Never give a New Jersey toll collector pennies. Never. Ever. Not unless you want to risk them being thrown in your face. That’s the lesson I learned from reading the 30 pages of customer complaints The Smoking Gun gathered by doing a Freedom of Information Act request on the State of New Jersey. And in between the suggestions to stay flashing suggestions, threats of strip search and violence, that state is very altered indeed.

While most NJ toll collectors are totally professional, these 30 pages represent the hilarious exception to the rule. Here’s one:

Toll Collectors Gone Wild [The Smoking Gun] (Thanks to mitcheviousld!)

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