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Police say the device has enabled Talbot to avoid paying nearly $ 5,500 a fee, on Houston Road. (Harris County Post Office 4 Constable)

Houston police arrested a man who said he had avoided paying nearly $ 5,500 in fees on Houston roads with a "license plate flipper."

The police said, Preston Talbot, 27, Of Houston was stopped on Thursday to avoid a loss on the Sam Houston Expressway route and was charged with a misdemeanor.

Harris County Constable Mark Herman told KHOU-TV Friday. "It will activate this device, putting a flipper down in front of his license plate, at toll plazas could not read his plate.

CONSTABLES ARREST DRIVER FOR POSSESSION OF A LICENSE PLATE FLIPPER.

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Talbot is accused of installing the device in his car at the touch of a button, according to the station reported.

Mark Herman said Talbot owes  $5,473.07 in unpaid tolls

These devices are advertised online but are illegal in Texas.

"Obviously this was a stupid mistake from my son," Talbot's mother Becki Morgan told the station.

"I have a Texas tag on my car and I do everything legally," Morgan said. "I was not interested in shortening the system and was not aware that my son was".

"Preston Cody Talbot was arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail, charged with Possession of a License Plate Flipper. His bond was set at $100.00 out of County Court 15." -Constable Mark Herman.

what is a license plate flipper

there is a company that offers an electronic license plate flipper of the sort that Bond used to conceal his identity from prying eyes. The $79.00 Vehicle Plate Flipper doesn't allow you to impersonate a Swiss or French driver, but it does flip down at a 90 degree angle at the press of a button to display a message on an underlying plate for the driver behind you. There's also a special $74.99 version for motorcycles.

We're not sure that this gadget will ever become widely popular, though, in part because some of the device's conceivable uses -- hiding your identity from red light cameras and police, or provoking tailgaters with taunting messages -- could get drivers in a lot of trouble. Indeed, the company that sells the device attaches a disclaimer to its Web site, warning that the gadgets are "STRICTLY intended for off-road use only" and informing potential customers that they take responsibility "for all liabilities associated with the use or misuse of our product"