SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco transit worker is in trouble for giving a needy teenager free BART tickets to get to school.

     

Sixty-five-year-old Daly City station agent Jim Stanek faces a personnel hearing on Friday and he's been told he may be forced to retire.

     

Stanek says he gave the teen $300 worth of paid, unused tickets left behind by Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters. Those tickets are usually thrown away.

     

The 16-year-old boy's father died last year and his grandparents took him into their Oakley home. He was having trouble at a Hercules school so the grandparents enrolled him in San Francisco's Flex Academy.

     

But it costs $200 a month from the Pittsburg station to San Francisco and the grandparents had trouble affording the fares.

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