Gas Theives on the Rise

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/141199?GT1=43002

 

The surveillance tape shows a white car pulling up to a Chevron station in Charlotte, N.C., after closing time. Two men emerge, tinker with a gas pump and somehow manage to activate it. Before long, vehicles begin filing through, as the two men direct them and help fill up their tanks. One trucker tops off at least three 55-gallon drums. The video shows drivers paying off the two men and making calls on their cell phones, perhaps summoning friends to partake in the bonanza. "I watched at least 20 cars come through over several hours" on the surveillance footage, says Detective Bill Riggins of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, who is investigating the incident. "It was organized. [The two men] appeared to know who was coming." The night's haul: roughly 800 gallons, leaving the gas station owner on the hook for about $4,000.

 

Like one of the people who commented said, this could eventually make the headlines in a more deadly way. Drilling holes into gas tanks, and cutting lines... too ez to spark something, and then, fire and boom. Also all the other vapors and !@#$%^&* from popping the tank caps, etc.

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I would Syphon Filter the fuel from other cars.

[★ doc flabby]

I would Syphon Filter the fuel from other cars.

The reason why cars have locks on there fuel caps are a result of the last time oil when expensive in the 1970s

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Boring.. I'm waiting for the Russian mafia bootleggers to come back into style. Gas thievery is only worth a few thousand bucks, but bootlegging runs into the millions.