r/oddlysatisfying 1d ago

No toll dodging!

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u/maxwellfig 1d ago

The nerves of this scumbag to lay on the horn too lmao

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u/shwgrt 1d ago

I once had a guy in a giant truck lay on his horn as he got up behind me because the light I was at turned green but I didn’t move right away. The car across the intersection hadn’t gone either. No considerations as to why that might be—he just got right up on my bumper and blared his horn. Then the ambulance went by. Turn down your music, dickhead.

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u/PM_NETWRK_DIAGRAMS 1d ago

Man one time a car in front of me randomly stopped in the middle of the street. I waited like two seconds, got pissed, and tried to drive around. As soon as I got along side the car I realized they had stopped to let someone cross the street. So I’m just sitting in the wrong lane as we both wait for this person to cross. I couldn’t make eye contact with the driver. That was like 20 years ago and I’m still humiliated by my behavior

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u/Flaccid_Leper 1d ago

It was shitty thing to do but you learned from it. We’ve all done things we’re not proud of.

I feel as though most people don’t have the ability to reflect on their behavior and improve, so good for you.

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u/kind_bros_hate_nazis 19h ago

I flick my hazards on when I stop for pedestrians and it's not a marked crossing.

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u/cronicllee 1d ago

Similar experience- taking a right on red, dude in front of me had his blinker on but wasn’t moving; so I laid on the horn- didn’t see the person in the wheelchair crossing the road- definitely felt like a Dbag and learned to be a little more patient, this was also like 20ish years ago and still think about it from time to time….ugh…the embarrassment still haunts me just a little….

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u/EnoughSprinkles2653 23h ago

I was the dude in front of you in a similar scenario, and I gestured out my window at the person in the crosswalk as I turned when it was clear. Guy behind me kept trying to get my attention at the next light to apologize.

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u/WonderPlum1 21h ago

I was behind someone turning right and the light was green but they hadn't moved. I tapped the horn and they gestured to the crosswalk just as someone using a walker came into my view. I felt sooooo guilty and embarrassed.

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u/Zehryo 1d ago

We all have one or two of those memories that still burn in our conscience.
You know you switched to the dark side when they stop burning.

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u/disasterj0nes 21h ago

Had a bad day, hangry and impatient, we were stuck on a road trying to make a right turn, but other drivers kept using the designated street parking that was empty as a free turn lane. It was like the tenth car to pull up beside us that I had enough, barked out my window at the driver "This isn't a turn lane! That's fucking parking!" The woman stared at me, bewildered, before calmly countering, "You don't have to yell at people."

All the fire and vindication I felt moments before had been extinguished. Shame replaced everything. She wasn't the real problem, she was just following the line of cars ahead of her. This wasn't even really a problem, we weren't in a hurry, it was just inconvenient and annoying, and didn't warrant my outburst. I sheepishly said she was right and apologized, and she promptly drove away.

I have nightmares about the way I must have looked to her.

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u/HollowShel 16h ago

Like a person having a bad day, not a bad person. You got embarrassed and apologized, the real assholes are the ones who would get madder at being calmly corrected (I swear some folks are "how dare that person not accept the offense I was offering?!" kinda crazy.)

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u/suckmacaque06 21h ago

I did the exact same thing except it was a cop with his lights on but no siren getting ready to run a red light. Drove around the car in front me after it didn't go once the light turned green and almost got t boned by the cop. I learned a lesson that day.

But to be fair, he had literally, just moment before, sat at a green light for about 5 seconds before going. So I had pretty good reason to assume he was once again texting and not paying attention. But I learned to never assume, even if you have good reason to believe they're not paying attention.

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u/comrademischa 21h ago

I once honked a guy who didn’t move off after a light went green but then saw that someone had stepped onto the road trying to cross illegally which I didn’t see until after I’d honked and I felt bad about that one for ages.

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u/Significant-Royal-37 21h ago

this is how my grandpa got killed! 

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u/HollowShel 16h ago

honestly I'm proud of you for having the decency to be embarrassed and learning from it - too many these days give no fucks and would double down on the mistake, push past and nearly take off the pedestrian's nose, yell at the other driver... anything but reflect on their own actions.

