Shameless female fare evader gets STUCK under gates while trying to ride San Francisco's BART train for free 24%
By Alexa Cimino16%
7/7/2026, 4:11:46 PM
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A woman's attempt to sneak into a San Francisco BART station without paying ended in embarrassment after she became trapped beneath one of the transit system's newly installed security gates.
Footage of the mishap, shared by the Instagram account @bartactivities, shows the woman lying face down on the ground with her upper body wedged beneath the gate as she struggles to free herself.
The person recording the incident, who appears to be a BART employee, can be heard saying: 'This is terrible.'
The woman then turns her head to look back at the employee filming her while still pinned beneath the barrier.
The second BART worker tells her: 'You could have just asked us,' suggesting staff may have been willing to help if she had been unable to pay the fare instead of trying to bypass the gate.
'Yeah, I know,' the woman replies dejectedly.
The second employee then says, 'Ah, well, do your thing, ma'am.
Have a good night,' before walking away from the scene.
Moments later, the employee filming the incident tells the woman: 'We can't even open it with you there.
That's the crazy part.
We can't even open it without harming you,' as she remains stuck beneath the gate.
The video ends before the woman is freed, and it is unclear how she was eventually removed from beneath the barrier.
The clip racked up nearly one million views and 1,400 reposts on Instagram, where commenters joked that the new gates appeared to be doing exactly what they were designed to do.
'It probably would've been easier to just pay the fare,' one person wrote.
Another quipped: 'The new gates are working as intended.'
Several commenters also mocked the woman's failed attempt to crawl under the barrier, joking that her backside was to blame.
'The cake ain't letting it slide,' one person wrote.
According to SFist, the incident happened at either the Powell Street or the Montgomery Street station in downtown San Francisco.
BART Director Liz Ames later told NBC she hoped the woman was uninjured but added that she also hoped she was cited for fare evasion.
Ames said the transit agency's redesigned fare gates have already led to a sharp drop in fare evasion and crime while generating roughly $10 million in additional revenue.
At that pace, she said, the system's $90 million investment could recover its cost in fewer than 10 years.
Former BART director Debora Allen also applauded the upgrade, calling it one of the agency's most successful improvements in decades.
The full-height barriers are being rolled out across the rail network as part of a four-year modernization project designed to stop riders from slipping through or jumping over the old gates.
The Daily Mail has reached out to BART for comment.
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