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Originally Posted by Snowball

guess you are ignoring the fact that tickets have to be made readily available for inspection...... and you're ignoring the fact that yobbo was unable to produce something he said he had paid for.

How convenient.

I'd like you to try that one out when your in a shop - pay cash for goods, and then continue to stay in that shop. You get pulled over for shoplifting and cannot find your receipt. Let's see how you get on.

No, but as someone's already mentioned in this thread...we all make mistakes, and falling asleep on public transport is certainly not uncommon. But of course you've never made a mistake have you? Forgot about that...

I don't really understand your example completely, because if I couldn't find my receipt, and I'd lost it, I would find it extremely rude if somebody automatically assumed I was therefore some sort of thief, calling me one and hauling me out of the shop instead of giving me the benefit of the doubt until it was investigated properly. Jumping to conclusions is what it would be called. Innocent until proven guilty, no? That's if I've understood your example correctly.