ok here is story when i was in Switzerland i got in the bus but i lost my ticket and the cops asked me for ticket but i told them i lost it and they told me thats fine but next time be careful ! i left Switzerland almost a year ago , couple months ago my friend told me the cops sent you ticket and fine for 70CHF ! i left Switzerland in very emergency situation so even i didnt announce i am leaving ! and i left from Milano so i am not sure but will i get problem if i back to Switzerland!

Did they get your details?

Yeah they asked me for my name and my address but they said we are not going to send you fine !

Clearly they lied, or you misunderstood. Quite why you'd expect to be let off I don't know, but it's not the way things work here. I suggest you just pay up the fine and put it down to experience.

Oh, and why post about it here - do you expect sympathy, advise or derision?

I hope so...

Another one headed out to Guantanamo. Still, it's warmer than Switzerland at this time of year.

I have been fined loads of times on the bus and train, but i am a chancer.

I have always paid without complaints and you should do the same, its a great public transport service they offer here so accept it and be careful not to lose tickets in future

And it is great due to paying customers... If everyone "chances it", do you think the service will be any good? Time to pay for a service you choose to use. Please.

BuggedSee

I think the service would be even better, i have definitly spent more on fines than i would have spent on tickets.

And by the way, i only chanced it if i had forgotten to take money, not had enough on me or was running too late to buy a ticket. I have paid my dues.

I later decided on a GA so this wouldnt happen, what happened? I took the train from Lenzburg to zurich at 00:30 not realised it was a night train with "Nachtzuschlag" and got fined again

Why does this not surprise me.

Guys it seems u missed my point ! i m not in Switzerland anymore even i have not received any paper that say i should pay fine ! otherwise i don't care about 70CHF .. this is what my home owner told me and they said because i left Switzerland they even didn't keep NOTICE paper and they threw it away ! and this story backs to almost one year ago !

Its up to you what you do but is it worth the hassle of not paying and them coming after you with a bigger fine? Why not just pay up, its over and done with and you can come back without worrying you are going to be hung, drawn and quartered at immigration upon arrival.

Maybe you should contact the town hall that you were registered with to explain the circumstances and let them know why you didnt de-register yourself.

If you give them a forwarding address then it would mean that they can contact you there if the SBB take it further with a claim for the money allowing you to pay it. If you dont, it could mean that you get registered in debt in switzerland without even knowing it.

Pay to whom ! I am not in Switzerland , I dont know how much fine is that ! i am really willing to pay ! i love Switzerland and i really respect their rules ! but this case is so complicated that s why i am asking you guys because i have no idea ! i am afriad in my way back to Switzerland i face some stupid fine like 100000CHF , however as i told you i have never received any paper just my friend told me and even at that time the paper was sent to my old address i evacuated that place and i left it to US , i was not in Switzerland anymore so how can i pay for it ! this is my problem !

Why not call the bus company that issued the fine?

It was pretty stupid of your friend to open your letter, throw it away then tell you that you need to pay a fine

Do you know what bus you were on? why not call the information line of that company and ask them

Tupac, FYI, you don't need an exclamation mark at the end of each sentence. If you use one all the time, it devalues it. HTH.

I am not sure , but it was normal buses in Lugano !

Ok, perhaps you're feeling a little stressed and worried and are not reading the replies carefully... but in the post just above this TonyBhoy seems to have given you some very clear practical advice about what to do. Maybe you missed it so I'll post it here:

Also, please don't take this the wrong way, but sentences in English start with a capital letter, and there are other ways of ending a sentence apart from an exclamation mark.

Your posts would be much easier to read if you took time to structure them a little. I wouldn't be surprised if some people didn't bother to respond because it's slightly off-putting to read a post that is all one paragraph with poor punctuation.

How dare the police ask Tupac for his ticket? remember that song n**** I hit em up??