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Can a $100 Dollar Bill Get You Detained at a Florida Turnpike Tollbooth?

WTSP-TV:

Tampa, Florida — Meet Joel Chandler, who just paid his $1.00 toll on the Polk Parkway with a $100 bill, he is not allowed to leave unless he provides personal info to the toll taker. The toll taker tells Chandler this is what happens when they get large bills. She says this is what they have to do.

Chandler says to the toll taker, “So I’m being detained?” She says yes sir.

It is a policy the Florida Turnpike authority instituted for people who paid with $20, $50 or $100 bills. After it happened once, Chandler kept testing the system and taped his encounters as he went through the toll booths.

One time a toll taker told him, she wouldn’t give him his change unless he gave her the information. Chandler replied, “So I’m being detained.” He asked why he was being detained but never got an answer.

Chandler says this is a serious criminal offense, to detain someone without proper legal authority. He says that is exactly what the department is doing.

When Chandler called and e-mailed the Florida Department of Transportation to complain about the policy, he was told there is no policy to detain people who give large bills. He says that made him more concerned, because that meant there were individual rogue toll takers detaining people.

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  • FLDeb
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:25am

    The Parkway does not even have that many manned booths left. You need exact change or a Sun Pass to even get on it. I thought I heard there were several other toll roads in FL that went to the pass system only to get on it?

    What ever they are doing is probably not right, but I agree, if you are going to be taking a toll road have the correct change. The lines can back up so fast that any advantage to taking it is removed. I travel the parkway often and used to travel the state with my children for travel games, sitting in lines at toll booths takes away any time saved by using them.

    Deb

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    • jeffile
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:15pm

      Yes, it’s nice to have the correct change but not always possible. It it were possible then why have toll takers? Think, buddy, think.

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  • BLUJKTS
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:48am

    Not one person has commented that the toll was only a dollar. Thats a fuc#ing bargain! Sorry folks, highways, tolls and paying them are not a right, they are a priviledge. Pay your tolls and shut the hell up.

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  • GazinDaBlaze
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:35am

    Joel Chandler seriously has nothing better to do than bust the stones of minimum wage toll workers who don’t want to come up short on their register cuz somebody passes them a large conterfiet bill? C’mon, there are far more important things to devote a personal crusade to.

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    • bereal
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 5:35pm

      Devote a personal crusade to! Mmmm, think a little outside the box, the Gov’t never does anything without a specific thought behind it, just one step at a time is what they do. Agree?

      Quest. GAZINBLAZE, do you think the Gov’t is too involved with peoples lives? Businesses? etc.? Just curious where your ideologies lie..

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  • Bodysnatcher
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:06am

    I wonder what wouldhave Happen if he gave her a hundred pennies?

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  • 229Mick
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:34am

    Did someone really say the words “individual rogue toll takers”??? What kind of world do we live in?!?!?

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  • TheAwakenedOne
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:19am

    The POLK Parkway is in POLK county, hence is a COUNTY roadway possibly under private control as many in the state are, so I don’t think Gov. Scott has any jurisdiction. Lies with Polk county or the private owners whichever applies. Sadly a few tolltakers don’t represent Polk county where I live. I prefer to think of our local culture like mudboggin and fishin with our favorite cousin.

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  • Valkaneer
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:13am

    He should ask the toll booth person for there information as well being how does he know that person is not stealing his identity.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:10am

    Thank you, Blaze, for “changing booths.”

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:47am

    I always try to pay them with self esteem.

    “What? Are you trying to tell me self esteem is worthless?”

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  • BlazingBlaze
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:44am

    I’m sorry if you disagree, but no matter where you are and no matter what you are doing, if you give a $100 bill to pay for a one dollar item, you are a JERK. You are especially a jerk if you are in a place where speed is important to those behind you in line, like a tollbooth. Get the hell off the tollway and leave the real world to those who understand it.

    The tollbooths should deal with jerks like this by giving him 99 one-dollar bills. Jerk.

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:23am

      I prefer to wait for someone to pay with cash than for one who pays for it with food stamps while driving a expensive car.

