Comments on: Beating farebeating: Forged MetroCards, open gates

By: Phil H

Phil H — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:35:30 +0000

Check it out. Its all a big load of BULL…. Arresting people who bend cards is all $$$ for the city. The MTA said it them selves 250,000 cases a year… Think about how much money the city makes if they catch just 10% of them doing that. Forgery? HA… If someone was clever enough to make there own card and beat the computer that way.. I would call it forgery. Lets face it, the people who run The MTA shouldnt even be aloud to run a toy train set, never mind The MTA.

By: rhywun

rhywun — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:54:51 +0000

What could possibly go wrong…?

By: herenthere

herenthere — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:01:41 +0000

I never really got why they didn’t put an electronic lock on the emergency exits…and in case of emergency or a bulky item, the agent (of course, in these days, if there’s an agent at all) would unlock the door.

By: rhywun

rhywun — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:19:33 +0000

1. “Forgery” or not, I think the punishment is way too excessive for what is essentially a $2 theft.

2. 99 times out of 100, people use the emergency exit because someone is too lazy to walk four steps farther to the turnstile. That said, it’s sure convenient but as long as cops are arresting people who use them, there is no way in hell I’m going to pass through one. As “emergency” exits, they’re totally useless and someone should have figured out that this was going to happen before they wasted all that money on the alarms.

By: Lake Flaccid

Lake Flaccid — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:51:35 +0000

…At least this involves some ingenuity. Where are the cops when all the lurkers dash for the emergency exit when I come home from work with my suitcase?

By: Fairness

Fairness — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:24:57 +0000

I didn’t say I encourage farebeating. It is NOT a forgery it is the same charge as jumping the turnstile.

Defrauding the system is how all cops get free metrocards that most give to there wives.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:47:25 +0000

Really? So you would encourage people to go around bending fare cards and defrauding the system?

If it’s not a forgery then what is it?

By: Fairness

Fairness — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:45:47 +0000

I agree that bending the card does NOT constitute forgery. Yet another judge not upholding the law but interpreting it to his own interests.