A man was jailed in New Hampshire for wanting to use tokens to pay a toll.
New Hampshire dropped its token system two years ago when it installed the Fast Pass system used in most Northeast states. The state gave drivers until Dec. 31, 2005, to use their 25-cent tokens.
In March of 2006, Jensen was driving to his cottage in Ossipee when he tried to pay the 50-cent fare at the Spaulding Turnpike's Rochester toll plaza using two tokens, as he had been doing for years.
The toll booth 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 recalled while sitting on the steps outside his Messina Woods Drive home.
The way he sees it, the tokens represented a contract between the state and himself, and he's angry that the state has turned his pre-paid tokens into what he calls worthless souvenirs.
To rub salt in his wound, Jensen says New Hampshire lost his request for trial and, assuming he ignored the citation, issued a bench warrant for his arrest. When he was involved in a minor car accident this summer, he was arrested.
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