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    • BlazingBlaze
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:27pm

      In Texas we have a card (instead of stamps) and it doesn’t work on anything except the items on a list somewhere. You swipe the card and use your own movey to pay for the rest. You can’t use it at a tollbooth.

      Back in the 80′s, before the card, I knew some people who would sell their food stamps and use the money they made to buy drugs. I am SO glad Texas woke up.

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  • Docroxall
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:18am

    Yeah, us tourists from states where the citizens of the state pay for and use the roads take some getting used to toll booths in FL. Being annoyed with us is part of what you have to endure, if your
    #1 commerce is tourism.

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  • montanamadman
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:14am

    ha ha ………toll booth this is so stupid
    i cant spell either

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  • maumau
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:04am

    i love it real news people arm themselves with cameras and get the truth!

    just like acorn and planned parenthood

    kudos to the brave and willing !

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:38am

      Amen to that! Congrats to this man for not accepting something just because some ticket idiot said it was so.

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  • luisr
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:02am

    So you’re the idiot holding up traffic at the tool booths. Not everyone has as much free time to waste as you. We have places to go. Do us a favor and carry singles from now on, or better yet, get yourself a Sun Pass and save yourself 25 cents.

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    • montanamadman
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:09am

      slow your roll turbo, and learn how to spell. its toll both

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:10am

      If you have a Sun Pass then he isn’t holding you up … I would like to know how many of these people were tourists …

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    • luisr
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:16am

      Check out the title, it’s “tool”booth, at least for now. Isn’t Montana one of those no speed limit states?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:21am

      @montanamadman
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:09am
      slow your roll turbo, and learn how to spell. its toll both
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      “Slow your roll turbo”
      That was a good one!
      (Still laughing!)

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    • marine249
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:27am

      LUISR
      not after david put it on his show
      it’s now 75

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  • SingerGuy
    Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:01am

    I’d feed them a bunch of fake ID info if they detained me for a $20 bill. If they have no legal authority then they have no recourse even if they find out my info is fake. If it’s a rogue ticket taker doing a little ID theft on the side, well, they won’t get any from me.

    What am I saying? I live in the western US where we don’t have toll roads!!! It’s all good. ;-)

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:53am

      I too live in the west- sorry to say- there is one 2 hours away from where I live. Next month there is a system called “good to go” in which another bridge will have a transponder/pass that when you pass the cameras/scanners your acct will be credited. If you do not have it, the camera’s will record your linc plate # and you will get a bill in the mail for the $ due.

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  • Doc Inman
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:56pm

    First it‘s WisONSIN now it’s TOOLbooth. Has the Beck crew at The Blaze been sampling Glenn’s meds? No wonder the Rodeo Clown’s ratings are disappearing down the media POLLbooth toilet!

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    • ANTISOCIAL-IST
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:05am

      are you implying this is a nonstory? i had never heard of this “policy” and it directly affects me so i am quite pleased with the “medicated” staff at blaze to bring it to my attention.
      opinions are like a……s.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:17am

      Doc, don’t you realize that the only perfect person died 2,000 years ago? Or, are you telling us something that we are not aware of about yourself?

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  • plainjo
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:55pm

    What is a toolbooth?

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:53pm

    Even Republican states can Embrace Communism.Look at Arizona and speed Cameras.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:01am

      Charlie Crist was no Republican .. RINO at best. Rick Scott is the new Governor .. someone in his Adminstration needs to be looking into this and put a stop to it.

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    • CitizenVetUSA
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:03am

      Arizona voted and removed all photo radar last year.

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    • home_of_the_brave
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:00am

      Hey Smokey,
      Photo Radar went up when Jannet Napalitano was Governor, after Jan Brewer took office the cameras came down!

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  • montanamadman
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:52pm

    what about a two dollar bill

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Obama did it

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  • needanotherReagan
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:50pm

    I can’t even remember the last time I saw a one hundred dollar bill. I also can’t remember the last time I saw a toll taker.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:18am

      Florida .. lots of tourists and tolls …. when traveling people tend to have larger bills.

