Backdooring Underhanded Low-Life Stealing High Entrance-Exit Turnstiles

Also, a great way to balance any tenuous budget:

Most subway riders can quickly navigate through a revolving-door, ceiling-to-floor turnstile. It’s a simple enough maneuver: Swipe the MetroCard, step straight ahead, push the bars forward.

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But the cagelike contraptions can bamboozle less experienced travelers into paying the $2.25 fare twice — an apparently unintended consequence of the design that doesn’t seem to trouble the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

“These are the biggest robbers down here,” one transit worker said as he repaired a high entrance-exit turnstile, or HEET, in the Union Square station.