Don't mess with the big man! Moment furious passenger threw a foul-mouthed ticket-dodger off the train
- Teenage 'fare dodger' Sam Main, 19, comes forward to defend his behaviour, saying he did have the right ticket and was 'manhandled' by the 'big man'
This is the moment a foul-mouthed rail fare cheat was on the receiving end of some rough justice, after being bundled off a train by a passenger.
Footage of the teenage troublemaker being thrown off a train by a fed-up fellow traveller on the ScotRail service between Edinburgh and Perth has become a viral hit after being uploaded to You Tube.
It begins when a conductor is told the teenager doesn't have a ticket and tells the driver of the train to stop until the youngster gets off.
When the youth refuses a shouting match ensues until a passenger, later referred to as 'the big man' leaps to his feet and frogmarches him off the train - and keeps pushing him off when he repeatedly tries to re-board the service.
A two-and-a-half minute video clip - ‘Scotrail No Ticket’ - was posted three days ago and has already been viewed almost 200,000 times.
'I WAS MANHANDLED': INCREDIBLE CLAIMS OF TEEN PASSENGER
'Fare dodging' passenger Sam Main, 19, has defended his behaviour after being tracked down by a local paper.
He told the Edinburgh Record: ‘I had been out celebrating after an exam and I was half asleep on the train.
‘I did have a ticket but I must have handed over the wrong one to the conductor. The next thing I know this big guy is manhandling me to the door and throwing me off.
University student Sam, who is studying surveying, added: ‘I couldn’t believe it when the footage turned up on YouTube.'
He said he still has cuts and bruises over his cheeks (pictured above) and legs.
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