Hare beware!

When I was looking at the ppl who check tickets in S-bahn, my only reaction was always: "ну чесне слово, як діти" (c) анекдот. A passenger without a ticket can always easily avoid the check, if he/she is not deaf and blind. However they always get 2-3 fines per train carriage. Why? Because there are usually that many ppl (on average) who genuinely think they have a valid ticket, but they don't. (Just lost it recently/have a wrong ticket type.)

But now it looks like the happy days for free-S-bahn-riders are over.

Yesterday I saw a real change in the tactics of ticket checking. A group of ppl in civilian clothes (not in S-bahn uniform as usual) entered an eastward S2 train on Ostbahnhof. Then they spread along the train and stood still until Berg Am Laim. Right after the doors were closed, they acted all together: each urged a passenger standing nearby to show a ticket, and then quickly proceeded to a next one.

Hare beware!