Big man charged with assault for removing fare dodger from train

The left wing win again, what a country, it's dead.

Erm do you realise thats theres a big story behind it, according reports the 'fare dodger' had apparently bought the wrong ticket and was about to explain his situation....the big man made the situation worse

Erm do you realise thats theres a big story behind it, according reports the 'fare dodger' had apparently bought the wrong ticket and was about to explain his situation....the big man made the situation worse

How would you propose he got kicked off the train? The other passengers were most likely thankful to the big guy for getting the train moving again. Strong oppressing the weak? The big guy would not have stepped in if the kid had just got off the train when asked politely.

What I couldn't understand, as mentioned already by someone on TV, is why couldn't they have called the police and have them waiting at the next station. That way, the ticket inspector wouldn't have had to have wasted other commuter's time by holding up the train.

Well, when I watched that vid, the kid kept saying he'd paid. So people make mistakes, maybe he had actually paid! and even if he hadn't paid, that man had no right to man handle him off the train! Cmon, what would the country be like if anyone just man handled anyone else on a mere whim? we have police and other officials in power for that, you could be in a supermarket, and if I thought i saw you stealing something I wouldn't come over and manhandle you, I would let the people in charge know. We can't take the law into our own hands, the ticket collector failed to do his job, it wasn't for him to get someone else to do it

The 'Big Man' was nothing more than a brute throwing his weight around. He was using absolutely unnecessary force - has anyone actually seen the video , especially the bit where he is actually throwing him off the train? It looks painful.
There was no need and he deserves what he gets.

What I couldn't understand, as mentioned already by someone on TV, is why couldn't they have called the police and have them waiting at the next station. That way, the ticket inspector wouldn't have had to have wasted other commuter's time by holding up the train.

I also think they wanted to use him as an example so people don't start taking the law into their own hands and thinking being violent is ok.

I understand why they've done it, but I still feel bad for the guy.

railway tickets are different to normal tickets. like some car park tickets they incur a fine if they aren't paid (which can be enforced by law). there is no criminal action, only breach. the guy could 'only' use reasonable force to make a citizen's arrest, which would, i assume, be to ask the train driver to lock the doors and wait.

Because as bad as fare dodging is, the police probably couldn't care too much about this, and it looked like a busy train so the ticket inspector probably was very busy with his duties.

The lad probably knew this and thought he could just get away with it because "What is the ticket inspector gona do, physically chuck me off? " - well, yes, that's what needs to be done. Too many people think they can get away with 'minor' offences such as this because people can't be bothered to actually punish them (the effort of doing this is more than the effort of just ignoring it). But then if you ignore it it just gets worse as more people do it.

I agree that the "big man" was a little too physical about it, but if I had had a long day at work, got on the train wanting to get home and some idiot was holding the train up by arguing with the inspector, I'd personally want to pick him up and throw him off the train too. And I bet most of the others on the train would agree with me.

****inglol. Seriously didn't think people were too bothered about rep until I read this.

Prioritise.