$219 fine for not having proper change to board transit bus

[matai]

How does that makes you feel?

MONTREAL — Montreal's transit agency says it's investigating after a mother says she and her toddler were abandoned on a dark street in a dispute over exact change.

Read more:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/ca ... 01440.html

[Bsuds]

That is just unfair and moronic. Not only to abandon her with her child but to ticket her to boot!

[matai]

I think there's a misquote in the article.. it says "she didn't want her change back"... it should read: "the driver couldn't give her change back"

[Bsuds]

So what is the problem with paying too much if you don't care if you get change?

[Captain Awesome]

I can bet $5 that the other side of the story is completely different. She looks like one of those women who go from normal to loud and obnoxious in 5 seconds. Big fuss over nothing, and a tear-jerking story to boot.

[Bsuds]

The kid looks like that too. lol

[grammafreddy]

The story says the fare was $3 and all she had was a $5 bill and told him she didn't want the change back. Then a supervisor came on board and gave her the ticket.

Tantost said she boarded a bus towards her home south of downtown and asked the driver for the fare. He told her that she had to pay $3, but she only had a $5 bill.

"I told him I had no change and I didn't want him to give me back my change," said Tantost, 24. "I had my baby in my arms, I told him that I had spent five hours in the hospital, that it was late."

She said the driver declined to give her a transfer ticket, and that a transit inspector then boarded the bus.

He wrote out a $219 ticket.

[matai]

I just watched the video interview, and the lady says she only had a $5 bill to pay for her bus ride, but the driver refused her to pay with a $5 bill, arguing he wanted the exact $3 fare. She told him, to keep the $5, that she didn't wanted the change back. Then at the same moment a controller boarded the bus and fined her for not having the exact change.

Today, a journalist tried to board a bus with a $5 bill, and was refused entrance as well. Here's the link:

http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/region ... 52617.html

[Corneliousrooster]

*make your point without making it personal/Jo*

[matai]

Good news! The STM (Société des Transports de Mourial) decided to cancel the fine:
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/0 ... jeune-mere