Keene sues six parking meter 'Robin Hoods' who put money in expired meters

[Jim Johnson]

I don't have a link to this story on the internet, but I just heard on WTOP, a Washington, DC all-news station, that a toll both attendant has been fired because when a tractor trailer didn't have enough money to pay the entire toll, the attendant completed the toll payment by donating his own money.

I can see a public benefit to prohibiting uninvolved parties from feeding meters, because the purpose of the meter is at least supposed to be to make sure that short term parking is not used for long term parking, and the fine for overlength use are supposed to discourage such abuse, but in this case, what does the toll agency want?  I mean, the only compliant alternative for the driver might be to back out of the toll gate, park alongside the road, and wait for someone to bring him some money.

The story as I heard it reported was curious.  They said that the toll both attendant was fired because he would not accept shorter hours as his penalty. Must be a union contract involved, because otherwise, when an employer schedules a worker for fewer hours, those simply become his hours, whether he likes it or not.

Close. He realized he had under-charged the driver, and his drawer was short, so he paid the $5.50 dollar shortage; the driver was a regular, and paid him back the next day.

They proposed a suspension, he declined, so they fired him.

http://heavy.com/news/2015/07/sam-samsonov-florida-toll-booth-collector-fired-paying-truck-driver-toll-bridge-boca-raton-gasparilla-island-facebook-photos/


You'd think that after collecting tolls for almost 60 years, the causeway would be paid for by now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Grande_Causeway

How ya gonna pay for the graft? The graft is expensive.

[WithoutAPaddle]

I suspect that we are going to hear another side of this story.  I've known of other highways that had simple provisions for expediently dealing with the situation of a driver not having enough money to pay the toll.  There are inconsistencies in the stories being given, like whether he knew right away that the driver didn't have enough, or realized immediately thereafter that he had undercharged the driver or if he realized it well after or - and here is my concern - if he thought he had a way to game the system, such that he could get a pair of truck axles counted as a following passenger car and discovered that the detection system caught up to him, and so he was forced to "cover".  Stay tuned.

[Free libertarian]

I suspect that we are going to hear another side of this story.  I've known of other highways that had simple provisions for expediently dealing with the situation of a driver not having enough money to pay the toll.  There are inconsistencies in the stories being given, like whether he knew right away that the driver didn't have enough, or realized immediately thereafter that he had undercharged the driver or if he realized it well after or - and here is my concern - if he thought he had a way to game the system, such that he could get a pair of truck axles counted as a following passenger car and discovered that the detection system caught up to him, and so he was forced to "cover".  Stay tuned.

Yes, it is possible there was a small thief trying to steal from the big thief.  Big thief don't like that.