3 days in jail for 50 cent toll? For a person aged 68?

[Liberal_in_LA]

This guy has moxie!

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14112594/detail.html

Jensen was driving to his New Hampshire summer home when he tried to pay the 50-cent toll with tokens, as he had always done.

The toll worker refused to take them and a state trooper at the plaza gave Jensen a citation.

‘‘(The trooper) said, ‘Just give him the 50 cents.’ I said, ‘I did, I gave him two tokens,’’’ Jensen told the newspaper.

Monday, a judge told Jensen he could pay a $150 fine, do community service or go to jail for three days. He choose jail.

‘‘Over my dead body was I going to give the state another dollar for the tolls,’’ Jensen said.

He told the newspaper that the jail was a clean, new facility and that the food was better than expected. He said he spent his time in jail talking with other inmates.

Jensen never told his wife he was in jail. Beverly Jensen said she only found out when asked by a television news reporter.

[yella_dawg]

1. The joys of life in NH

Libertarian utopia.

[Sanctified]

9. Are the toll roads in NH privately owned? n/t

[book_worm]

2. well it was his decision (jail)

and he didn't seem to mind it too much.

[Lucinda]

3. He was gone for three days and his wife didnt notice?

:)
Weird.

[hootinholler]

4. Goin fishin this week ma.

When I see you depends on the fish.

-Hoot

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. That is just sad. nt

[Gormy Cuss]

6. An old cranky Yankee

He's right IMO because the state sold him the tokens for the sole purpose of paying tolls and they reneged. New Hampshire, a state with a huge tourist trade, ended the program in the middle of winter with little notice out of state in spite of the fact there are many summer seasonal residents. The state invoked a no refund position to boot. I'm surprised that others haven't called them on it.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Figgered it was something like that, and...

when NYC subway tokerns, Garden State Parkway tokens, etc. were changed or recalled, everyone got maybe a year's notice.

New Hampshire maybe thought it was small enough to get away with just stopping the program and screwing the few people with leftover tokens-- who's gonna make a big deal over half a buck...

So, this crabby old fart gets three nights on the county for being a crank. In the best tradition of sour old Yankees that is.

[Ezlivin]

7. Anything over a $1.00 means automatic rendition

It's the only way we can be truly safe.