Raging ticket controller seizes Chinese traveler's passport
Raging ticket controller seizes Chinese traveler's passportPublished: 26 May 2016 17:14 GMT+02:00
Germany's national rail operator is in hot water after a ticket controller reacted aggressively to a newly arrived Chinese traveler who made one of the most basic transit mistakes: forgetting to stamp her ticket.
A young woman from China had just arrived in Munich on Wednesday afternoon and promptly boarded the S-Bahn train into the city centre after purchasing a ticket.
When a plainclothes controller came around to check tickets, she was in for a shock: the traveler hadn't realized she had to stamp the ticket and thus was technically riding illegally.
But instead of simply escorting the woman to a ticket-stamping device at the next stop, the controller started to make a scene, according to journalist Michael Praetorius, who was sitting by the woman and released a video explaining the story.
As the journalist tried to help translate the Bavarian controller’s demands for the woman who spoke only some English, he said the controller started to get angry, and asked whether she had cash to cover the
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