Ticket inspectors
In Dublin there is a light rail system called Luas, its faster than the bus and fairly cheap so I use it often, so do lots of other people. Most people use it to go from A to B, some however use it as a mobile pub/toilet/drug den. At the ticket machines in the city center there are usually a few tracksuit garbed scumbags who spend all day drinking druids cider and asking for spare change. When enough of the tracksuits have gotten together and loaded up on booze they sometimes hop on the Luas for a bit.

This is were my hatred of the ticket inspectors comes from, are the scumbags ever asked for a ticket? never that I have seen, the inspectors simply walk past & let them party on. Now you might say that they dont want a fight and are not paid to take risks like that, do they call security? Nope they just get off at the next stop after checking tickets & issuing fines only to people who look like they wont argue.

The Luas has now developed a reputation as a means of ferrying shouty drunks & junkies around.

BTW Luas translated into english means speed, its not an acronym for lightrail usually awash in scum.
(cname, Fri 28 May 2010, 13:06, 1 reply)

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As someone who's had to get back to a friend's house in Howth (oh yah) I've experienced this. Whole gang got on and started smoking weed at the other end of the carriage, the ticket inspector just walked through them.
We kept our heads down and they got off before us...
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 28 May 2010, 20:09, closed)