Guilt-ridden MBTA fare evader delivers apology letter, $300
Matthew Andrewes feels guilty for skipping out on his train fare so often as a young man.
So the 31 year-old is making good for it.
On June 9, he typed up an apology letter to the MBTA and placed it into an envelope with $300, reports The Boston Globe. He hand delivered the envelope to the ticket window at North Station.
“Several years ago, particularly when I was in my teens and early twenties, I used to try and avoid paying the train fare whenever I could,” Andrewes wrote in the letter. “I am so sorry. Please accept this money as compensation.”
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This type of thing has happened before, said Joe Pesaturo, MBTA spokesman, but not to this extent.
“The most ever received was $2.65,” Pesaturo told the Globe.
Read the full story in the Globe.
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