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* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' you could blow past the toll both for the bridges crossing the water to reach different islands without paying, but you will incur a wanted level for doing so.
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* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' you could blow past the toll both for the bridges crossing the water to reach different islands without paying, but you will incur a wanted level for doing so.
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Toll roads allow drivers to arrive at their destinations quicker, at the cost of making a monetary payment to use the route. In the old days, this is done by stopping at a checkpoint on the road and handing cash to the attendant. In some cases, scofflaw drivers will try to avoid making the payment by speeding by the booth, or ramming through the barrier arm gate if there is one.
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Toll roads allow drivers to arrive at their destinations quicker, at the cost of making a monetary payment to use the route. In the old days, this is was done by stopping at a checkpoint on the road and handing cash to the attendant.attendant, who would then rotate the wooden pole blocking further travel to the side to let the payer through -- this is the origin of the word "turnpike". In some cases, scofflaw drivers will try to avoid making the payment by speeding by the booth, or ramming through the barrier arm gate if there is one.
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* "Shunpiking" is travelling in ways that deliberately avoid having to use toll roads. The practice dates back to at least the early United States, with Rice Road in northwestern Massachusetts being used so that stagecoaches could avoid using a nearby turnpike and becoming the earliest known road to get the sorbiquet "shunpike".
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* "Shunpiking" is travelling in ways that deliberately avoid having to use toll roads.roads, generally at the cost of needing to travel longer. The practice dates back to at least the early United States, with Rice Road in northwestern Massachusetts being used so that stagecoaches could avoid using a nearby turnpike and becoming the earliest known road to get the sorbiquet "shunpike".
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' short story "Troll Bridge", Mica the troll is infuriated that one of his brothers-in-law has a bridge, but uses a toll barrier, rather than just jumping out and scaring people, because that is ''not'' how a troll is supposed to run a bridge. According to the song "What Cohen Did Next" at the end of TheFilmOfTheBook, Cohen the Barbarian's response to this was to headbutt the booth open, and grab all the money as the troll fled.
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* ''Film/HudsonHawk'': the titular character is in an out-of-control ambulance gurney. He manages to get one arm loose so he can toss change into the toll booth so he can keep careening out of control because the bad guys are after him.
* In ''Film/TheGumballRally'', two cars attempt to get through a toll lane ahead of one another. This results in both cars getting wedged between the toll booths.
* In ''Film/TheGumballRally'', two cars attempt to get through a toll lane ahead of one another. This results in both cars getting wedged between the toll booths.
* ''Film/HudsonHawk'': The titular character is in an out-of-control ambulance gurney. He manages to get one arm loose so he can toss change into the toll booth so he can keep careening out of control because the bad guys are after him.
* In ''Film/TheGumballRally'', two cars attempt to get through a toll lane ahead of one another. This results in both cars getting wedged between the toll booths.
* In ''Film/TheGumballRally'', two cars attempt to get through a toll lane ahead of one another. This results in both cars getting wedged between the toll booths.
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* One of ''WebVideo/TheSpiffingBrit'''s run for ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' has him running a "city" entirely consisting of a series of tollbooths, purely making a profit out of this without having to pay for other services. When cars try going on other highways, or people instead opt to take trains instead, he has those severed so that everyone would have to pay tens if not hundreds of dollars worth of toll to go from one end to the other. With infrastructure and power expenses factored in, he would earn close to $10,000 a week that way.
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* One of ''WebVideo/TheSpiffingBrit'''s run for ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' has him running a "city" entirely consisting of a series of tollbooths, purely making a profit out of this without having to pay for other services. When cars try going on other highways, or people instead opt to take trains instead, he has those severed so that everyone would have to pay tens if not hundreds of dollars worth of toll to go from one end to the other. With infrastructure and power expenses factored in, he would earn close to $10,000 a week that way.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "Speed Demons", Superman and The Flash speed past a toll house while paying the toll. The toll house operator and the driver next to him look at the superheroes in awe as the latter's coins are spinning on the collection plate.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "Speed Demons", Superman and The Flash speed past ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' cartoon "Rabbit Transit", Bugs, in the middle of a cross-country race, approaches a toll house while paying bridge, but jumps into the toll. river and swims across instead.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', Dilbert is stuck in traffic. The cause? Despite the freeway being 5 lanes wide, only 1 tollhouse operator and booth is open. Even worse, the driver next to him look guy currently at the superheroes in awe as toll booth insists on flicking his quarter into the latter's coins are spinning on coin slot, only to keep missing, resulting in him continuously getting out of his car to pick up the collection plate.coin and then getting back in to try again.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', Dilbert is stuck in traffic. The cause? Despite the freeway being 5 lanes wide, only 1 toll
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "Bus the Two of Us", after having taken the Foster Bus for a joyride, Bloo asks Mac to search for spare change to toss it into the toll booth while ''[[DrivesLikeCrazy speeding up]]''. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Unpredictability]], the coin toss failed, they ended up breaking through the booth and get pulled over by the police.
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* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "Rabbit Transit", Bugs, in the middle of a cross-country race, approaches a toll bridge, but jumps into the river and swims across instead.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', Dilbert is stuck in traffic. The cause? Despite the freeway being 5 lanes wide, only 1 toll booth is open. Even worse, the guy currently at the toll booth insists on flicking his quarter into the coin slot, only to keep missing, resulting in him continuously getting out of his car to pick up the coin and then getting back in to try again.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', Dilbert is stuck in traffic. The cause? Despite the freeway being 5 lanes wide, only 1 toll booth is open. Even worse, the guy currently at the toll booth insists on flicking his quarter into the coin slot, only to keep missing, resulting in him continuously getting out of his car to pick up the coin and then getting back in to try again.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "Speed Demons", Superman and The Flash speed past a toll house while paying the toll. The toll house operator and the driver next to him look at the superheroes in awe as the latter's coins are spinning on the collection plate.
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* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': An army of anachronistic villains out to destroy the town of Rock Ridge is stopped dead in their tracks by a toll booth erected in the desert. Absolutely nothing prevents them from going around, but they send runners back for change and then pay and go through one at a time. (Well, nothing apart from the fact they think the booth was set up by their sleazy money-grubbing boss..)
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* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': An army of anachronistic villains out to destroy the town of Rock Ridge is stopped dead in their tracks by a toll booth erected in the desert. Absolutely nothing prevents them from going around, but they send runners back for change and then pay and go through one at a time. (Well, nothing apart from the fact they think the booth was set up by their sleazy money-grubbing boss..)
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* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': An army of anachronistic villains out to destroy the town of Rock Ridge is stopped dead in their tracks by a toll booth erected in the desert. Absolutely nothing prevents them from going around, but they send runners back for change and then pay and go through one at a time.
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* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': An army of anachronistic villains out to destroy the town of Rock Ridge is stopped dead in their tracks by a toll booth erected in the desert. Absolutely nothing prevents them from going around, but they send runners back for change and then pay and go through one at a time. (Well, nothing apart from the fact they think the booth was set up by their sleazy money-grubbing boss..)
