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Old March 14th 05, 05:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport
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Default Pay & Display Machines

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:04:27 +0000, JohnB wrote:


Wasn't the idea to stick some paper or a rag up the coin exit so it
stopped refunds being returned, then come back to the machine later,
remove the 'plug' and gather one's booty.

Not that i would ever condone such irresponsible behaviour.


I seem to recall that BT had this problem with some of their payphones
back in the 1980s.

There was a particular type of pay phone that had a plastic flap that
could be jammed up to trap any returned money. BT altered the design
of some of the flaps on the pay phones.

Graham