable card so everything was smooth sailing.
@echo060201 (540)
• China
10 Jan 13
I didn't do that, even once, I always have the tickets to get on the bus or train, because i think it is our responsibility to do that.
@yoniarnon (1079)
• Israel
10 Jan 13
I didn't got caught, but the reason is that i never try it, i always pay, and i think it is unfair to enter without paying, and to any place not only to public transportation..
