Swiss Railways Jobsworth's

Swiss Railways have withdrawn on board ticket sales from their trains and as a result have a lot of disgruntled customers. Petty rules are being imposed on customers who are finding out-of-order ticket machines at stations. Ticket inspectors who possess no common sense are issuing high fines with no discretion or consideration being shown.
As an example someone used a credit card via a mobile phone to buy a ticket on the station platform where the ticket machine wasn't working. They were fined because the formal payment for the ticket from the credit card company arrived just four minutes after the train left the station, meaning that the ticket was technically bought on the train - and that is not allowed.

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Link from Tony Wilson