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I once made a schoolboy error at Waterloo (this was at the end of slam door days) - needed to get to Wimbledon before a van hire place shut, was running rather late (end of rush hour), and jumped on a Guildford stopper just as it was pulling away, which would get me there minutes before it...

Do bear in mind, though, that not all of your colleagues are as knowledgeable or as professional as you. I've seen numerous occasions where a guard/RPI has waded in guns blazing, unprovoked, despite the customer having a valid ticket (or indeed when the fabled "man in the platform" has been real...

I WILL KILL YOU NOW IN BETA etc etc. I agree to an extent. There comes a point at which laws are ignored, for better or worse, and one of the factors in this is enforcement. This could range from parking on the pavement to deliberate civil disobedience.

On my commute (FCC GN route), there's rarely anybody caught at peak times - think I've seen it once in the last few years, and that's from a barrierless station. On occasion, you'll get someone travelling on an off-peak ticket in the evening peak (usually in the school holidays), but they almost...

Oh, completely agree that this case is clear cut fraud.

So is this like tax avoidance vs tax evasion? Will we have to refer to fare avoision for those not-so-clear-cut cases?

Unless, of course, the clerk is in a rush, and stamps the ticket without saying anything.

Well, my local (FCC) machine is hardly clear about restrictions. Here's a description. And bear in mind that the ticket office is open very limited hours. You can buy a ticket for the next morning, but that's peak only during the week. It doesn't warn you when you've selected a ticket for...