I have heard that Illinois does not have the ability to send violation tickets to out-of-state drivers. That also means that out-of-staters that pay tolls are doing it only to suit their conscience.

The only way then that you could get a ticket is if a policeman nails you driving through the easy-pass lanes w/o a transponder. They used to do that on I-90 coming out from O'Hare before the easy-lanes were put in. They would sit right past the outlet of the transponder lanes and pick off the people that ran through. But I doubt they can do it any more.

The batteries in my first transponder died and I drove around like that for a year and a half (no tickets or anything) before I got stuck in a manual lane with an arm and then had to call in.

I used to cherry-pick hard drives back in the old days (a few years ago) when Circuit City and Best Buy used to give those huge rebates.

Those were the good days when you could get a relatively large hard drive at either place - I never spent more then $35 after all of the rebates.

I do know that I went into one over the summer and it seemed like they had never seen a customer before - I got hit up by probably no less than 6 people and all I was doing was shopping for a TV.