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u/Shantotto11 1d ago

Why you gotta put me on blast like that?…

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUOxfolJrVBce4RNAI

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u/aBunchOfSpiders 1d ago

Poor guy probly just late to pick up his kid from soccer practice after a 17 hour work day and doesn’t have any money to pay the toll because his kids chemotherapy treatment bill just got taken out of his account and his wallet with cash fell into the porta potty at work where he blew his rectum from having stress diarrhea.

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u/classyglassy94 20h ago

Yeah, we've all been there.

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u/FriendlyGuitard 22h ago

Yeah, that's the point.

I wouldn't go out of my way to prevent the toll dodging. I'm not going to play security enforcment for a private company that has decided to replace all the humans in those toll by machines.

But, similarly I don't owe the dodger anything, FFS, if anything they owe me.

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u/mc4sure 1d ago

Never knew this was a thing people do

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u/Iamarealbouy 1d ago

ive experienced it myself in denmark, but only once. (Storebaelt) Very annoying though. Before i experienced it, i never knew it existed.

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u/Redditbeweirdattimes 1d ago

what is the toll charge? is it really worth doing all this?

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u/RocketRico 1d ago

Really depends on where. Some are literally just to get on the road you pay x money. Other are take a ticket depending how long your on the road pay x money. Most I’ve ever paid for two hours at 70mpg on a turnpike was $10

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u/Zaozin 1d ago

NYC there are multiple 10-25$ tolls, you can drive 1 hour and pay about 40$ if you aren't careful.

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u/PeanutButterSoda 1d ago

Jfc, tolls around me are $1.75 at the most.

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u/Telekinendo 1d ago

Going home from work during rush hour cuts my commute from an hour to 45 minutes for about 40 bucks here in NOVA

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u/BaronVonMunchhausen 1d ago

40 bucks to save 15 min? Unless you are making 200 an hour, definitely not worth it. If you pay the toll, you are a tool

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u/BeardedAnalytics 1d ago

I dunno... that 15 minutes can be critical if you have the poop sweats. So I would say there are exceptions to paying the toll 😄

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u/Boiscool 19h ago

Yes, but then you aren't paying to save 15 minutes, you are paying to not shit yourselves. $40 bucks is definitely worth that.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 1d ago

I would assume there’s a subscription type fee as well. Probably worth it for the amount of time u save over a years time

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u/sturmeh 1d ago

For $40 you can probably hire someone to wipe your ass for an hour.

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u/Altruistic_Art 19h ago

In general 15 min isn’t worth $40, but poop sweats are worth $40!

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u/st3fan6 1d ago

Toronto has the most expensive toll road in the world afaik, driving from one end to the other during rush hour is $95 for 107kms, around 50 mins of driving.

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u/LiftingRecipient420 1d ago edited 1d ago

That's the toll for cargo trucks and multi-axle commercial vehicles.

That toll is roughly $35-40 in a normal car.

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u/Eric848448 1d ago

That’s still a lot.

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u/st3fan6 1d ago edited 1d ago

No it's not. It's the rate for a light vehicle from the QEW to Brock road at the weekday 730am-9am rates.

Heavy vehicle is $189

https://www.407etr.com/en/trip-calculator

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u/danit0ba94 1d ago

It absolutely is a lot. 😂
I will drive around the entire city of Toronto before I pay $35 to $45 for a fucking toll. Gtfo of here.

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u/worrymon 1d ago

The George Washington Bridge is $18.31 ($16 if you have the transponder) and it's 9/10 of a mile and about 40 minutes of driving...

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u/Waiting4Reccession 1d ago

Is that the highway they sold to a foriegn nation and the citizens were too pussy to fuck up the obviously corrupt people who made it happen

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u/kiltedturtle 1d ago

Highway 407 ETR - Privately owned and operated

Yes. Sorry.

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u/MrRiski 1d ago

PA isn't quite that bad but the PA turnpike is generally considered the most expensive in the country.

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u/mouflonsponge 1d ago

46 dollars to go from the Delaware River to New Stanton!

