The Consumerist reports that a toll worker refused to accept the tokens and directed Jensen to a state trooper.
The trooper issued a citation for theft of services. A judge gave Jensen three choices: pay a $150 fine, perform community service, or spend three days in jail. Jensen chose jail.
The Patriot Ledger says New Hampshire dropped the token system two years ago when it installed the Fast Pass system that is now common in most Northeast states. The state gave drivers until Dec. 31, 2005, to use their 25-cent tokens.
In the realm of public control of roads, this man should be allowed to use his tokens until he runs out of them. He did, after all, buy them when he was lead to believe he would always be allowed to use them. Instead of allowing the man to use them, the state bureaucrats decided to arrest an innocent old man. Way to go, government, way to go.
