New crime because of gas prices... Someone syphoned my tank

[greenbriar]

I filled up my car 59 dollars

then went to visit hubbys gma in hospital


came back out after about an hour and started my car to have the low tank beep


WTF???



this will happen more as the higher gas becomes

[Mojambo]

1. By September it's gonna be like frickin Mad Max. n/t

[Richard D]

2. By September . . .

. . . it'll probably be felony grand theft.

[Strelnikov_]

9. "Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war"

My life fades, the vision dims, all that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams, this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior. The man we called Max.

To understand who he was you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel, and the deserts sprouted great cities of pipe and steel.

Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They had built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered, and stopped. Their leaders talked, and talked, and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear.

Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage, would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.

And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed, men like Max, the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine he lost everything. He became a shell of a man, a burnt-out desolate man. A man haunted by the demons in his past. A man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.

Opening Dialog, “The Road Warrior”, 1981

[rucky]

13. That'll give me enough time to grow-out a mullet....

[Rick Myers]

16. Agreed!

That there is Cundalini... and Cundalini wants his hand back!

[ben_meyers]

3. During the "Arab oil embargo" of the 70's

you couldn't find a locking gas cap to save your life. Or an "emergency" siphon hose either for that matter.

[Iggo]

12. That's when I learned how to siphon gas.

Suck, don't swallow.

At least, I thought that's what I was learning....HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!!

[ben_meyers]

23. Actually blow, so to speak

Jam the hose and a rag into the filler neck and pressurize the tank, that will force the gas back out.

[Fridays Child]

4. Repukes see this as an investment oportunity: the locking gas cap market.

[eShirl]

5. I'm surprised we haven't been hearing more about this lately, considering the prices

Back during the Arab Oil Embargo days ('73-74 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis ) there were stories in the newspapers all the time about gas siphoning.

Some people even died from accidental gasoline ingestion (iirc, swallowing as little as a quarter teaspoon is lethal).

[Buzz Clik]

6. We went through this during the 70s oil embargo. There are anti-siphon gadgets.

We'll all be getting them soon.

[MessiahRp]

7. Not a new crime by any means...

Had it happen to me last year... though I admit mine was funnier because I only had a quarter tank and it was freezing the day they did it.

Rp

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Sooner or later it must come down to

this...

[margotb822]

10. I'm thankful for technology

My gas tank locks when the car is locked. I always wondered why. Now I know!

[Lint Head]

11. More than that is going to happen. People get desperate

when funds get low. As prices rise on stuff, more stuff will be stolen. More people will be killed to steal things.
The result of Republican tactics, no matter how noble, is always DEATH! The answer to everything for a Republican is to kill
or to let people die one way or the other. A person that doesn't believe that will be the next victim. :dem:

[spanone]

14. happened a lot in the 70's...locking gas cap

[Warpy]

15. Yep,

You're going to need one of these:

On edit: thou shalt not borrow bandwidth without a link: http://www.cgenterprises.com/fuelcaps/

[FSogol]

17. This happed all the time in the 70s. Buy yourself a locking gas cap. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

18. Unfortonately I think stealing gas will be the least

of our problems if things start to really get desperate.

[Possumpoint]

19. I bought

locking gas caps when prices climbed after hurricane Katrina. Learned my lesson after the gas crisis in 1973. A few days later, my neighbor had his gas siphoned in his driveway.

The only problem is there's those that are and will be so desperate that they resort to puncturing the tank to steal gas. History repeats itself.

[Mojambo]

20. I never have more than a quarter of a tank in my truck nowadays

So I'm not a real juicy target.

[KharmaTrain]

21. Shades Of 1974...

Siphon hoses were the rage...I remember seeing ads for them in magazines. Also I would imagine "drive-offs" are up at the few remaining stations that haven't gone pay first.

This brings to mind the funny National Lampoon bit...John Belushi plays a dealing...but instead of Panama Red, he was dealing high grade Royal Dutch Gold and Marathon Superb...and only "a buck a bucket". Wouldn't ya know it, they find out it's not really Royal Dutch Gold, but Spic 'n Span...

:rofl:

In a very seroius vein...please be careful, as money gets tight, people will find ways to take or do whatever to get ahead.

[notadmblnd]

22. same thing happened in the 70's. buy a gas tank lock at the auto parts store

that should solve your problem.

[mdmc]

24. thats hardcore

damn

[lonestarnot]

25. Damn.

I'm sorry. Do you have a locking gas cap?

[all.of.me]

26. Old crime being recycled.

Bummer for you, though! This will increase, I'm sure. So will locking gas caps again.