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Posted on 02/19/2012 5:05:59 PM PST by NoLibZone
A recovering addict in New Jersey racked up $120,000 in unpaid tolls and fines for his mother after he used her car to buy drugs.
"I used to take her car to [New York City] to buy drugs," a contrite Peter Davis said. He claims to be a recovering addict and living with his mom in an Englewood, N.J., apartment.
It is actually his mother, 75-year-old Jean Davis, who is shamed on the Port Authority's website as owing the most money of any scofflaw.
But on Saturday, Peter Davis admitted that he is the one who racked up the debt, by using her Ford Focus for years to blow through tolls on numerous trips to Manhattan to get high.
"When you're addicted like that, you don't think of the consequences. You have other things on your mind," the 52 year old said.
Thanks to his many drug junkets, his mom is in the hole for $21,365 in unpaid tolls and has accrued $102,141 in fines -- a sum that continues to grow.
"If I could have killed him and gotten away with it, I would have," retired data processor Jean Davis said.
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$21,365 in unpaid tolls.
Let’s say it was over a 5 year period.
One has to pay $4,000 a year to travel to NYC!
Give NYC to the Palestinians.
Now THAT'S what you call "Tough Love!"
Just tell them it was a late term abortion. It'll fly.
Just try it, asshole.
..then NUKE it.
“Give NYC to the Palestinians.”
I think they already own it..
That’s why so many people live in NYC.
They dare not leave and risk passing a toll booth.
The GW Bridge toll alone is 12 bucks.
What is the Verazzano Narrows Bridge up to now?
Perhaps the Verazzano narrows one’s wallet.
They win. I just looked it up: $13
Holy crap!
It’s an awesome bridge and I’d like to cross it but $13 is a bit steep.
How sweet. A 52 year old guy who still lives off his mom. And a mom who still enables him.
If you actually pay cash for the tolls, a round trip either above or below the Hudson river runs $12. When you "blow through" a toll plaza without paying, they photograph your plates and bill you what I can only assume is a HUGE fine.
Mark
The toll to/from Staten Island is $6.50, but the Verazzano is a $13 one way toll.
Mark
“Give NYC to the Palestinians.”
Makes the movie “Escape from New York” sound plausible.
The problem is you couldn’t give it away, you would have
to pay some one to haul it off.
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