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:47pm

    This sounds like the toll takers are ID thieves

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:54pm

      @NOWHERE

      I thought of that also .. and since when is a $20 a large bill .. and haven’t they ever heard of a counterfit PEN to test the bill … my grocery store has them to check the bills and they take $100′s without any problem .. this is just WRONG.

      I have always had small bills when using the tolls .. I guess I was lucky because I would NOT give them my personal information.

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    • WAR PIGS CRAWLING
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:03pm

      Yeah…..I’m gunna need to see two forms of picture I.D., write down your social security number for me, a quick retinal scan, and swab the inside of your cheek……what’s that…….oh, yes sir……standard procedure….

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  • CatB
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:46pm

    I will be at meetings in Florida this week with some people who should know about this … I will be bringing it up and seeing what they have to say.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:07am

      I can tell you that you had better count your change in New Jersey! The guy shorted us $10 in change from a $100 bill, and the driver drove on while I counted the change.

      Well, you-all know how I am! We did not get the $10 back, but the man in the office gave me a receipt for $10 (to shut me up!), and we turned it in and did not have to pay it out of our pockets. That was when I was driving an 18-wheeler.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:48am

      My question is why didn’t this Joel Chandler turn over the tapes he took of those “rogue” toll takers to the authorities? I am assuming the film could be used to identify them. Maybe they are part of some kind of scam.

      My second question is who in the world goes on a tollroad without checking what’s in your wallet? I don’t know about you, but you won’t find lonely $100 bills in my wallet at any given time!

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    • ShayPackrit
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:05pm

      First thought that came to my mind was that they were collecting “rich” peoples names and addresses so that they could rob them later. If you hand out $100 bills, you must be rich…… in their minds.

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Interesting…trying it out tomorrow.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:58pm

      This is why states are going broke!

      “The Department also spent $32,000 on forms used to catch the $16,000 in funny money. The department also says in e-mails, the program will help law enforcement catch counterfeiters. “

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  • Venom
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Man we are weird.

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    • Quagaar Warrior
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:13am

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      I was also harassed at a gas station in Death Valley National Park when I chose to pay for my gas with the new dollar coins. He told me he couldn’t accept them as payment. I told him that they were legal tender coins and he had no other choice but to accept them as payment and if he didn‘t accept them he wouldn’t get paid. He begrudgingly accepted them and whined about how he’d have to do his final daily count out of his normal way and it would be a hassle. I smuggingly smiled and said, “WHATEVER!”
      I then departed with a huge smile on my face that I made sure he could see.
      DON’T TAKE CRAP FROM GOVT. EMPLOYEES. THEY’RE A BUNCH OF LAZY, CORRUPT SLIME- BALLS!!!
      WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER!!!
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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    • RightWrite
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:16am

      You would think that the toll-booth would be the perfect place to break a C-note!
      Man thinks to himself, “the toll-booth will have thousands of small bills to break my Benjamin”.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:16am

      Weird does not begin to do the situation justice…whatever is beyond weird, this truly is.

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    • ONETERM
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:27am

      i find it funny they didn’t just give him all ones back. that would have surely ended it. lol.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:27am

      This is a double edge sword. We force the Toll booths’ to accept large bills, then counterfeiters hit them, and wash their money. Or they could simple employ the same method a 7-11 uses, the pen with ultraviolet light.
      Hey, there’s a trick, make them actually learn something a slurpie-slinger knows. But, hey, we are talking about Florida, been there many times, lived there once, the atmosphere is more so on cruise control.

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    • Koolaiders
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:32am

      Isnt Florida controlled by a Republican Governor?

      So this is what happens when you let Republicans take over!!

      Thats enough evidence for me that the GOP is now controlled by the mindless far right wing Tea Party ideologues.

      Select Palin for GOP 2012 to Reelect Obama!  
    • Dumbsht
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:34am

      Toll Trolls

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:38am

      Shaking my head wondering how many other government programs are being abused like this. Is it really too much to expect to have an honest government, or am I just being naive? Never mind, I know the answer… sadly!

      http://www.americasteapartynews.com

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:38am

      @ONETERM
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:27am
      i find it funny they didn’t just give him all ones back. that would have surely ended it. lol.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Quarters!

