As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)

Re:As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (... by cerebellum42 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @09:59AM (#20574453)

I suspect you bought a ticket that can be made active any time, so you could buy it in advance if you wanted. To make the ticket "active" you have to stamp it using the pillar thing with the automatic date stamp at the station. Common mistake, but understandable you got an earful because you might as well be pretending you didn't know how things worked and are actually just riding again and again using the same pretend-ticket.

Similar with bringing a bottle of a brand that the store sells into the store - how are they supposed to know if you brought it in or if you just took it in the store and opened it there on the way to the cash register? (which, by the way, is not super uncommon either and generally tolerated)

German police are not allowed to collect fines on the spot, it's a corruption prevention measure.

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Re:As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (... by jotm on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:20PM (#20579152)

Oh, I see what you mean. Pretty sure it had a date and time on it, so it could not have been used for more than a day, if that.

Yes, kind of my bad with the bottle, but it was half empty and was like 50 cents anyway.

You could limit collecting fines by card I guess, the payment would go to the authorities.

Just seems like such small infractions aren't worth the stress, there's operations raking in millions tax free that could be worked on.

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