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TonyB973 t1_iv0po7z wrote

I don’t recall any gates ever. I always remember them having the baskets and if you didn’t pay the toll you had to take an envelope. To mail in your payment. Also I remember coming off of the Irvington exit there was bars on the baskets because people with stuff something in the basket and then come over and take the change because it wouldn’t go through the basket

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HereTheyBePandas OP t1_iv0puvc wrote

My uncle said he would get a snow cone from Wawa, eat it on the drive, drop the cone in the basket, and on the way home pick up all the money. He eventually went to prison on unrelated charges lol but it was a story he loved to tell

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TonyB973 t1_iv0pyof wrote

That’s freaking awesome! It’s so weird that we lived in a time where there weren’t cameras everywhere

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HereTheyBePandas OP t1_iv0q7ti wrote

Lol my grandma was talking to me one day and she said "I feel so bad for your generation. Your dad and uncles got away with so much shit. Now there's cameras everywhere, you can't do anything fun" raising 6 boys in the 60s-70s they all thought she was clueless about get innocent boys. It's only now that they're older they found out she had an idea what they were up to but as long as it wasn't too bad she didn't really care lol

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weaselpoopcoffee1 t1_iv16745 wrote

An acquaintance I knew used a tennis ball to stuff up the basket then come later and scoop the contents. We used to slow down at the basket and scan the ground for quarters that missed. If there were any we would beep the horn and drive on as if our quarter missed the basket.

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