Occasionally ticket inspectors would come to Westmead Station. This event\u00a0occurred\u00a0when I was returning from the shops to my flat. It\u00a0occurred\u00a0some time in the between the years 2000 and 2005.<\/p>\n
I walked up to the station up the ramp from the north west. I could head this woman screaming. She was saying things like “Let me go you fucking bastards!” As I rounded the corner onto the main concourse across the train tracks there was this woman pinned to the ground by a transit ticket\u00a0inspection\u00a0officer. She was\u00a0screaming\u00a0out, but as far as I could see\u00a0making\u00a0no serious attempt to escape. She was probably in her early thirties. \u00a0I seriously\u00a0contemplated\u00a0whipping out the mobile phone, but decided not to. From further along the concourse came the sound of running and a small girl in hysterics. As I passed the woman pinned to the ground, I could now see to where the ticket validating machines are located. Here there was a girl, perhaps 9 years old. She was crying hysterically, wanting her mother to be let go. Another ticket inspection officer was trying, in a\u00a0hopeless\u00a0attempt, to calm her down. I walked past this too. As I\u00a0descended\u00a0the steps leading off the\u00a0concourse, there was a woman perhaps in her 40’s wearing a knee length skirt and a third ticket checking officer. As I approached the man said to her, you are under arrest. The woman leaned with her back against the wire mesh fence and sank to the ground with a pained groan. Still I continued on my way back to my flat.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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