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The other evening I was travelling home and started listerning to my music and went to sleep.
A ticket inspector woke me up, and said he had tried twice to wake me up. My ticket(s) were all in order, but I was of the understanding that a ticket inspector can't/ shouldn't wake up a passenger who is or appears to be asleep, as this could cause a shock to the passenger which could lead to a reaction such as a heart attack/ fit or such like.
The only response the ticket inspector gave as that his manager told him to check tickets ( which obviously appears to mean waking passengers up as well to be able to do this).
Can anyone clarify this or point me in the direction of some text/ literature, which confirms this one way or another.
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are you serious?
i should think that has been done 1000's of times over the last 150yrs of rail travel, PC gone crazy IMHO.
better tell that to all the night pilots near me
there may well be some ancient law stating this, but i can't see it being adhered to in this day and age, where the TOCs extract every single penny from their passengers.
Nope, there is no ancient law or other guidance in relation to waking up a passenger.
You should be grateful as the chances are you would have missed your stop and then bitched about the announcements not being loud enough....
The other evening I was travelling home and started listerning to my music and went to sleep.
A ticket inspector woke me up, and said he had tried twice to wake me up. My ticket(s) were all in order, but I was of the understanding that a ticket inspector can't/ shouldn't wake up a passenger who is or appears to be asleep, as this could cause a shock to the passenger which could lead to a reaction such as a heart attack/ fit or such like.
The only response the ticket inspector gave as that his manager told him to check tickets ( which obviously appears to mean waking passengers up as well to be able to do this).
Can anyone clarify this or point me in the direction of some text/ literature, which confirms this one way or another.
chopperspike
Surely you are not so obsessed with PC as to be serious?
I assume that you meant this to be a humorous post and in the spirit of that I offer the following:
National Railways Byelaw 7 (2005). Music, sound, advertising and carrying on a trade.
(1) Except with written permission from an Operator no person on the railway shall, to the annoyance of any person
(i) sing; or (ii) use any instrument, article or equipment for the reproduction of sound.
I suppose the ticket inspector could complain that your failure to comply with Railways Byelaw 7 in playing music via a reproduction device without authority was an annoyance to him and an impediment to his ability to carry out his duties in checking tickets thoroughly and efficiently.
I haven't had that one put before me by an Inspector yet....but I'll be looking out for it now.
This is a bit tongue in cheek, what if OP had died, or was ill can you imagine not checking until the last station, then discovering you've carried a corpse, I'm sure this has happened to someone.
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Originally Posted by chopperspike76