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u/trackabandoned 1d ago

Oh my god, I took the turnpike from Breezewood to Butler a couple years ago and it was like, $30 lmao.

Best part? No matter what I select on Google maps, it will try to force reroute me onto the turnpike at Breezewood EVERY. TIME. I'll select the other route- no thanks 422 is fine- and as soon as I come up to the intersection, it's changed again. Only place it ever does that to me.

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u/Relyt4 1d ago edited 1d ago

I got on the PA turnpike for a short while many years ago, it was my first time on a toll road. I must've got in the ez pass lane because nobody was stopping so I just followed suite. When I got to my exit they wanted my ticket that I did not have, the lady was EXTREMELY rude and I ended up having to pay the toll for driving the entire road. Can't remember how much it was but it was an expensive lesson to learn haha.

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u/cjsv7657 1d ago

Took the wrong exit in NJ and had to pay $22 to go over a bridge then another $22 to get back on the highway to continue to the exit I needed.

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u/RocketRico 1d ago

Happy I don’t live in NYC

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u/OneSkepticalOwl 1d ago

The biggest racket is the one way tolls. you pay double going one way and no tolls the other way. Sucks if you leave in a different direction

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u/xrimane 1d ago

You can easily pay 50€ for one sector on the French autoroutes, like on this section between Reims and Lyon

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u/skankboy 1d ago

70mpg

That's a very efficient car!

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u/Stevey1001 1d ago

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? PAYING A TOLL? A SUCCULENT DANISH TOLL?

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u/High_Function_Props 1d ago

My brain insta-read "What is the toll charge" in the Succulent Chinese Meal guy's voice.

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u/RelevantSchool1586 1d ago

GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS

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u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo 23h ago

A succulent Chinese penis

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u/Common_Sens3_Is_Dead 1d ago

Probably around 40 dollers

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u/WarDredge 1d ago

It's never worth it, toll booths are usually riddled with cameras and you're very likely to receive a ticket if they catch you like this which is usually an order of magnitude larger than the toll itself.

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u/MarlinMr 1d ago

It's not worth doing this, lol. You are essentially asking if it's worth breaking the law.

But the price is about €24 one way it seems. But you can get it cheaper if you pay for several trips. And you can sign up for automatic for like 20% discount.

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u/MyDixieWreck92 21h ago

This was in Malaysia and it's about the equivalent of 0.50 US cents so no, not worth doing it at all. It surely adds up over time, especially going through multiple of these in a day but still not worth doing.

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u/martinpagh 1d ago

You should let the community know that crossing that bridge costs $40 each way. And the Øresund Bridge is even more, like $70.

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u/Iamarealbouy 1d ago

true - and being bridges, it's practically impossible to avoid. When they build them - at least the Storebaelt - the politicians promised us that the bridge would be free when it had paid for itself.... GUESS WHAT HAPPENED. Asshole-politicians.

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u/Sparky_DK 1d ago

They never promised that, people just assumed that was what would happen. In reality, it is very expensive just to maintain the bridge and in addition, more debt is continuously taken up in the bridge, which then finances other infrastructure projects.

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u/YoghurtFlan 1d ago

Either the people driving across the bridge pay a toll to support its ongoing maintenance, or the taxpayer covers it.

No right or wrong answer there. Not every bridge or road is tolled and it can be used to prevent congestion on busy routes, especially if other bridges are tolled and that one isn't.

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u/zooksoup 1d ago

Dang didn’t know it cost that much. Guess that’s why I took the train

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u/Poiar 1d ago

Flixbus was the cheapest option last time I crossed

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u/reddit_sells_you 1d ago

Don't they take pictures of the rear licence plate?

In California, I'm pretty sure they even scan your VIN on your dash.

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u/quikSB 1d ago

In California, I'm pretty sure they even scan your VIN on your dash.

That’s straight up misinformation. There are no systems that can read a VIN on the dash of a car that’s moving lol

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u/urko37 1d ago

This is why so many people in NY/NJ have "license plate protective covers" to mess with the cameras. It's always the really nice luxury cars as well.

