Man Jailed Over 50-Cent Toll

The Boston Channel ^ | September 15, 2007 | NA

[Mercat]

im on wifi on my laptop in Boston but google wikipedia MTA song. oddly enough, i’m visiting my son Charlie here and the pass on the public transportation system is the charlie card.

[dforest]

Geez, a man gets jailed for using a 50 cent token, illegal aliens violate laws everyday and are allowed to roam free.

[OCCASparky]

Like I said--another whiny Ma$$hole who was hiding under a rock for a couple of years and thought he could pull a fast one.

Lemme ask you this--you ever travel up here? It's pretty plain when the signs say NO TOKENS ACCEPTED!

What probably happened is this tool paid his toll (in cash) at Hampton and Dover, got caught short in cash, and figured he'd pull a fast one.

Mass is the same way--oh, and BTW--Fast Pass and EZ Pass are compatable with each other. If he had either of those, no problem. There were many PSA's, radio and television commercials, and notices at the toll plazas that tokens would not be sold past 9-1-05, and not accepted past 12-31-05. IOW, he had that 3 month window to use them. Tell ya what--try using a 50-year old NYC subway token today and see how far you get. Due dilligence.

And your analogy of the $10 gold piece is WAY, WAY off. Nice non-sequitur tho.

[OCCASparky]

Toll roads are unconstitutional.

Then don't drive them.

I drive this road because although I could get home by alternate means (and have done so in the past) it does take longer. This guy could have taken NH-125 from Haverhill, Mass all the way up to Exit 12 of the Spaulding Turnpike (AFTER the Rochester toll) and taken his little trip up to Wolfeboro, Ossipee, Conway, or wherever he wants to go.

And given the tolls in Mass, WTF is HE complaining about? Everytime I have to go to Logan Airport, I've got two choices: Pay the $2.50 toll (with EZ Pass) to go across the Tobin Bridge, or sit in traffic on all the roundabouts from Hwy 1 down through the road construction site that is Revere. We haven't increased our tolls in nearly 20 years.

[Homer1]

It’s the state of New Hampshire that pulled a fast one here. What gives them the right to dishonor their end of the contract?

[OCCASparky]

Look at it this way—why is it some people buy gift certificates as presents for others and if the recipient does not use them in a timely manner, the store/company in question charges fees or stipulates a time in which they must be used? Where’s your outrage there? This seems like a similar case.

[spunkets]

Your post is empty. The NJ turnpike authority had an obligation to honor the tokens they sold. No State, person, or corporation can sidcharge it's debts by declaring them void. All they can accomplish by doing that is to declare themselves morally bankrupt, which is what the RINOs and Governor of NJ did.

"50 y/o NY subway tokens... And your analogy of the $10 gold piece is WAY, WAY off. Nice non-sequitur tho."

No. Also pre-Civil War stocks are good and must be honored.

[OCCASparky]

Not if the stocks are worthless. BTW—a $10 gold piece has WAY more than $10 in gold at current market rates, and let’s not even go into the collectible issue (just ask OJ on the other thread).

[spunkets]

"gift certificates as presents for others and if the recipient does not use them in a timely manner, the store/company in question charges fees or stipulates a time in which they must be used?"

They have expiration dates printed on each one. The courts generally don't back them and the States have passed explicit laws against them. The courts view it as a swindle. There was no expiration date given with the NJ tokens. It was made up when they pulled it out of their country club butts.

Oh look! NH bans expiration dates on gift certificates less than $100.

[spunkets]

"Not if the stocks are worthless.

The stock is good as long as the Co. still exists.

"BTW—a $10 gold piece has WAY more than $10 in gold at current market rates,

The monitary value is $10. The value of the metal it's made from can be more, as in a penny. It's value otherwise is whatever someone will pay for it.

[verity]

Perhaps you can represent the old fool at any future hearing. lol

[spunkets]

I don’t think he’s an old fool. He’s just a “little guy” that got screwed by disreputable’s in govm’t that refuse to honor their obligations.

[OCCASparky]

Over fifty cents, people. Fifty freakin cents. Does the term "perspective" mean anything?

I love how out-of-staters somehow know all about this case yet the local guy is somehow in the wrong.

Unbelievable.

[spunkets]

"Over fifty cents, people. Fifty freakin cents. Does the term "perspective" mean anything?"

DOes the word honor mean anything to you. They jailed an old man over $0.5 for 3 days. First they took his money, then threw him in jail after they refused to honor their committment. Perspective my ass.

"I love how out-of-staters somehow know all about this case yet the local guy is somehow in the wrong."

Swindlers always hate it when folks expose their con. They always attack the person of one doing so, they're either outside agitators, or local malcontents.

"Unbelievable."

Nah, it's been going on since the beginning of time. Just the particulars of the con and enforcer change.

[the final gentleman]

This is a free country, ozzymandus and OCCASparky, and you two had a choice and you chose to comment.
Then you had another choice. You could have said either ...

1) I admire this man for standing up for what he believes.
Or...
2) This man is stupid because he went to jail for such a petty thing.

Well we all know what you said — you called the man a fool — but we don’t know why you bothered to say it.
Do you care to tell us?

[trickyricky]

"google wikipedia MTA song"

Don't need to.
I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday,
but I can remember every word to every song I listened to as a kid.