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http://www.euronews.com/2018/05/21/free-public-transport-across-estonia
Estonia is set to implement free transport for its residents across much of the country as of July 1. The free fare zone will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Estonia is already a world leader in free public transit: In 2013, all public transit in its capital, Tallinn, became free to local residents (but not tourists or other visitors, even those from other parts of the country). The new national free-ride scheme will extend this model even further, making all state-run bus travel in rural municipalities free and extending cost-free transit out from the capital into other regions.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
-- Fred Allen
(Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday May 24 2018, @01:15PM (6 children)
That's the problem with pickapockets, no? You don't see 'em.
You get to dinner and suddenly discover you can't pay for your dinner!
Then comes the nightmare of replacing all those cards and other documents governments and businesses require you to keep handy.
( I question highly why I am still required to carry a driver license or auto registration. Any patrolman pulling me over has instant radio access to that same information, and my DMV photo. All I am doing by having that info on me is making it available to the pickapockets. I don't mind losing the store loyalty cards so much... all the info they have on me is bogus anyway. )
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:09PM (4 children)
Bingo.
However, it's not that hard to avoid being pickpocketed. Just make it too hard/risky for them to reach your valuables - e.g. put your wallet in the pocket of tightly fit jeans or in a small purse lined with a thin metallic mesh hung by your neck under your shirt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:26PM (1 child)
Keep an enraged mutant ferret in your trousers at all times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @03:19PM
Had one when younger; it sorta died though, now it's useful only for excretion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @04:36AM (1 child)
College GF picked my wallet out of my back pocket one day while we were walking down a hall. Ever since then I've kept my wallet in a front pocket. Side advantage, I'm not sitting on that fat lump.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 25 2018, @04:46AM
It's not a side advantage, it's actually two advantages, front and back:
- the back advantage - no longer sitting on a fat lump
- the front advantage - next time your GF slips her hand in the front pocket, at least you'll get this advantage in exchange for you wallet
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @03:05PM
I question anyone who demands a license.
When I had the gas connected for this place I rang the company to start the account. They wanted name address dob drivers license. . So I said "what? I have to get a drivers license to connect the gas so I can have hit water?" After some stuffing around she created my account without it.
Since then I have learned that they collect the info to do a background check because the see having a energy account as bring a type of finance. Fuck em.