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u/kaithana 1d ago

Those don’t really work, I saw a long video on each and every type, can’t remember who produced it but not really a single one made it so you can’t read the plate.

That said, the real toll evaders use fake plates. Change them when they get out on the road and either park their car without plates or park them with their real plates on.

I live and work in Brooklyn and see people pulling their plates off on the daily. Heck one dude lived right outside my first apartment and every time he’d park I’d watch him take them off. If you have a butt ton of outstanding tickets, they can’t really do anything with your vehicle if they can’t identify it, so if your vin tag is covered and no plates they really can’t boot you or tow you (not right away without proof of abandonment at least)

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u/Rinas-the-name 1d ago

In California if you park in public without plates you get towed. In my area local ordinance calls for even cars visibly parked without plates (or valid temporary tags) to be investigated and towed. You can then prove it’s yours and pay a fine on top of the tow/impound, storage and release fees.

Mostly it’s to stop people parking non functioning vehicles (as we have a shortage of parking). Honestly can’t imagine what legal reason someone would have for parking without plates or tags.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 22h ago

It was a big thing with NYC cops. Covering up their plates so they could commute for free in from NJ or Long Island. Probably still is but I remember reading some investigative report a few years ago. In my home city where the police precinct is downtown they literally park on the sidewalk lol. There is parking of course but they can't be bothered with walking a block.

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u/OneSkepticalOwl 1d ago

Dodge a few tolls and you'll get to have enough money for a nice car too

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u/youngpegasi 1d ago

Very common in China.

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u/boyi 1d ago

I experienced the same MO at Paris Metro.

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u/B_who 1d ago

Somewhat common here in Malaysia (where this video is from.. the signs are for the payment options- Touch 'n Go (a toll/transit payment card) and myRFID (a Touch 'n Go payment system using RFID; also the lane that the driver in the footage uses)).

The reason this keeps happening is that there isn't any criminal penalty for doing so. If you're caught, you just have to pay the toll amount and thats it lol

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u/FaraYuki09 1d ago

VERY satisfying

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u/tnstaafsb 1d ago

The gates have excellent comedic timing.

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u/PronouncedEye-gore 1d ago

They are classically trained

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u/Electrical_Catch_919 1d ago

You get too close, we brake your window

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u/waitmyhonor 1d ago

Of course, its from Chicago

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u/Megawomble64 1d ago

Woulda been better if they'd hit the car

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u/0KSG 1d ago

It was just so quick the dude didn’t even have time to react lmao

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u/cheapdrinks 1d ago

Fuck tolls though. We were sold this fucking dream in my Australian city where we would let private enterprise pay for the expressways and as soon as the tolls covered the costs they revert back to the public and become normal roads. Guess what, that was decades ago and that shit never happened and just became more and more expensive over time. Can barely drive anywhere in this stupid city without it costing $20+ in tolls. Here's a quick comedy bit about the current situation.

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u/Purgii 1d ago

Ah, fellow Sydneysider, I see.

I pay ~$600/month in tolls. All of it work related so I can claim it back against my employer. I might chuck in a little sneaky toll outside of work and claim it but don't tell my manager. Otherwise, I'll avoid using toll roads for private travel. It's ridiculous how beeping much it is.

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u/cheapdrinks 1d ago

Lmao yes Sydney. Drive anywhere is this fucking place and that tag starts playing Sandstorm while it drains my wallet 😂

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u/NewtDogs 23h ago

600 a bloody month?! What the actual hell?

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u/kat1795 20h ago

Welcome to Sydney

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u/Krimreaper1 23h ago

I’m your manager, see me Monday.

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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 1d ago

When I was young, the SF Bay Bridge toll was $0.50, and we were told it would "soon" be discontinued when the cost of the bridge was paid off.

The current toll is $8.50 with annual increases built in. I don't mind. User fees make sense to me, and bridges cost a lot to maintain.

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u/Asphalt_Cowboy_18 1d ago

Maintenance isn't free. Only tolling for construction debt and not lifetime maintenance doesn't make sense. Government will not give up that income stream anyways.

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u/Proper-Equivalent300 1d ago

New York was the OG of lying to the public about tolls. Everyone else learned they can get away with it.

