If you are or ever going to buy a car in Va. read this

.............................and another screwjob by the incompetents who run our states.

Evidently WA state has some kind of automatic license plate reading software for toll bridges. Some guy "had" a WA license number and kept getting bills from the state for toll bridges he never used!!! Turns out that it's an OUT OF STATE PLATE number was the same as his. He TURNED IN the plate and is STILL getting bills from the other guys car!!

http://www.king5.com/news/520-bridg...charged-for-out-of-state-tolls-140642463.html

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SEATTLE -- David Lau crosses Lake Washington all the time -- he just never takes the 520 bridge.

"I do take I-90," he said. "It's just more convenient."

So, you can imagine his dismay when he started getting bills for $5 tolls. Trips across the bridge he never took.

"It just didn't make any sense," Lau said.

It turns out there's somebody out there with a Texas license plate that has the same number as Lau's Washington plate, but the tolling system isn't able to tell the difference. That means Lau has gotten not one, but about 10 bills over the past few months that someone else is supposed to be paying.

"They said they can't do anything about it because it's the computer system that automatically processes the bill," said Lau.

What's more, the license plate on Lau's car isn't even active. Lau says he turned the plate into the Department of Licensing more than three years ago, but he's still had to spend hours on the phone with police and DOL and WSDOT trying to get the situation cleared up.