Well you're right, once the crime (even if it is fairly petty) has been committed, there's no way to step in and purchase the ticket after the fact, it's just that it was sad to see how unsympathetic the patrol people were to her plight. If my family had not purchased a ticket, I still feel like we still would have been treated better than they treated her, they were pretty rough with her and she was already in a lot of distress. There has just got to be a better way.