RXA

I was catching a train to meet Lucy for lunch yesterday when I noticed the ticket machine had coins jammed in it. Naturally I did what any law abiding train traveler would do … I took a photo of the jammed slot before boarding the now waiting train.

Two stops later the Connex ticket inspectors came through the carriage, fine book and pen at the ready. The look of glee that crossed their face as they saw I had no ticket was quite disturbing and it didn’t dissipate as I explained my tale of woe and misfortune and jammed ticket machines.

The ‘gentleman’ explained to me that as I had no proof that the ticket machine was jammed and I was probably using it as an excuse not to buy a ticket, I would be paying a fine. It was at this point I whipped out the camera and proudly displayed the jammed coin slot and providing him with the EXIF data to show that the photo had been taken no more than ten minutes ago.

Another of the inspectors was obviously a photographer of some level as he explained to the protesting inspector that EXIF data (he even used that term) cannot be easily changed in camera and that he was more than satisfied that I was telling the truth.

RXA 1, Connex 0.