Readers of our first post (you three know who you are) might have caught the link to the ’sex for gas’ story, proof positive that the combination of high gas prices and criminal behavior can make for some pretty good material.
And without further adieu, we introduce you to the G&C Police Blotter. We begin today with a report out of New York about the gas prices-linked rise of a time-honored brand of petro-crime. No, not the gas station version of the dine-and-dash, though drive-offs are on the rise too.
Today’s New York Post has a story about ‘gas $uckers,’ the perps who run around with hoses and siphon-pumps and steal the gas right out the tank of your car. Even when it’s parked in your driveway, as Rose Capone of Staten Island learned when she found her formerly gassed-up Beemer on empty.
And it’s by no means just a NY thing, as gas $uckers have recently been caught everywhere from New Jersey (‘brothers that steal gas together….’) to Florida, as well as Oregon, Utah, Canada, even the UK.
In other petro-crime news: a man seriously burned stealing gas five years ago tries again and gets…caught (we couldn’t bring ourselves to the pun…sorry); a golf course employee caught stealing gas from the carts; pickups are being specifically modified to steal gas; idiots drilling for gas: couple leaves behind a drill engraved with the husband’s name while attempting to steal fuel; man busted for a $50K gas heist, and; 100 people brawl at a gas station over…a pack of cigarettes (cause not every gas-related crime has to do with gas prices).
wow–now that gas is the new currency, my dad’s shell card can buy me more than just luna bars and vitamin water. nice.