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“They are variously described as scary, intimidating, nasty, evil, horrible, harassing”, the report said.

“There is also a strong visual sense that people associate with [ticket inspectors]: moving in packs, black leather gloves, trench coats, big balding men.”

And in carrying out their role as ticket inspectors, the report found, people believed they were seen as “inflexible” and “deceitful”.

melbourne’s ticket inspectors are approx. 80% scum

suburbananarchist:

For the market-anarchist/agorists, this one is for you.

Scofflaws who jump the turnstiles or enter through the exits have formed an insurance fund that pays if they get caught.

The answer, here in the land that gave the world the motto “All for one, one for all,” is as typically French as it is ingenious: They’ve banded together to set up what are, essentially, scofflaw insurance funds, seasoned with a dollop of revolutionary fervor.

For about $8.50 a month, those who join one of these raffish-sounding mutuelles des fraudeurs can rest easy knowing that, if they get busted for refusing to be so bourgeois as to pay to use public transit, the fund will cough up the money for the fine.

But for many of these fraudeurs, cheating the system and forming a co-op isn’t just about saving money; it’s about striking a blow against a capitalist state that favors the haves over the have-nots. Fare dodgers of the world, unite!