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    • home_of_the_brave
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:53am

      I think Mr. Chandler is keeping Govt. and state officials accountable. While some might not think it’s not a big deal remember, Rome did not fall over night, nor did Germany. Rather, it was dismantled little by little so the people would not realize what was happening. You don’t put a frog in boiling water, he will jump out, rather, you put him in room temperature water and slowly turn the heat up. This is the same principle at work here.

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:57am

      Typical government stupidity, spend 32,000.00 to save 16,000.00 and failed to do so.

      Sounds like Cash for Clunkers, when it cost 26,000.00 to give away 4,500.00 can the government ever do anything right?

      Everyone claims they get the military right, while that may be true of the soldier it sure isn’t true of the military who blows through money like it was free. As a retired marine it sure wasn’t my salary nor the quality of my uniform. Even though I’m sure the government paid top dollar for the uniforms and boots. Why buy quality when you can pay twice the price for half the product? Just seems to be the government way, unless they’re buying for themselves…

      I‘m glad to see the uni’s have come a long way since I served but I‘m certain the cost hasn’t come down. Does anyone remember the $20,000.00 hammers or the $100,000.00 toilet seats?

      And now we’ve learned that the post that missed the financial debacle were double manned and they still could see what was going on. They don‘t have one person watching a blade of grass grow but whole teams and they still can’t catch the weeds.

      And people want to trust the government to manage the medical field, they’re not Socialist, they’re Suicidal Morons. Its no wonder the leaders won’t take the same healthcare plans, they know what it leads to.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:58am

      @Dumbsht
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:34am
      Toll Trolls
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      That was funny!
      (Are you DashRipRock in disguise?)

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:05am

      Showtime, ONETERM,

      Funny, but not quite. He paid in legal tender, it’s not like he tried to pay in foreign currency. I can just see it now (What a twenty, sorry ser do you have ID and up come a Canadian with a hundred and gets change and a discount) It might sound crazy now but just wait and see…

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:07am

      Dumbsht

      More like Government Trolls

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    • jbl8199
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:42am

      @DUMBSHT Toll Trolls, Lol, that was a good one. Anyway kudos to that guy stepping up for what’s right. This definitely sounds like it would be illegal to me. Good for him!!!!!!!

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:52am

      One thing I have learned every time I have to go to the Cape, always have exact change. Just saying, makes the drive go faster.

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:03am

      You guys are missing the point entirely. They do not want to call the police on counterfeit pushers (even though most of us have at least one counterfeit bill in our wallets right now), they do not want to use the pen, yet they want to collect names.

      So the question becomes, what type of registry are they collecting names for, what departments does this registry run through, and what type of tabs are they keeping and for what reason?

      To me it smells like another sneaky inroad to a new future tax that will probably end up at the butt-end of some bill that Floridians won’t know about until well after it hits and someone finally looks at the details or audits the state treasury.

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:05am

      That’s BS. This is not making a very strong case for living in Florida. That’s messed up.

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    • demsaredumb
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:07am

      Koolaid drinker guess your reading skill are not up to par or maybe you are taught by WI teachers. He said when he checked with higher ups they said there was no policy to get information from people that pay with large bills, so that means most likely PO toll workers on their own.

      Toolaiders wrote:

      “Koolaiders
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:32am

      Isnt Florida controlled by a Republican Governor?

      So this is what happens when you let Republicans take over!!

      Thats enough evidence for me that the GOP is now controlled by the mindless far right wing Tea Party ideologues.”

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:29am

      30 friends with 100.00 bills would stop this pretty fast.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:49am

      OMG – this guy did some great investigation but I wonder if it will go anywhere. The illegal detention can get the Florida Toll Road into tons of trouble. Class action suit sounds great – I am going to follow this one. http://wp.me/pYLB7-IH

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 5:01am

      I live in Florida and this is the typical dumb redneck thinking that goes on every day

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:33am

      I read they were doing this in New York but not all over the country.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:42am

      When in FL, if spending extended time in the state, get an E-Pass. By the time you sit in those lines you could be at your destination, especially in the Orlando and other large metro areas. In Chandler’s case I think I would contact Grady Judd, no nonsense sheriff in Polk County.

