Fare dodger

Queue jumpers and faredodgers are far from being an Indian phenomenon.

[…] roving inspectors to make spot checks in order to deter faredodgers.

Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.

The shortest green times in London are about ten seconds (these are the nervy, scampering green phases where cars dash across Oxford Street, or out into Piccadilly — with the last, guilty car trying to merge with the group in front, like a faredodger shuffling behind you through an automatic Underground ticket barrier).

Where once his parents had ridden in a train to Delhi and resisted the desperate appeals to be let in, made by those without tickets hanging on the outside, Saleem is now himself a faredodger on the train to the capital, clamouring for admittance.

You stand up, say you're going to build more prisons, lock up burglars, place more bobbies on the beat and give your Gatling gun a good, chattering workout next time you spot a faredodger on the bus.

Currently some 6 million faredodgers every year find out just how far their ownership of Indian Railways extends.