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So very pissed off about this bollocks. Lemme lay it down for y'all;

I turn up to the train station slightly later tha I'd have liked, the train's going to arrive in a few minutes, so I rush up to the ticket office and... nobody's there. The lights are on but there's no bloke waiting to take my monies. What a fine time he's picked to take a ****.
There's a permit machine nearby, but I don't have any coins for it. Not that I'd use it anyway since whenever I HAVE, it's eaten my money and not given me a ticket.

Now, for the past few months this ticket office has been closed completely, so what I'd do is buy a ticket at New Street, where I leave the train. This has been okay for those past months once I explained that my station was locked down tighter than the Mother Superior's knickers because of constant break-ins.
So, what the hell, I'll do the same today.

But oh no.
Thanks to Central Trains being... well, ****, a new company called London Midland has taken the baton, and decided to ram it up MY arse.
I get to the New Street ticket sellers, ask for a ticket, and get fined £20! Twenty ****ing pound!
In fact, whilstr I was being served this fine some ******* just walked straight past the entire useless ****ing lot without a ticket, without even the notion he'd ****ing bother to BUY one, and I'M getting my arse fingered for ASKING these ****s to TAKE MY MONEY!

Ah, but I'm given a chance to appeal. Which I didn't do until I found out I could do it online (They'd asked for it to be hand-written you see, and if I'd hand-written my appeal they'd think I was drunk and/or taking the piss).
I explain all of this to them in my e-mailed appeal, and today I had a reply. I shall sum up the pertinent information thusly:
Yeah, well I ****ing DID ASK to buy my ticket retrospectively, you ****wits.
Oh? sure, the facilities were there, but unmanned or ****ing broken!

Not only can I not appeal against THIS shower of ****e ruling. but they have the mother****ing gall to charge me an EXTRA ****ing 60p for "handling". HANDLING?! I'm paying electronically, what the **** are you ****s handling?! Your balls?!

Oh, so very pissed off.

man that ****ing sucks

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I understand your pain, but an easy way around it: ride your bicycle.

Damm karma...lmao

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Da' man wins every time Lupus.

Did they bother to post WRITTEN policy change anywhere where the average joe would be able to read it to prevent such an occurrence or are they just flat out revenue raising?

Haha, 20 pound isnt much, lol, but still 20 pound that is rightfully yours. Theres one solution, SHOTGUN, then they will listen.

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What, sixteen miles?

That is incredibly unfortunate.

More wrong place, wrong time scenario a bit.
All that nonsense just for a train ride.

Assuming you didn't explode with anger when officials were present, or you let them have it?

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Can I smell your gasoline?
Can I pet your wolverine?
On the day my best friend died I could not
get my copper clean

I don't want to take it up with little Joe
I don't want to fake it but I've gotta know

Was once Nirvanamonkey.

Unfortunately, I'm very nice in real-life, and was actually fairly confident that whoever ran the Appeals thing would realise I was a victim of circumstance.
Obviously not, the little shits.

16 miles is some distance on a bicycle, but it would give you great exercise, and maybe you could even shed 100 lbs off?

That was the smart option to go with. Blowing up would have made the situation much worse, and possibly more expensive.
A victim of circumstance indeed, but the runners of the appeal probably really didn't care what you thought about the matter.

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Can I smell your gasoline?
Can I pet your wolverine?
On the day my best friend died I could not
get my copper clean

I don't want to take it up with little Joe
I don't want to fake it but I've gotta know

Was once Nirvanamonkey.

so could you have just got off the train and walked on by without ever paying and they would not know. I know nothing of the train systems on most countries but you ussually can't even bouard without a pass. Japan, makes you buy in advance, and here in america we have to use coins or buy tickets for subways but they are always, i mean always, manned and if you jump to the turntables they come after you. there are no free rides. In the UK can you buy like a frequent riders card. I know here we can pay like 50 a month and ride as much as we want back and forth as many times regardless of open offices. Maybe thats a solution. Bike riding is all fun untill it rains....

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Chrales Darwin- “ to suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

The UK train system is awful (not as bad as it used to be though) and you pay a ****ing ton for the privilege. Well that's not entirely true, it depends on where you are going/what companies running it. I have to say I pity you for having to go through New Street, it does seem to be one of the most depressing places on the planet.

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That sucks mate, but its the UK train operators for you. Unreliable, money grabbers. I try and avoid Public Transport as much as i can.

I'm alright though because I only ever need to catch a train for work and the government pays for my travel expenses. Still I know how frustrating it is, being charged wrongfully.

I'm in a dispute over a £70 bill with Tiscali, the best way to release this anger is to go on GTA and shoot people. Very healthy

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^^^I like his method of letting off anger. so do you not have like a frequent travelers card?

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Chrales Darwin- “ to suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

I never actually learnt how to ride a bike; everywhere I needed to get to was readily accessible through basic perambulation. Besides, my sense of balance is.... not good.

And if you think I'm riding sixteen miles on a bike through the bad parts of two townships at 1am, you've got a screw loose.

so im assumeing no on frequent ride cards. Bike riding is over rated lol. Can you buy like a moped or motorcycle, I ride my motorcycle everywhere when its not freaking snowing...

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Chrales Darwin- “ to suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.