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"I just bought this ticket before I got on the train, your machines must be wrong" (Customer with an out-of-date ticket)
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I find this an interesting one having fallen victim to a similar incident myself in The Netherlands.
In my case, I was supposed to get fined, but I was so determined about it that I made the inspector return to the machine (I was still on the platform waiting for my train) to prove that the machine was issuing tickets with the wrong date.
Had I been stopped later in my journey, I'm not sure what I could have done, short of pointing out that the ticket was in fairly pristine condition for one that was supposedly issued in 1970.
So, while that kind of incident doesn't happen often, it can happen.
As for me, I check my ticket when it's issued now.