Viva Evangelina!
A woman in Texas owes $76,039 for 2,953 toll violations (she ran through the tracking lane without a pass and it took a picture of her license plate) since February 2004.
At first, I thought this woman was reckless and crazy, but then I did the math:
Each toll violation comes with a $25 "administrative fee," which comes to $73, 825 of that amount. This means that she skipped out on $2, 214 worth of tolls in less than two years. (And that each toll cost an average of 75 cents. )
It was about 20 months of driving and toll-skipping, which means that her normal toll fees would come to $110 per month, or $1328 per year. Damn, that's a lot of tolls. What is this, France?
Perhaps Ms. Evangelina Gonzalez is skipping tolls out of protest of the high costs. Or perhaps she is skipping them out of political protest- one of the highways she scammed is the Bush Turnpike, after all.
Either way, this woman is my new folk hero.
At first, I thought this woman was reckless and crazy, but then I did the math:
Each toll violation comes with a $25 "administrative fee," which comes to $73, 825 of that amount. This means that she skipped out on $2, 214 worth of tolls in less than two years. (And that each toll cost an average of 75 cents. )
It was about 20 months of driving and toll-skipping, which means that her normal toll fees would come to $110 per month, or $1328 per year. Damn, that's a lot of tolls. What is this, France?
Perhaps Ms. Evangelina Gonzalez is skipping tolls out of protest of the high costs. Or perhaps she is skipping them out of political protest- one of the highways she scammed is the Bush Turnpike, after all.
Either way, this woman is my new folk hero.
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