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> It's basically an honor system, but with high fines if you get
> caught cheating.

Boy I'd say.  I first saw this in San Jose, California, where I first
witnessed the no-leniance policy of busting people without fares (they
come on last and then trap you in, hiding behind your back to make
sure you don't escape their view), but then it was much more poignant
in Los Angeles when you saw these people complaining about how they
just got back from Mexico, and to answer the question of why they
left, they had to shyly explain that their transfer had expired 15
minutes too early while riding the Blue Line.  Sometimes this was
hardly their fault -- the transfers in Los Angeles aren't for enough
time to complete a Blue Line leg of a trip often.

You see, if the transfer is expired, they then pull you off the train,
and then check all of your papers and records and stuff -- including
warrants, etc.  Many, many people seem to go to jail this way.

Well, I'm lucky that I had no warrants when they caught me eating an
ice cream cone coming into the station in downtown one day.  I did get
a $250 ticket for it though.

(I saved it, someday I'll frame it ... with a subtitle along the lines
of ``In Los Angeles, you can expect to get tickets and likely go to
jail for things such as eating ice cream cones.'')