Yup, absolutely.Does Metra still allow paying a cash fare on the train? I imagine that might make conductors a target for robbery
There's probably somebody, somewhere, with a wall papered in Metra paper tickets....
If you do it, I **don't** want credit....
You choose your battles...
Several local outlets are reporting that his mother saw his photos on the news and drove him to turn himself in. I think if you saw a media headline using the word "dragged" that would be bad journalistic hyperbole.
I'd hope that number would be in the 99%+ range, 10% of passengers being pieces of work or dangerous would be a huge number of awful people to deal with daily.
My mom would never let me off the hook and I find it rather appalling when other parents have no qualms about sheltering fugitives or fabricating alibies.
You might be correct in a place like Japan but here in the culture of presumed exceptionalism I'd say 90% is being charitable.
I recall a story about my mom stopping the car and making one of my brothers friends get out and pick up something he tossed out of the car. This was probably in the early 60’s. So, I’m sure my mom would have hauled any of us to the police station if she knew we committed a crime.
I certainly don't disagree that "Merica has some of the jerkiest people on the planet. But if we're talking 10% of passengers being a problem that would mean (by pre-pandemic ridership level) that the average Metra train would have over 10 problem passengers per rail car, so a rush hour train train could have 50-100 problem jackwads. That just doesn't add up. Even 1% would be a lot of crappy people, 10% and every conductor would quit.
Not every problem passenger will cause trouble on every trip but it's not hard to imagine that 10% are capable of obnoxious behavior and throwing adult tantrums as soon as something minor sets them off. Even when things go smoothly it's often because the rest of us were able to identify flaky behavior and chose to give a wide berth to the Karen's traveling among us. On a trip last summer there were two women cussing up a huge storm about whoever wronged them and what was coming next. The rest of us chose not to engage them and that more than anything is what kept things moving.
