| Posted by purplegrum |
6/23/2005 1:27 AM | remove |
People who trespass on the railways could be termed as idiots though too. Train comes, you trip on track... what do you do then?
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| Posted by Corvid |
6/23/2005 4:24 PM | remove |
True, but most people keep well away from the tracks. In our case, we make a mini-database of train times for that day, to avoid trains. The drivers can very easily radio the transport police!
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| Posted by lost |
6/24/2005 1:03 AM | remove |
Rail tracks fair enough, but railway property? I made the mistake of looking for a point of entry into a derelict distillery on railway property and got threatened with arrest. Walking away and calmly explaining that there's no trespassing laws in Scotland and I wasn't causing a disturbance to the (English) rail employee worked a charm though.
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| Posted by IIVQ |
6/28/2005 6:39 PM | remove |
In the Netherlands they have a far worse thing than arrest: they charge you with losses of driving 5km/h. When you do that on a busy strech, they can charge you with EUR 1.000.000.
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| Posted by Corvid |
6/28/2005 9:47 PM | remove |
I though the £2000 fine over here was bad!
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| Posted by lost |
7/1/2005 10:12 PM | remove |
One million Euros? :-o
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| Posted by purplegrum |
7/2/2005 11:00 AM | remove |
That's like £675K!
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| Posted by IIVQ |
7/2/2005 11:29 AM | remove |
Yep. They did that once with a guy who entered the Willemsspoortunnel (Rotterdam). He was in there for 20 minutes and about 20 trains had a delay. They charged him bigtime, but I don't know the actual outcome.
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| Posted by IIVQ |
7/2/2005 11:34 AM | remove |
BTW the normal charges in NL are:
EUR 25 for walking on or next to the tracks, EUR 50 for biking and EUR 65 for walking a dog.
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| Posted by Corvid |
7/2/2005 1:43 PM | remove |
Thats not bad!
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| Posted by purplegrum |
7/2/2005 1:53 PM | remove |
Thing is, I walk on the tracks and they charge me €1,000,000 - there is no way in hell that i'll ever be able to repay them that amount of money. Just silly.
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| Posted by Corvid |
7/2/2005 3:59 PM | remove |
How the hell are you going to pay €1,000,000!
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| Posted by lost |
7/2/2005 6:22 PM | remove |
Over a lifetime? Maybe the EUR1,000,000 fine is for companies who disrupt the rail traffic as opposed to individuals.
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| Posted by Slickis |
8/2/2005 5:33 AM | remove |
Thats INSANE. We have tresspass laws here but it's still legal to walk down the damn railroad tracks. geez!
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