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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 02:10 PM
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Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight
Source: WXYZ Detroit

Detroit police say a war between two gas stations took a shocking and tragic turn with a station owner shooting his rival who was irate over a gas-price cut.

The shooting happened around 10:45 a.m. at the Marathon station near the corner of Springwells and Fort Street in southwest Detroit.
Investigators say the confrontation started when the owner of the BP station on that corner went to the Marathon station to discuss with its owner why he'd dropped the price for a gallon of unleaded gas to $2.93 per gallon, three cents less than BP.

The discussion quickly escalated into a fight with two more people from the BP station brawling with rivals at Marathon. One man was hit with a baseball bat in the melee. And then, police say, the 51-year-old owner of the Marathon station pulled out a gun and shot the owner of the BP, a 45-year-old father of five children.

In a wild post-script, it appears the BP station is taking advantage of the shooting. While police are still swarming the Marathon station, the BP has jacked up its prices. WXYZ's Bill Proctor reports that as soon as the owner's body was taken away, workers at BP changed the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09.



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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 02:12 PM
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1. How sad, the jerk killed a father of 5.
I hope he never gets out of prison.

It totally evades me on why someone would be that stupid - to kill someone which comes along with ending up in prison for such dumb reasons.
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 02:56 PM
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4. Typically in cases like this people aren't thinking.
They're reacting purely out of emotion, not logic... the phrase "crime of passion" is usually associated with illicit romance, but it's sometimes appropriate for cases where people let their rage run away with them.
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walnutpie Donating Member (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 03:02 PM
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5. This sounds like self defense
Edited on Fri Nov-16-07 03:03 PM by walnutpie
BP guy confronts Marathon guy at Marathon.

More BP guys and more Marathon guys get involved.

Someone pulls a bat.

A Marathon guy shoots a BP guy.

If the BP guy had the bat and was assaultng the Marathon guy at the Marathon guy's place of business, the shooting may well have been justified.
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IndyDurham Donating Member (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-28-07 03:20 PM
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8. Aggression. Impulsivity.
The prisons are full of it. And the prevalence of guns in the hands of such people.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 02:30 PM
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2. ahhh, Detroit...
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 08:16 PM
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7. Ahhh, competition. Ahhh, entrepreneurship...
:eyes:

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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 02:49 PM
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3. Another casualty of that POS*'s oil war.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 03:15 PM
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6. What would have been the ironies of all ironies is if the bullets
hit the pumps and the stations exploded, but then again life isn't like a terminator movie. lol
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GigiMommy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:45 AM
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9. What a sad...
turn of events all around.
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riverdale Donating Member (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 02:42 AM
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10. Never bring a baseball bat to a gun fight
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