Should I appeal?

[dubstepper]

Got a £25 fine from TFL. I had an oyster on me, but borrowed my friend Robin's child oyster to get on bus for free. Unfortunately TFL officers jumped on bus and scanned everyones oysters. I gave them my adult oyster (which had money on) and because it wasn't the oyster I used to get on the bus with they said they had to confiscate it and give me a fine. Luckily, the officer was a nice guy and I made up some excuse that I was wearing my mates jacket and had accidentally used his oyster. He said that I may be able to appeal.

tldr; £25 fine for using wrong oyster card (increased to £50 on the 18th) should I appeal or is it not worth it? I might lose the appeal and have to pay double...

HELP!

mate i don't understand why you would use some1s childs oyster card to get a free ride when you had money on ya own card
i mean how much would you have stood to save? bout 2quid? hmmmmmmmmmm i thinks not in a muggy way but you derserve the fine in my opinion.
that said i do think they should at least give ya 3 strikes each time just making you paying the cost of the journey then on or after the 3rd then fine ya.
fingers crossed on not having to pay the fine.
if you get away with it then you shoukld use that £25 to either get pissed or buy a lil tart for an hour or so

you mad
fuck paying for travel, get that shit fo freeeeeeeee

yeh Coppola thought he was getting that shit free too.
but like the saying goes, nothing in life is free

[abelard]

pay it, then use free child card another 12 times = even

[flopps]

Confiscating your card is way over the top.

[Coppola]

Got a £25 fine from TFL. I had an oyster on me, but borrowed my friend Robin's child oyster to get on bus for free. Unfortunately TFL officers jumped on bus and scanned everyones oysters. I gave them my adult oyster (which had money on) and because it wasn't the oyster I used to get on the bus with they said they had to confiscate it and give me a fine. Luckily, the officer was a nice guy and I made up some excuse that I was wearing my mates jacket and had accidentally used his oyster. He said that I may be able to appeal.

tldr; £25 fine for using wrong oyster card (increased to £50 on the 18th) should I appeal or is it not worth it? I might lose the appeal and have to pay double...

HELP!

mate i don't understand why you would use some1s childs oyster card to get a free ride when you had money on ya own card
i mean how much would you have stood to save? bout 2quid? hmmmmmmmmmm i thinks not in a muggy way but you derserve the fine in my opinion.
that said i do think they should at least give ya 3 strikes each time just making you paying the cost of the journey then on or after the 3rd then fine ya.
fingers crossed on not having to pay the fine.
if you get away with it then you shoukld use that £25 to either get pissed or buy a lil tart for an hour or so

you mad
fuck paying for travel, get that shit fo freeeeeeeee

yeh Coppola thought he was getting that shit free too.
but like the saying goes, nothing in life is free

I'm 17 and every resident in London under 18 gets free bus travel. Why should I have to pay? All of my friends that live there do. We get like at least 6 buses a day and if it's £1 for every bus trip on a normal oyster why should I pay £8 when they pay £0.

How to fuck can they double the fine if you appeal? That's a load of shit, the whole point of appealing it to appeal, and explain your side of the story, they listen, and worst thing that can happen is they'll make you pay the fine, they CANNOT increase the fine, that's ludicrous!

No, you misunderstood. they double the fine on the 18th November whether I appeal or not.


it actually didn't enter my mind to pay and then appeal. Thats what I'm gonna do.