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I blame these sweet little babies for costing me a fare evasion violation earlier this year. They've got swipe panels inside so you don't have to swipe your card anywhere on the platform, just worry about it after you board. Well, the Max cars (Streetcars are smaller trams that run loops downtown, Max are larger commuter trams that reach the suburbs) do not have onboard swipe panels, and in racing to catch one I forgot this. Oh well I though, it's just two stops to the transfer, I'll hop out and make good when I get there.
Fare evasion enforcement fucking sucks. They showed up like clockwork about 15 seconds after I had that thought. They didn't ticket the guy who got angry and yelled at them when they asked to see his card. But they did ticket me.
Moral of the story, yell at and threaten fare enforcement officers.
That happened to me once in Germany, when I was young; I can’t remember in which city. I had taken a first tram line where you stamped your ticket inside the car (just like it worked back in my city), then later during the day I jumped into another streetcar, expecting it to work the same, but on that line the stamping machines were on the platforms... and I was unlucky enough that a fare control guy entered at the next stop. But then he saw that I was a stupid, confused tourist, and didn’t fine me. I was so grateful to him for being lenient, ha ha. With my budget, a fine would have sucked, but I felt like the shame of being perceived as dishonest while visiting a foreign country would have been even worse.