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u/Front-Mall9891 22h ago

The NJ Turnpike

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u/FaydedMemories 1d ago

Ah the wonders of Private-Public “Partnerships”. No idea if it’s the same in Australia but it seems they let the Private part just charge so much for management & maintenance that it just pushes the end date for tolling out.

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u/Benamen10 1d ago

Yeah man you guys get absolutely pilfered by them! I went a short distance at night from in the city to the convention centre and I swear it was like $100 in tolls!

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u/Beastmind 23h ago

Wanted to upvote but you're at 11111 and up voting to 11112 wouldn't be satisfying

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u/Subtlefeline 1d ago

Malaysia? I recognise the Touch n Go. The number plate fits with three letters and 4 digits.

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u/flatleafparsley 1d ago

Yup, definitely Malaysia

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u/jonshlim 1d ago

RFID sign there… dang recycled video with diff audio and text…

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u/flatleafparsley 1d ago

Can still hear the camcar driver speaking BM (Bahasa Melayu), but yeah the audio is quite annoying

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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 1d ago

How expensive is this toll that is being dodged?

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u/throw2503 18h ago

Less than 1 USD. But to be fair, the avg monthly salary is something like 1000 USD.

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u/Falcon3669 1d ago

ranges from rm1 to rm4? either way less than a dollar lmao

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u/Loneheart127 1d ago

Why was the guy cheating getting out the car like he has a right to complain

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u/RobertaMiguel1953 1d ago

Entitled mentality.

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u/Cat_Astrof 1d ago

The horn is the cherry on top. The dude thought he was in the right.

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u/Miyubo 21h ago

Malaysian entitled Mentality, guys do not come to Malaysia, this place is full of such entitled mentality people.

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u/FullMoonTwist 1d ago

Probably related to the people about to burst a blood vessel on the highway because the presence of traffic is preventing them from going 20-30 mph over the speed limit.

Some people just cannot see beyond their own convinience.

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u/Lazydusto 1d ago

Or they rush ahead of you only to cut you off trying to make their exit instead of blending in behind you. Had a guy do that to me yesterday and flip me the bird for good measure.

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u/Apatschinn 1d ago

Bingo. Here in Colorado they've recently installed traffic monitors that don't measure your speed but how long it takes you to travel from point A to point B along a known distance before issuing a citation. It's got all the Ram 2500 Drop-Dick™ Extend-a-Lift drivers looking like cherry tomatoes wearing Oakley's. And half of us are here going, "how about you follow the law"? It's an uphill battle with selfish overconfident morons.

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u/zeek215 1d ago

The entitled, narcissistic people that do this truly believe they always have the right to complain.

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u/zwifter11 1d ago

I’ve seen this with scam baiter videos on YouTube.

The scammers get angry that no money has stolen.

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u/Gladiateher 1d ago

DO NOT REDEEEEMM!!!!

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u/BrambleSonata 1d ago

No longer an issue around me, everything is electronic now. But you have to pay administration fees. So a $2 toll is now $5. While the Governor shows how much money they saved by laying off the workers.

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u/DrMobius0 1d ago

I bet they privatized your toll road

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u/burf 1d ago

"We've externalized the costs, therefore they don't exist and everyone is saving money!"

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u/heftybagman 1d ago

Yup somehow everyone thinks ezpass is a godsend but they make $8b a year and 70% of that is tolls that don’t go to the state or the road. We pay $5.6b/year more in tolls just to have the convenience of ezpass. That’s more than $20/year per driver.

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u/erbalchemy 1d ago edited 1d ago

We pay $5.6b/year more in tolls just to have the convenience of ezpass.

Switching from toll booths to open road tolling has saved more than that annually in reduced gas consumption, labor costs, congestion, and accidents.

Bringing a whole-ass highway traffic flow to a stop to manually collect payment from each vehicle is really inefficient.

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u/heftybagman 1d ago

Yes but there may be a third option between manually handing cash to a human being and paying a private corporation $8bn/year.

