observer Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 The bus pass has your photo on it, providing the drivers check it against the user, how is possible to "abuse" it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyMac Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 The bus pass has your photo on it, providing the drivers check it against the user, how is possible to "abuse" it? It's hardly a passport check at immigration - I suspect many bus drivers don't spend too much time scrutinising the details like they do at airports! Ten seconds making a thorough examination of whether a person really is exactly the same as their bus pass picture could add minutes on to your local trip by the time you've accounted for every senior citizen at every stop. Sounds like more of a press release to warn pass holders that checks will be taking place soon. Perhaps more important is this quote: "In addition, the smartcard passes are relatively new and by checking them now we can ensure that they will work properly when used on a bus fitted with the latest electronic ticket machines." The local bus company has just started trialling new ticket machines which will at some point soon require senior citizens to put their smartcard free pass next to the reader pad - like they do in that there London with them Oyster cards (or closer to home as is already in place with free bus passes in Lancashire). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianR Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 i've noticed greater scrutiny this week of my plus bus pass. Word must be getting round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Crumblies all look the same to me. Any description I had to give would go - Hair - Grey, Skin - Wrinkly, Glasses - Yes, Sex - not for quite some time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Crumblies all look the same to me. Any description I had to give would go - Hair - Grey, Skin - Wrinkly, Glasses - Yes, Sex - not for quite some time! Wash your mouth out. You only got two right. obs. It seems that they are looking for forgeries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted August 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Forgeries?! Is nothing sacred?! Not much hope for ID cards then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kateoflymm Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Crumblies all look the same to me. Any description I had to give would go - Hair - Grey, Skin - Wrinkly, Glasses - Yes, Sex - not for quite some time! Inky Pete: When all your teeth are going west, Your hearing fails at every test, Your sex life too has lost its zest And you must wear a woolly vest. As I am now, so you shall be And, though departed I may be, I shall look down and laugh at thee, The once-young Pete, at sev'nty three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Saw this one last night: Please cancel my annual fishing licence as I have died and will not be able to go fishing anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Presume he's now gone to a better plaice?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 He can not go he has no Sole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted September 6, 2009 Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 Did he live in Dover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 No fixed abode - he was a pikey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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