Because the only other alternative was to SWIM!
Now, you KNOW there are other alternatives. If she stood on her principles she'd have gone another way. If she had no principles to stand on...she deserves no sympathy.
In fact, everyone who submits to those procedures is complicit to some degree.
Make no mistake, I mean complicit in surrendering our precious liberty.
It's to save a little money or avoid a little inconvenience. Very little, compared to what is being betrayed and sacrificed.
In that situation, a person can always find a few extra pieces of silver for another means of transportation -- if they want to.