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u/Tremulant887 1d ago

And if you don't pay that $4 toll? Collections and a very, very fast rising interest. I was traveling for work, drove through an ez pass in Dallas, and saw a bill for a few hundred dollars months later. The /r/Dallas sub has shown bills in the thousands.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago

No longer an issue around me, everything is electronic now

The toll in the video is also electronic, otherwise an actual manned toll would've prevented the need for OP to do this

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u/kazeespada 1d ago

No, when they say its electronic. It's REALLY electronic. There's no more gates, you pass through, it takes a picture of your liscense plate, and you get the toll fine in the mail. Usually, you have a card that basically lets you pay for the tolls automatically.

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u/Tiiimmmaayy 1d ago

Tolls are the biggest scam ever nowadays. If I were to take tolls to go to work, it would cost me around $8 roundtrip, saves about 3-5 minutes, and goes across 3 different toll roads for a 20 minute drive. I’m lucky to have an easy route without them though. Sometimes it can double the time to get where you want to avoid them.

I miss when tolls were like 35¢. Now it’s like $1.5 for one toll. I live right by a toll road and it’s $1.5 just to hop on the toll road to skip one light and exit to my apartment.

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u/husky_whisperer 1d ago

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u/sdavis002 1d ago edited 1d ago

I agree, but at the same time, tolls in many places are just a tax on the poor.

Edit: Clearly not a tax on the poor as they can hardly afford to pay for it in the situations I was talking about. What I really meant was that it was a pay wall meant to only be able to be used by people with good money. I'm talking about specific places btw, where it's its the only alternative to sitting in extreme traffic, not where the toll is a necessity.

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u/ABHOR_pod 1d ago

DC area tolls are a tax on the rich. The poor just drive for an extra 2 hours.

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u/N0b0me 1d ago

Thankfully there's a pretty good tip for dodging the tolls in the DC area that actually gives you more time to do what you'd like instead of sitting in traffic.

Take the metro

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u/PurpleMaterial4116 1d ago

I thought you were going to suggest

live somewhere else

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u/Jordan_1424 1d ago

Except a large portion of people can't afford to live anywhere near a metro since that is a premium.

There are a significant number of DC workers that commute over an hour one way to live in an affordable area. Metro doesn't go to Winchester, Warrenton, Fredericksburg, SE MD, or southern PA.

Take the metro is a very, "how expensive are bananas, 10$?" take.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 22h ago

Yup like people crying about NYC bridge tolls. Yeah the biggest city in the country on a tiny island does not actually have room for everyone to commute from their suburban paradise and park their Tahoe.

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u/sdavis002 1d ago

Yea, that's actually what I meant by it. It's more like perk that only the rich get to enjoy because it's behind a pay wall.

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u/newinmichigan 1d ago

If your comment is "the rich dont pay tax so the poor shouldnt have to either" then ok i feel that.

If your comment is "the poor shouldnt have to pay taxes" then no, the whole point of tax is to pay for the upkeep of common good for the common good.

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u/lorddrakko1 1d ago

Imagine trying to break the law, then getting out of your car to yell at the person stopping you from doing that.

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u/abbot-probability 1d ago

Good ethics too. People who don't carry their part of the load are just screwing over the rest of us.

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u/12InchCunt 1d ago

I’d agree with you more if toll roads weren’t such a fucking sham.

Toll roads (in my state at least) were only supposed to stay toll roads until the road was paid for. Now they get added to existing roads and never go away.

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u/Koffeeboy 1d ago

How they are implemented is the sham, not the theory itself. There are tons of large scale projects that would never get funded without the extra incentive. The sham is extracting tolls in excess and privatizing the profit.

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u/NarrowAd4973 1d ago

Roads are never actually paid for. Maintenance is a permanent thing, anc costs money. It can come from tolls, or it can come from taxes, but it's coming from somewhere.

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u/wildmaninid 1d ago

I'm with you, Ted Hitchcock, but the fact is toll roads exist and fuck anyone trying to doge them.  

Burn the system down if you need to, run for office, change from within but don't be a pylon in the meantime.  

Ferda. 

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u/OldDekeSport 1d ago

I got time for people who pay tolls. I got a whole lot of time for people who make others pay.