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    • grumpyt
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:53am

      “HomeOfTheBrave” is right. The bastards are counting on us to take the SMALL things that lead to the REALLY BIG THINGS. The Overton Window!!! Citizens must stand up! Even when others are calling us foolish or paranoid, stand for the RIGHTS enumerated in the Constitution. We must stand at every opportunity or we will be forced to KNEEL.

      I know it sounds crazy over getting change at toll booth, but this is a great example of “how to eat an elephant”…one bite at a time.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:30am

      Maybe the government employee couldn’t count to 99 in order to give the man his change…

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:47am

      I’m not detaining you…I’m just counting out your change in pennies. I have 9,998 pennies to go.

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    • HardcoreAlexJones
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:54am

      This is a concerted effort.

      The TSA and Homeland Security has issued guidelines for profiling. It focuses on black and hispanic males (Ironically, not arabic males who the 9-11 hijackers were).

      It’s ok to profile minorities like blacks and hispanics, just not arabic or indian or any other “brown skinned” people.

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    • Clive Norris
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:57am

      Here is my take – most business’s these days will not take a bill over $20. Put up a little sign saying this and let it go. Our government is filled with liberals that will be happy to make an example of you if you allow it. If you wish to be detained pay with a $100 and enjoy the experience. You can have all the law suits you want the only way to stop this sort of thing is to elect sensible people, but this has as much chance of happening now ( todays world) as a snow ball in hell. The educated illiterates and the “give me” people will elect all until America is no more the country you have known.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:16am

      In Ireland you can’t use or exchange a U.S. $100.00 bill. Apparently, the U.S. $100.00 note is THE most counterfeited note in history. Almost as if some one was trying to collapse our economy. But, hey, that’s just crazy talk. Right?

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:31am

      My question is: Are toll takers held responsible and must make restitution if a bill is counterfit? If so I can understand why they want the info. If not then it is an abuse of power and unlawful detention. It is very simple. The Gov issues an order that the practice be stopped immediately and he fires the one that issued the order to start with. This does not happen at multiple tool booths without an order from higher up.

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    • gofigureinternational
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:18am

      Exactly right Oldtimer. Someone in the upper levels of bureaucracy new it and has denied connection with the policy. It would be interesting to know reasoning. Certainly it is not attacking money laundering “one 100 bill at a time”. And since they are even down to 20’s, it sounds suspect at best.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:25am

      Tax Dollars at work! I hope he goes through with the class-action suit, sounds like he’s got a hell of a case!!! Only in America can you get hassled for PAYING YOUR BILL WITH CASH!!!

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    • just the facts
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:45am

      @koolaiders

      You idiot!

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    • calamari12
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:34pm

      i want to know what information they want. Especially if there isn’t a policy actually in place. that makes you thankful you have life lock

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:56pm

      The Jewish Apartheid is just clamping down on your freedoms. Better move to Russia fast where they have been removed from power. Dark days coming for America just like in 20th century Russia.

      BTW didnn’t you just love the GB show Friday where the historian said that the Bolsheviks were anti-Semetic? lol When almost each and everyone of them were Jews. Then every Russian emigrate in the audience was Jewish too.. The Zionist GB is so misleading the people on this issue. No he is actually rewritng history.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:06pm

      @ techengineer

      you my friend need to go back and re listen to that segment as a tech engineer, one would think you had an eye for detail, but obviously you are a crappy engineer

      he sad the movement AGAINST the Bolsheviks was ant-Semitic, he DID NOT say the Bolsheviks were anti Semitic

      you should be “feeling” really dumb right about now

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Nice, I’d hate to be the next car behind this guy as he waits for his change. On the other hand it’s great example of the state being out of control. One hand doesn’t know what the other is doing. Oh no, we don’t have a policy of detaining people with large bills…as rogue trolls harass drivers with money.

