{"id":92840,"date":"2026-08-12T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92840"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:17:49","slug":"british-family-who-dodged-paying-road-tolls-for-months-in-france-by-lifting-the-barrier-at-booths-are-caught-and-forced-to-cough-up-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/12\/british-family-who-dodged-paying-road-tolls-for-months-in-france-by-lifting-the-barrier-at-booths-are-caught-and-forced-to-cough-up-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"British family who dodged paying road tolls for months in France &#8216;by lifting the barrier at booths&#8217; are caught &#8211; and forced to cough up cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/11\/23\/110576255-16045237-image-a-34_1786486498907.jpg\" alt=\"A family racked up around 3,000 euros in unpaid toll fares after simply lifting up the barriers for months\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A British family who dodged\u00a03,000 euros in road charges in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-ec08cfe0-95d1-11f1-98fd-51eefa3e8791\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/france\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">France<\/a><\/span> by lifting up the barriers at toll booths have been caught by police.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-16045237\/British-family-road-France-barrier-booth-cough-cash.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A British family who dodged\u00a03,000 euros in road charges in\u00a0France by lifting up the barriers at toll booths have been caught by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/France.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92841,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92840\/revisions\/92841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}