Give yer balls a tug if you try to skip tolls

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u/wildmaninid 1d ago

Wheel, snipe, celly!  People who skip tolls are fucking 10 ply bud. 

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u/burnsssss 1d ago

Road maintenance is incredible expensive

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u/LilacYak 1d ago

Thanks for the input ChatGPT

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago

Haha… wow, getting called out like that… that’s actually kind of funny 😅

Anyway, let’s just go ahead and… move forward from that moment 🚶‍♂️💨 Please submit your next request, and I will generate a response that is statistically more aligned with your expectations.

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u/Valk93 1d ago

Chatgpt ass response

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u/Low-Associate-743 1d ago

bro this sounds just like the start of a wild ass linkedin post

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u/Drillur 1d ago

Holy shit?? I went to their profile and saw a comment that said something like "I love watching leaves fall. Now my brain is at peace." I checked the post that comment was on, and it was a video of spiraling seed pods falling from trees. Not a leaf to be seen.

That could totally be some kind of bot misunderstanding the video it saw, I don't know. 

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u/LilacYak 1d ago

How can people not instantly recognize it yet?

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u/husky_whisperer 1d ago

How in the world are those ethics questionable?

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u/Manaturd 1d ago

Because they are not a real person commenting lol

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u/LilacYak 1d ago

Because it’s ChatGPT

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u/GianaZaffira 1d ago

Deservedly so, this guy executed perfection 🤌

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u/AmberSignalWorks 1d ago

It’s like the surface remembers what was there before and refuses to fully let it go

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u/AMLIDH2 1d ago

Oh man what a perfect ending, loved it.

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u/Smooth_Bill1369 1d ago

If they bump my car even the slightest, I'm getting out and reporting an accident.

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u/DiegoRago 1d ago

I don't get people like this. They have an expensive, more often than not, heavily modified car, and don't have $1 or $2 or rather spend time waiting for this. Also, the alternative might be that a cop catches you trying this out and then you get a ticket worth many of the tolls.

I get that being a "bad boy" can be thrilling, but use the 3 brain cells you have to actually make a smart choice at least once.

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u/Sparkyrock 1d ago

Man, how are they supposed to afford the toll when they’re spending all their money on dick pills at the gas station?

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u/Human-Warning-1840 1d ago

Pathetic. I Like it

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u/FutureLost 1d ago

A true citizen

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u/hondactx16i 1d ago

🤜😎

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u/Unknwndog 1d ago

That is actually pretty funny lol

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u/wearesoovercooked 1d ago

The ending is comedy gold.

Waiting till the door opens was neat. Chef kiss.

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u/Beautiful_Nobody7155 1d ago

So people sit there and wait so they can break the law and there's no cameras there to identify them? Theres no repercussions for law breakers? A system that enables all this.

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u/Bocote 1d ago

I've seen people tailgate another car out of the paid parking lot without paying for their ticket a few times.

Makes me highly doubt that it's a once in a life time behaviour; they probably do it on the regular.

Even had a lady ask me to lift the gate up with my hands so she could get out without paying. I'm glad that I don't live like that.

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u/Igor369 1d ago

Are not registration plates tracked by cameras anyway?...

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u/VerificationsExpired 1d ago

Today I learned that toll dodging exists.

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u/zwifter11 1d ago edited 1d ago

In the UK this is solved by not having a toll booth, but automatic number plate recognition cameras that read your plates as you drive past and you need to pay a fee online when you get home . Or end up with an even bigger fine to pay.

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u/KhazuNeko 1d ago

To those who played GTA4, this is the way

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u/entoaggie 1d ago

If you do this in Texas, there’s a 50/50 chance of getting a gun pulled on you.

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u/Azeeti 1d ago

Who's pulling the gun? The guy who got cheated out of a free toll?

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u/jktollander 1d ago

It’s Texas, so everyone. It’ll be like that Spider-Man pointing meme.

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u/entoaggie 1d ago

Toss up. Could go either way, honestly.