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    • ACgirl
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:30pm

      If you are a Floridian you have a SUN PASS. This gets you through the tolls at a discounted price without stopping, and you pre-pay for a month, months, or yearly. The toll people do not have thousands to break a benjamin. In addition to that, we get too many people who have counterfit bills. Too many illegals and tourists that have been given counterfit bills abroad. Money gets by the grocery stores and some of the banks. A lot of counterfit bills are also passed in restraunts. If you as an employee in any establishment in Florida accept a BAD bill then you are responsible to cover the cost if it is counterfit and you don’t catch it.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:20pm

      Lol yeah right. People are going to launder money through toll booths one bill at a time. Conveniently placing themselves and their car and plates on camera with every visit.

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    • ozz
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:37am

      A wise man goes no where without a sound recorder and a video cam these days. Catchem with their pants down n call them on their BS. Take no crap from government n walk tall and free.

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    • FOGWatch
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 2:34am

      A couple of thoughts in reply to some of the comments I’ve read here.

      The actions of the toll workers were the result of a clearly established policy at FDOT. In fact, the policy in question is clearly outlined in the FDOT “Policies and Procedures Manuel.”

      The issue of collecting data is an interesting one. The fact is that there has never been even a single instance where FDOT referred any motorist to any law enforcement agency regarding the use for counterfeit currency. That certainly leaves one to wonder what they were actually doing with all of that data. After all, with DMV data they would know your name, address, telephone number, height, weight, age, race, etc. They would also have some ideas about your travel patterns. While that issue is still unresolved we know with certainty they were not using the data for the purposes they claim to have been using it.

      My goal in pursing this issue has been, from the beginning, to get FDOT to terminate this unlawful and unconstitutional policy. In the end, it will be up to a Federal judge to make that happen.

      Best regards,

      Joel Chandler

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    • Navyveteran
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 1:05pm

      Venom you got that right. I don’t do toll roads for one very specific reason. If my tax money paid to build that dog gone road, I am not going to be double taxed for driving on it. I don’t care if it is faster, more convient or not, not being double taxed is the principle of not using the roads.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 2:45pm

      This makes perfect sense to me. A police officer cannot stop and ask an illegal alien to provide a valid Id but on the-other-hand, an American citizen has to provide Id when paying with a 100 dollar bill.

      Makes perfect sense to me in this upside down universe we are living in.

      I think I saw the very same thing on Star Trek once.

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    • Kookaburra
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 9:40pm

      Don’t take that crap from any of them. Here is what you do. Take your camera phone and video and record everything the tolltakers say to you. Ask them to repeat everything again if you have to, saying things like, “Tell me that again please….you mean you are detaining me for paying a toll with a large bill?” Let them elaborate. See how fast they change their minds. — I pulled this same thing when harassing censor workers came to my house multiple times demanding weirdo information. I photographed her and her car, took her plate number down, handed her a lengthy No Trespassing Notice with every Constitutional violation she offended and told her (and the cop she sent to my house) that I was going to press charges against her. Never saw her or the cop ever again.

      I have fought EZ Pass at NJ Tolls twice and won. They intimidated me no end declaring that I didn’t pay a toll when I did (this is a ploy NJ constantly uses to get people to use EZ Pass which I refuse to utilize–it traces your every move–time, place, mileage, etc.), threatening me with a $500 fine and other harassments. It went on for over a year. I never relented, even filed Affidavits of witnesses in my car at the time, told EZ Pass I was going to sue them, and referred the whole mess to my local legislator’s office. All of a sudden, I get a notice in the mail that you owe zero -0-.

      This is all the intimidation factor, and they count on your ignorance. Show them you’re not. Cameras and threats of lawsuits work fantastic.

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    • Rice Water
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 8:00am

      This Chandler guy sounds like a real dick.

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    • jettson
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 9:56am

      It’s this kind of crap that makes people crazy Play your game elsewhere get the hell out of way. Out of all the problems there are Mr. Chandler get easy pass Venom were not all weird just this kind of guy.

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