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(photo: Daniel Kramer)

Explorer? Mustang? It's all the same to Harris County.

[2banana]

This reminds me of an old "ADAM-12" episode...

[frog_jerk_2004]

This is OLD news for NJ residents...

[frog_jerk_2004]

EZ Pass should be abolished. Instead of abolishing the tolls in NJ they made it easier to pay. That's great logic if you're a DEVILCRAT State Senator, Assemblyman or Gayvenor but if you're a regular serf taxpayer it sucks.

[FreedomFarmer]

I love these stories. (My neighbor says we live 50+ miles from the nearest traffic light.)

[Fudd]

The agency's computer system reads and enhances the license plate photos

Perhaps they should actually look at the pictures, rather than relying on a computer that is having a poor track record. (Then again, that means a government worker would actually have to *do* something beyond his job description).

[liberateUS]

Geeze, if they know when he comes thru and how often, maybe they could post a cruiser there to arrest the scofflaw the next time he shows up!

[Redbob]

"It turns out there are not two such license plates in the DPS database, although there is a 2002 Mustang listed whose license plate is identical to Smith's except it includes an N where Smith's has an M.

"It could be that this guy is out running the tollway and has taken a piece of black tape and made his N an M."

So what's stopping Smith from changing HIS 'M' to and 'N' and makinig life Hell for the Mustang owner?

[Kirkwood]

There has to be a known failure rate for these systems. I'm guessing around 5%. The company that makes them and the cities that buy them need to report the failure rate so the public is informed.

[TommyUdo]

I received an EZ Tag (or whatever it's called) ticket from the Golden Gate Bridge a couple of years back.

Trouble was, I was no where near 'Frisco on the date in question.

Luckily for me, I was in a Rental Car in Los Angeles at the time of the ticket, while my POV was safely ensconced in my garage.

It took weeks of telephone calls, Xeroxing and other time wasting to rid my Car Registration of this ticket.

[dead]

I got a ticket last year for driving 27mph through an EZ pass toll booth on Christmas Day the Tappan Zee Bridge last year. They said I would have to pay $120 bucks, plus I'd have EZ Pass taken away for at least a year, after which I could reapply.

I called up and argued that I drove through a high speed lane, but they insisted there were no high speed lanes on the Tappan Zee. I just threw out the letter and ignored them.

I got a letter a few weeks later, stating that their billing department had been unaware that high speed lanes had been installed on the Tappan Zee and we could ignore the prior threatening letters. No apology, naturally.

I wonder how many millions they spent harassing tens of thousands of their customers (this was Christmas Day traffic after all!) before somebody bothered to check about the high speed lanes. I'm sure nobody lost their job over it.

But they have a government-subsidized, money-losing monopoly, so I don't think any of them give a crap. Their bloated paychecks clear, and that's all that really matters.