Posted on 04/22/2019 2:02:55 PM PDT by Gamecock
The Florida Highway Patrol says they arrested a man who took extreme measures to avoid paying Florida tolls.
WFTV in Orlando reports that Joshua Concepcion-West, 27, installed a device on his car that shielded his license plate with the push of a button on a remote control.
Troopers caught Concepcion-West dropping the "curtain" over his tag on the east-west expressway at Conway Road in Orlando, right before he went through the toll plaza.
"After he cleared the tool booth, the tag cover came back up and the tag was exposed again," said FHP Sgt. Kim Montes.
"Because the tag was obscured, we don't know yet how many times this vehicle has run the toll, so we don't know how much money he's stolen from the state," said Montes.
Items similar to the remote control curtain that Concepcion-West installed on his car can be found online. Some products hide the license plate, others make them look distorted on camera shots.
Concepcion-West is facing a felony charge (includes petit theft and cheating or gross fraud) for failure to pay a $1.25 toll.
Awesome idea.
He should have been more aware of his surroundings and been willing to pay the toll if he saw police.
Throw his ass in jail, and serve as an example.
There was a case here in California where a guy had Personalized Plates that said “No Plate”, the computer automatically kicked it out as having NO PLATE!!! For Years!
I wonder if No PIate would work as well?
If he was that smart he would have flipped a phony plate in front instead of a curtain and billed someone else.
Silly Florida Man, he should have had the drop down curtain look like someone else’s plate. :P
Florida Man has technology!...................
Florida Man sure gets around.
You know we're talking about 'Florida Man' here?..................
Is there anything Florida Man can’t do?
$1.25 toll.................I bet he paid a lot more for his dumb gadget!................
Why don’t you throw the politicians in jail. You ever take deductions or credits when tax time rolls around to lessen the tax bite, or do you happily pay the government in full? Tolls are a scam. All the money that the gas tax generates should pay for the roads 10 times over but gets pissed away on non-transportation crap.
That may be being done. We were billed on a company trailer that supposedly went through a toll booth in Miami. We have the plate in our shop, we have the trailer in a locked yard and we have the picture of the truck with the same plate number. Either the State issued the same plate twice or someone has a phony plate (don’t know if it was “flipped”). Waiting to hear the outcome to our response.
Bond...James Bond
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“...we don’t know how much money he’s stolen from the state,” said Montes.
The wife and I drove through Orlando a couple of weeks ago. By the time we paid ALL the different tolls, I felt it was the other way around.
Kind of like Chuck Norris, only different.
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