Purse stolen before TOD

[tannedfrog]

No, but I was absolutely not going to leave and let him fill his notebook in my absence!

I dont get it - what was to stop him filling in a new page in the fifth hour?

 

[jon0844]

I signed it at the end. If he added anything after, it would have looked rather odd.

I believe every page was numbered too, so he couldn't insert pages in-between afterwards either.

 

[tannedfrog]

Is one obliged to sign anything? I thought providing one's address to the RPI was the only requirement

 

[jon0844]

I wasn't obliged to even stick around, but did so as I didn't want him making anything up or misrepresenting me (i.e. writing that I was confessing to trying to defraud the train operator).

If you were accused of fraud with a view to prosecuting you in court, would you just walk away? In my case, he'd spoken to a couple of people who said he was right and I was wrong, so how would I know how easy it would be to get it cancelled afterwards? As it happened, it WAS easy - but I didn't know that at the time.

 

[tannedfrog]

If you were accused of fraud with a view to prosecuting you in court, would you just walk away?.

I don't know what I would do tbh but I would not wish to waste time explaining myself to an RPI like the one you describe.

Is giving name and address and walking away sufficient in these circumstances?

 

[jon0844]

I was being reported for fraud, so while I could have given my details and walked off, I think it would be silly to do so.

The reason it took so long was there was a process where he had to write down a series of questions for every offence, starting with every offence for a certain number of days, then weeks and then months. I can't remember exactly what it was - but it was a LOT (over 10 pages of his notebook, with the same few questions asked repeatedly).

The questions were along the lines of, did you travel on this date... did you travel with (tickets carried - in my case a Z1-3 ticket and a Z4-6 ticket) and did I attempt to avoid paying my fare.. For those that didn't know, yes he was reporting me for fraud for not having a ticket valid between zones 3 and 4 (and ignoring how the zonal system works). That's why it was cancelled so quickly, along with a big apology and some 'retraining'.

In normal circumstances, I doubt it would take so long. Spare a thought for his colleague who had to sit idly by waiting for this interview to take place outside the station by the buses at Finsbury Park station!

The upside is that all staff got a bulletin to remind them that a Z1-3 and Z4-6 ticket combination is valid to cover all six zones, using my exact ticket combination (starting from Hatfield with the Z4-6 ticket) as a case study! What a shame I've not renewed my season ticket with FCC this year!

(Anyway, apologies for hijacking this thread with something that's rather off topic)

 

[Bungle73]

I was being reported for fraud, so while I could have given my details and walked off, I think it would be silly to do so.

The reason it took so long was there was a process where he had to write down a series of questions for every offence, starting with every offence for a certain number of days, then weeks and then months. I can't remember exactly what it was - but it was a LOT (over 10 pages of his notebook, with the same few questions asked repeatedly).

The questions were along the lines of, did you travel on this date... did you travel with (tickets carried - in my case a Z1-3 ticket and a Z4-6 ticket) and did I attempt to avoid paying my fare.. For those that didn't know, yes he was reporting me for fraud for not having a ticket valid between zones 3 and 4 (and ignoring how the zonal system works). That's why it was cancelled so quickly, along with a big apology and some 'retraining'.

In normal circumstances, I doubt it would take so long. Spare a thought for his colleague who had to sit idly by waiting for this interview to take place outside the station by the buses at Finsbury Park station!

The upside is that all staff got a bulletin to remind them that a Z1-3 and Z4-6 ticket combination is valid to cover all six zones, using my exact ticket combination (starting from Hatfield with the Z4-6 ticket) as a case study! What a shame I've not renewed my season ticket with FCC this year!

(Anyway, apologies for hijacking this thread with something that's rather off topic)

That's ridiculous tbh. I hope you got some compensation.

 

[jon0844]

£50.

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