Big man throws fare dodging scrote off train

[Dedworth]

Kelvin Mackenzie with some common sense comments about the germ and his excuse of a father

Could I urge you, if you haven’t already done so, to go on to YouTube and watch the actions of a modern-day hero?

Alan Pollock did what I have always wanted to do but lacked the courage. He threw a drunken, swearing, fare-dodging student off the train so the rest of the passengers could get home in peace.

And thanks to the fact that we all have the ability to become TV film-makers these days by using our mobile phones, the incident has been given a wide airing and has been recorded for posterity.

As a commuter, I always marvel at the courtesy of ticket inspectors when they face loutish behaviour. I couldn’t take that kind of thing without responding physically and would have lasted a nanosecond if confronted in such a manner.

Train companies specifically train their employees not to respond. In this case, 19-year-old Sam Main, who admitted he was drunk, didn’t have a valid ticket for his journey between Edinburgh and Polmont.

He argued for ten minutes with the ticket collector while the train was stationary (on a train ten minutes at standstill is a lifetime), saying he had given a ScotRail employee the ‘****ing ticket’ and the like.

Finally, Mr Pollock, a burly chap, got up from his seat and grabbed the oik, pulled him down the carriage and then dumped him out of the door on to the platform to the cheers of other passengers. When I watched the clip on YouTube, I cheered, too.

Mr Main, a second-year surveying student at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, suffered some minor scratching to his face. Excellent.

He didn’t want to make much of the incident afterwards but his dim-witted father, Lenny, said Mr Pollock should face a court for assault.

Is it any wonder that there is a steep increase in this kind of behaviour with idiot parents like Mr Main senior?

If he wonders why his son is such an idiot, could I suggest he look in the mirror? The answer is looking back at him.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...#ixzz1gmtXe3wB

Elsewhere in the paper is a sickening report about the Transport Police investigating the affair & Scotrail suspending the ticket inspector :-

Hounding of a first-class hero: The banker who threw a foul-mouthed student off a train could end up in court

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1gmuNs7bv

[grahamw48]

I don't think you need to guess what my views are on this.

However, there was also a report on the radio this morning about a similar incident on a train, but with a more predictable outcome in this day and age.

Southern England, 2 or 3 youths asked to leave train for non-payment of fares.

Rail employee stabbed in back.

[tone]

Here you go - the "big man" got charged!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-fife-16288101

Stupid F'ing idiots...

[Dedworth]

Here you go - the "big man" got charged!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-fife-16288101

Stupid F'ing idiots...

It could only happen in UK 2011 - what an absolute farce

[joebloggs]

It could only happen in UK 2011 - what an absolute farce

i hope the police\cps drop any charges

[grahamw48]

What ever happened to 'not in the public interest' ?
...Or does that only apply to covering up the misdeeds and law-breaking of those supposedly running this country ?

[Dedworth]

What ever happened to 'not in the public interest' ?

Went down the pan Graham when Blair introduced Political Correctness and Human Rights

[jimcarie]

this is just typicle of the country we live in, a genuine bloke doing wat he thought was best at the time , now been charged for his act,

gone from hero to villain

thats why many take the mind your own buisness approach and turn a blind eye

[stevewool]

he should be awarded free travel , and the tw-t should be fined very heavy, for the foul langauge

[andy222]

He will get free travel. In the back of a cop car. Its beggars belief.

[stevewool]

in my days if you did wrong , you expect a clip around the ears, then when you got home and told your dad you get another one, did us no harm, yes we where buggers, but nothing like the yobs of today, i dont know what the answers is but manners are what is missing from todays people

[Terpe]

And now for some good news :-

'Big man' video: No charges over passenger thrown off train

Scottish authorities have decided not to prosecute a passenger who removed an alleged fare dodger from a train.

A mobile phone recording by a passenger on board the Edinburgh to Perth train on 9 December was viewed around the world on YouTube.

It showed Alan Pollock - since dubbed "Big man" - throwing 19-year-old Sam Main off a train after he argued with a ticket inspector.

The Crown Office said it was not in the public interest to prosecute the pair.

Two weeks after the incident, British Transport Police said a man had been charged over an alleged assault.

Mr Pollock, 35, from Stirling, was named as the man who removed Sam Main from the train at Linlithgow station.

Mr Main, from Falkirk, was not charged but was reported to the procurator fiscal for allegedly breaking the Criminal Justice and Licensing Scotland Act (2010), which relates to threatening or abusive behaviour.

However, the Crown Office now has no plans to proceed in either case.

Mr Pollock's father Jim, who lives in Wishaw, said he had not spoken to his son yet, but said the whole family would be delighted with the news.

He said: "It's been hanging over Alan's head for weeks and we're glad it's all over with."

Last week the train conductor who featured in the video returned to work.

It is understood Alan Mitchell, 63, had been on sick leave.

His employer First ScotRail would only say that Mr Mitchell had been on leave since the incident.

Source:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-fife-16954147

[grahamw48]

Sanity has prevailed.

[Dedworth]

Good news - I still hope the scrote gets a good hiding one dark night

[imagine]

there should be a medel for the big guy

[KeithD]

Even a medal

[imagine]

Even a medal

i stand corrected medal

[grahamw48]

Or just some sort of aword ?

[imagine]

im in shack and amazed , a spouser can speel