Friday, January 20, 2023

New York made an effort to crack down on toll violations, and found one particular idiot, who hasn't bothered to register his vehicle, another idiot was found to have skipped past $57,000 in tolls, that have now caught up to him. It's probably cheaper for him to get a new car.


On one single day last week, MTA Bridges and Tunnels officers nabbed a grand total of 21 violators – 17 of whom were stopped on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. 

 As for one Ford Mustang driver caught in the bust – a 30-year-old – he was also driving sans registration, which only added to his list of transgressions

Those officers discovered that this bunch had racked up a whopping $400,000 in unpaid tolls and fines over the years, and wound up issuing 28 summonses to the offenders. Their vehicles were impounded too.

A Mazda CX-5 that was stopped during the crackdown, had more than 500 violations dating back to May 2021, which adds up to a whopping $57,000 in unpaid tolls.

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  1. userbronco2:10 PM

    If the car has no license plates, how can they prove in court that its the same car ?
    the amount owed is not the amount of tolls they skipped, its with all the fees and penalty's added on.
    and is impounding their car even legal? its basically stealing, BEFORE the person has been convicted of a non violent non crime

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    1. Jesse2:36 PM

      I don't have an answer, the source article doesn't say, but, I expect that the writer meant that it's not "currently" registered, and they can use cameras to indicate that the same driver, as the guy they busted driving it, has been through the toll booths without paying, and that the car does belong to him. I'm not a fan of any police, and especially NYPD, but I haven't heard yet of them falsifying toll booth charges to screw with people.

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