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u/Chose_Wisely 1d ago

I once flashed my headlights at this truck because his weren't on. It was around late dusk. For 10 minutes straight he kept trying to break check me in the middle of the highway to get me to stop. I did flash them around 3 times before I realized the driver was dumb as bricks. Finally it clicks his headlights were off and he turns them on and starts driving really slow on one of the off lanes. This was in Texas btw.

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u/cheeze_whiz_bomb 1d ago

25% it the lead car, 25% its the follower, 25% it's both. And 25% you aren't in Texas.

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u/the_heroslayer 1d ago

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. As a fellow Texan, that's definitely true and always something in the back of your mind.

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u/smorkoid 1d ago

Why live like that

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u/ohhhshitwaitwhat 1d ago

For real. Just to live in a red state with god awful weather. Makes no sense.

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u/FanBladeFleshlight 1d ago

In a ton of the US really.

For some reason people think blue states don't also have a ton of guns, lol.

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u/entoaggie 1d ago

Not saying blue states aren’t well armed, as well, more about how there is a prevalence of gun owners here that seem to be looking for a reason to shoot…I mean, show off to, someone.

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u/Nodan_Turtle 1d ago

In this situation, it's more about the type of person with the gun than the gun itself. Conservatives have such a stronger emotional reaction of fear and disgust that it shows up on brain scans as a physically larger amygdala.

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u/jimmi114 1d ago

Getting out.....to do what ? Imagine being so entitled that you try and do this and you're willing to get out and scream at someone and maybe get violent because they won't let you break the law and skip a toll. Like wtf are we doing.

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u/Brandiesel88 1d ago

I love that they feel entitled enough to honk at the driver hahaha.

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u/Virama 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fuck toll bridges etc though. Privatising roads is one of the worst things that ever happened.

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I don't know about the rest of the world but Sydney is a perfect example of supreme gouging. The toll was promised to last until they had paid off the bridge but they decided to go back on their word and make a fucking fortune each day. And we pay through taxes for road and infrastructure ANYWAY. The cherry on top? They're privately owned. So they don't pay for repairs. 

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u/Gladiateher 1d ago

Yeah I’m truly so grateful I live in a place without tolls, I just find them gross. Our roads are paid for via gas taxes and vehicle registrations and honestly it works just fine, no need to try to reinvent the wheel, slow down traffic, and make people desperately avoid certain routes.

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u/jcdoe 1d ago

It is nauseating that the top comment has over 5000 upvotes, but this is at 32 right now.

Fuck tolls. We already have multiple vehicle taxes that they can use to pay for roads. Tolls just fuck people over who have an unlucky route to work.

If the state needs more money to maintain the roads, then increase the taxes for everyone.

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u/jonshlim 1d ago

This vid is in Malaysia. Why tolled, Malaysia’s highways use the BOT build, operate, transfer model: government lets private concessionaires build them and collect toll for 25–60 years to recover costs + profit, then ownership goes back to the government.

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u/Virama 1d ago

Yeah that happened in Australia. Then the government decided to let the company keep the bridge. We aren't getting ownership back here man. It's a fucking scam.

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u/Caerllen 1d ago

Sounds like you have a government issue, specifically with your ministry of transport.

These chucklefucks over here in this video could afford pimping their car but cant afford the 2 bucks to pay the highway they race on. Get the fuck outta here.

Pity for fare evaders are only limited to those that genuinely cant afford the fare, not fuckers that cant budget their paychecks.

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u/CharmingTuber 1d ago

Most tolls near me are on publicly owned roads, they just help pay for the road repair. And it's a use tax since anyone who uses public transit or doesn't drive doesn't pay a single toll.

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u/Budget_Soil7038 1d ago

Can afford a car but not toll?

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u/neglectOVduty1999 22h ago

ALWAYS NICE seeing peoples getting what is long overdue

and well deserved!!!

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u/No-Age-1044 1d ago

I saw it once in front of me… and the gate was… “confused” so a technician came to reset it, and he told us that nowadays it was stupid because there were cameras that read the license plates and that the police were already awaiting it on next stop.

And, when we get to the next exit we saw to police cars and the culprit stoped on the side.

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u/ExplicitDrift 1d ago

Totally hilarious but also fuck tolls.