Thieves Reprogram Pumps To Steal Gas

[dogday]

BALTIMORE -- Two Baltimore area gas stations lost gas and money after thieves got a hold of a master key to reprogram the pumps to steal gas.

The gas station owners said the reprogramming was done in such a way that the transactions didn't register inside the station so the owners had no idea that the gas was gone until they got their weekly totals.

At one of the stations, Riaz Ahmid, the owner, said over 2,800 gallons of gas was stolen costing about $9,000. And at a BP Station on Russell Street, the owner, Majid Hussain, said about 900 gallons was taken valued at about $2,700.

And witnesses said at one of the stations, a person was seen standing at the altered pump collecting money from people.

http://www.nbc4.com/news/9036607/detail.html

[populistdriven]

1. It is amazing it took this long for such an incident to occur

[skylarmae]

2. I've got a bet with my Dad as to when the first tanker trucks

will start getting hijacked....

[DS1]

8. Yeah, they might get hijacked but it one does more will

because those tanker nozzles aren't quite adapted to those tiny car intakes, in other words, you're going to have find a place to store it all for redistribution. Mad Max 2 and all that.

[Turbineguy]

10. Adapters are easy to obtain.

[DS1]

12. Fine

You get an adapter that takes a fuel tanker to a car's .75" opening. Now you have to get it so it doesn't fill up the tank, and flood the room in about a second flat.

[raccoon]

3. Why flipping not, since Diebold, Harris, and others stole our votes? nt

[RebelOne]

4. Stealing is stealing and there is no justification

for these people stealing gas from stations.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

6. No justification, ever?

So stealing food when your family is starving is just as wrong as shoplifting some jewelry?

[raccoon]

9. Right.

I'm just so disgusted with us average Americans being screwed six ways from Sunday by BushCo.

[fasttense]

5. When the economy goes down the drain, crime increases.

I hope the top 1% in the US enjoys the crime plagued country they created.

[MADem]

7. OK, who remembers ODD-EVEN from back in the DARK AGES???

Ah, the muse has MOVED ME!!!

Gather round, children, and let me tell you the tale,
Of gas costs, and scarcity, beyond the pale!

It was back in the year of Seventy-Nine,
Ayatullah Khomeini kicked out the Shah's line.

He closed his spigots, his jawbone slammed shut,
He told the Great Satan to shut the fuck up!

Oil prices went up, and resources down,
No wonder Americans all wore a frown!

If your plate number was even, you filled up today,
If odd, you waited until the next day.

You locked up your gas tank, but that didn't work,
Many gas tanks were punctured, and drained, by some jerk.

This wasn't the first time we were screwed to a tee,
The Arabs embargoed back in Seventy Three!

You'd think we'd have learned that we shouldn't rely
on others for things that we simply must buy.

For without alternatives to costly, scarce gas
We're stuck at home, in the dark, freezing cold, on our ass.

[dogday]

11. Excellent Post

:hi: