Inspector asks where you're going?

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  • duchy
    duchy Posts: 19,511 Forumite
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    As the train was presumably serving stations beyond the Oyster area (eg Brighton, Gatwick, Bedford etc) it was a perfectly reasonable question .

    Not sure why it got your knickers in such a knot TBH
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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    It may be "reasonable", but you don't have to answer it!
  • barbarawright
    barbarawright Posts: 1,846 Forumite
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    Quentin wrote: »
    Nothing to do with being a "git".

    Just sound advice on the op's rights!

    And the paying passenger certainly has no need to "help them do their job"!

    Because you've bought a ticket so the ordinary rules of good manners don't apply to you? Bet you're a real charmer in your own job.
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    edited 25 February 2013 at 10:14AM
    Nothing to do with manners.

    (Why the unnecessary personal abuse?)

    This thread was started after the op came against an ill mannered hector!

    Hector's are not known for their manners anyway, but by answering unnecessarily you give away your rights.

    They are supposed to be checking the card has been swiped in, and it's not the passenger's fault if they cannot!
  • geordie_taxi
    geordie_taxi Posts: 434 Forumite
    barbarawright wrote: »
    ordinary rules of good manners don't apply

    lol :rotfl: good manners :rotfl: thats a two way thing wot with the grunts and disdain i have received in the past from train staff i can understand why lots of people dont want to enter a conversation with them
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  • Rail_Staff
    Rail_Staff Posts: 62 Forumite
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    Quite a lot of the time checking tickets is about more than just revenue, not all parts of the train go to all the stations, and at some stations not all the train doors open. Sometimes I am checking tickets and also ensuring people are in the right parts of the train for where they are going. It is your perogative to ignore me if you wish but if such behaviour results in you getting stranded or going somewhere you don't want to go then you have only yourself to blame.
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  • Marco_Panettone
    Marco_Panettone Posts: 641 Forumite
    Quentin wrote: »
    Nothing to do with manners.

    (Why the unnecessary personal abuse?)

    Hector's are not known for their manners anyway, but by answering unnecessarily you give away your rights.

    They are supposed to be checking the card has been swiped in, and it's not the passenger's fault if they cannot!

    What 'rights' are you 'giving away'? Can you point me in the direction of any credible source to back this thought up?
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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Marco_Panettone wrote: »
    What 'rights' are you 'giving away'? Can you point me in the direction of any credible source to back this thought up?
    I point to post #6 as why you shouldn't give away your right of silence.

    And why would you have the right not to speak to a policeman but have to do so to a hector without his oyster card reader?
  • Marco_Panettone
    Marco_Panettone Posts: 641 Forumite
    #6 doesn't give any details of this situation ever occuring. I doubt anyone that has been travelling legally, and answered honestly has had to 'settle out of court' for anything. I can't even think of any question that could be asked that could lead to court action based on the answer given!

    Can you enlighten me?
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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Marco_Panettone wrote: »

    Can you enlighten me?

    I don't know why you want further "enlightenment"

    The OP was accosted by an ill mannered hector, who asked an unneccessary question then rudely walked off.

    I just (correctly) pointed out that we do not have to engage in a conversation with hectors.

    Another poster pointed out a real danger in conversing with them, hence me pointing you at #6!!
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