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Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:57 pm
by Gob
The 'fare-dodging' student who was manhandled off a train by a fellow passenger has defended his actions and claimed he was the victim in a video which has become a YouTube hit.
Footage of the teenage troublemaker being thrown off a train by a fed-up fellow traveller on the ScotRail service between Edinburgh and Perth has become a viral hit after being uploaded to You Tube. It begins when a conductor is told the teenager doesn't have a ticket and tells the driver of the train to stop until the youngster gets off. When the youth refuses a shouting match ensues until a passenger, later referred to as 'the big man' leaps to his feet and frogmarches him off the train - and keeps pushing him off when he repeatedly tries to re-board the service.
A two-and-a-half minute video clip - ‘Scotrail No Ticket’ - was posted three days ago and has already been viewed almost 200,000 times. But the 19-year-old student, from Falkirk, has since insisted he was in the right after being tracked down at his home by a local newspaper. He said last night: 'I had been out celebrating after an exam and I was half asleep on the train. ‘I did have a ticket but I must have handed over the wrong one to the conductor. The next thing I know this big guy is manhandling me to the door and throwing me off.
University student Sam Main, who is studying surveying, added: ‘I couldn’t believe it when the footage turned up on YouTube.'
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1gSTOeAQv
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:01 pm
by Gob
Love this comment!
Look on the bright side, you just learnt more about real life in 2 minutes than you will in 3 years at University.
- Sam, Down South, 14/12/2011 4:48
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:13 pm
by Scooter
He claims he did have a ticket and showed the wrong one to the conductor. If I knew I had bought a ticket (if he is telling the truth) and was being told to get off the train, I wouldn't go voluntarily either.
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:33 pm
by Gob
Hopefully you'd show it to him? Rather than abuse him, swear your head off in front of all the other passengers, including kids, and not be such a fucking pain in the arse as to require the Big Man to give you attention? (Or maybe you'd like that?
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Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:47 pm
by Gob
A mobile phone recording by a passenger on board the Edinburgh to Perth train on 9 December was viewed around the world on YouTube.
It showed Alan Pollock - since dubbed "Big man" - throwing 19-year-old Sam Main off a train after he argued with a ticket inspector.
The Crown Office said it was not in the public interest to prosecute the pair.
Two weeks after the incident, British Transport Police said a man had been charged over an alleged assault.
Mr Pollock, 35, from Stirling, was named as the man who removed Sam Main from the train at Linlithgow station.
First Scotrail conductor Alan Mitchell First Scotrail conductor Alan Mitchell returned to work last week
Mr Main, from Falkirk, was not charged but was reported to the procurator fiscal for allegedly breaking the Criminal Justice and Licensing Scotland Act (2010), which relates to threatening or abusive behaviour.
However, the Crown Office now has no plans to proceed in either case.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-e ... e-16954147
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:21 am
by Lord Jim
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:31 am
by rubato
Emotionally satisfying but stupid public policy.
MAX, the Portland lightrail service discovered that if you don't bother to collect tickets, but have a good fine if they catch you anyway, that it saves money and compliance is good.
They should have just written him a ticket for $300 (or some such).
yrs,
rubato
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:43 am
by loCAtek
Exactly, the San Jose Light Rail Marshals would wait patiently, while I fished out the 'right' ticket from my pocket. A regular user could accumulate many passes, from many days; and that was understood.
What isn't tolerated anymore is no proper ticket at all. They write you up, then and there, instead of giving you the option to just get off.
It's more practical, the city makes more money; and the smart riders know it's better to just pay the cheap fare, than risk getting caught without a ticket.
Re: Scotrail scrote meets the Big Man.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:54 am
by Sean
There are two breeds of ticket inspectors in the UK: those with ticket machines and those without. Those with ticket machines can sell a valid ticket (or a penalty ticket if you don't have the money to pay your fare) and those without can only kick you off the train. I'm guessing that this guy was one of the latter.
I can only assume that this muppet of a student later showed his 'valid ticket' to the media and to Scotrail...
