:eek: Wow. Was that guy not looking where he was going? Because he nailed the toll booth dead on.
Damn, looks like an effective way to display your displeasure with the toll system.
We just got some toll roads in the Austin area and, despite my misgivings about toll roads in general, bought into the electronic pass scheme. I must say I’m impressed. The toll roads really speed up some of my trips because I’m the only schmuck that uses them. So I have been experimenting on just how fast I can fly through the toll plaza and still not get a ticket. So far, 85 mph is A-OK.
That sounds more like it to me. I do recall, the Jersey Tollboths actually had little envelopes so you could mail in your payment if you did not have the change. Those are long gone now.
Jim
Last time that was posted here I did a little checking up, and I believe the driver had a seizure.
Edit: Now I’m not so sure. It seems nobody’s certain now.
Well, at one point a few years ago, NTTA (North Texas Tollroad Authority) did not have their IT shit straight, and in a fog of idiocy, thought that it was perfectly ok to not actually get hold of the counties in question(or even the State!) and update their licence plate records as people re-registered their cars and got new plates.
I got bit by this one back then- I started to wonder why I hadn’t got a bill lately. Granted, I was in grad school and didnt’ take toll roads often, but in the intervening time, I’d surely driven enough to incur one automatic bill.
Before I called them, I got a $500 bill in the mail, since my car was “unidentified” or some other stupid stuff, and they weren’t lining up the toll tag with the car. I was informed that this was because I hadn’t notified them that I’d got new plates a few months earlier.
Luckily, they waived the penalties and fees, and I was only on the hook for $44 dollars, just like I’d expected before it all went down.
I wonder if something similar isn’t happening to the OP…
Apologies in advance for the completely useless post, but was I the only one who thought of Roger (the regretfully tiger-striped mascot of Comcast Digital Voice) when reading the title of this OP?
“Toll evasion? I have E-ZPass!”
“Sorry Absolute, you a felon now.”
Was the movie “The Godfather”? Not all of them are like that.
I was driving in Florida and ran three in one day. I didn’t have any change and the tolls were automated. I heard that you could get three before you were sent a ticket. I don’t know if that is true but nothing has ever come of it and I don’t live there anyway.
With apologies for getting this thread further off-track, I was convinced this video was a fake until I read the associated articles. I mean, a couple of cars in the video clearly kept driving through the toll booth after the car makes impact and basically explodes. Who the hell does that?!?
And that has to be one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever watched. I take some small solace in the assumption that it was an instantaneous death.
DING DING DING
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
What am I supposed to do? I’d probably just keep going, as well. There’s a cop on the scene, no need to hang about.
I do. It’s on fire, man. I wanna get far away, and driving through does that for me.
I don’t know…I guess my instinct would have been to stop and see if I could help, although obviously there was no help to be had in that particularly situation. But apparently I’m in the minority.