Peter Goodland wrote:
boeuf

Your use of this word reminds me that there is a rule on French trains,
that if you are unable to buy a ticket before boarding the train (or
validate a pre-purchased ticket),
you must make yourself known to the on-train staff immediately on boarding.

This means that you are caught without a ticket having sat down, you were
intending to evade payment.

Of course this wouldn't work here on trains with DOO

--
Peter



It seems to be interpreted in the UK, eg on the DLR, that you have to
approach the conductor in order to avoid paying a penalty fare.

But in fact, if by doing so you prove that you are not evading your
fare, you render yourself liable to a penalty fare. If you are evading
the fare, you can't be penalty fared and should be prosecuted.

Yet more inconsistency and confusion, willingly propagated by the
operators who want people to believe that PFs are fines. SWT, for
example, gets away with posters that refer to penalty fares as a means
of preventing or deterring fare-evasion.