Ohio woman bills Michigan $16 for work zone delay
An Ohio woman has sent Michigan transportation officials a bill for the $16 she says she wasted on gasoline sitting in construction zone traffic. Carol Greenberg complained there were no signs warning about the work on southbound Interstate 275 where it merges with I-75 near Newport, Michigan, about 27 miles north of Toledo.
So, she said she got stuck idling for about 50 minutes on July 23 while trying to get home to the Toledo suburbs with her cat after a visit to a specialty veterinarian outside Detroit. She said her Maine coon cat, Sammy, didn't like the delay either and howled the entire time.
In a response letter, the Michigan Department of Transportation says it's not able to reimburse drivers for time, wages, or gas lost in work zone back-ups.
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How anal retentive do you have to be to go through with a hair brained idea like this?
I mean seriously we all fantasize on the road...
For me it's blowing away people with Ohio plates taking up two lanes and going too slow with a cat in a box in the back of their car.
...but how many of us get home and continue the insanity?
You know she had to figure out who to write to, where to write, make up a bill on the back of her mental hospital admittance record and draw a stamp in the corner of the envelope with a crayon.
This took some time....some crazy time.
First, if you are hauling your cat from Ohio into Michigan to see a "specialty veterinarian" you can afford the $16 bucks.
Second, You can also afford a new cat.
Third, you can also afford either a radio to drown out the cat or earmuffs for you to not hear the cat OR for the cat since your jamming the radio so loud.
Fourth, you can afford to move out of Ohio.
Fifth, I will be sending Carol Greenberg a bill for the ten minutes of my life wasted on her bullshit, current rates for my service indicate she owes me $18 dollars and 32 cents.
See you on the kooky train to crazy town...
Welcome to Detroit
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