Even happens here, where it's apparently kind-of-legal. Long before Chicago sold its meter rights, former Reagan Budget Director and then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels, sold the toll rights to the Indiana Toll Road to a Spanish-Australian consortium (that already owned the Chicago Skyway) in the early to mid-2000s, for a few billion. And every trucker driving from New York to Chicago or Chicago to NY has been paying out the ass ever since. And forevermore will.