We had a yoof who didn't respond to increasingly loud attempts by a WAGN
ticket inspector to wake him up on the 10:15 Cruiser from Cambridge to
King's Cross the other day. He was so deeply asleep (or successful at
giving that impression) that the inspector arranged to stop the train at
Stevenage and call an ambulance for fear that he was unconscious. Luckily
WAGN inspectors have long carried mobile phones.

The ambulance crew eventually revived the guy. He was handed over the
transport police when he claimed to have no ticket or money. Meanwhile the
rest of the train's passengers were tipped out into the 10:31 ex-Cambridge
and arrived half an hour late at the Cross having stood all the way from
Stevenage.

I hope the courts were not lenient with him.

If they tried to wake them by shaking (or touching) them could they make the
excuse that they thought they were unconscious and were trying to bring them
out of it?
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