Alright....here's the story...and I AM p!ssed about it!
Friday afternoon: leave for work, sstop at the gas station for a Mt Dew on the way to work, noticed the gas lid on the VW was popped open, I went to push it shut and noticed that the tab that latches it was bent...hmmm? Fixed quickly, got Dew, went to work(1/2 - 3/4 tank of gas)
Friday night: Leave work to go home....everything was normal, get home, gas gauge same as before....cool!
Saturday: run some errands, no big deal, gas close to 1/2 tank...normal
Sunday afternoon: Go to grandparents house about 4 blocks away, visit with them for a little while, go to store 1/2 tank of gas...come home and watch some movies, go to bed about 2am.
Monday morning: Wife gets up to take the boy to a friends house...noticed gas light was on and tank was friggin' empty...go to gas station to put in fuel and noticed gas lid was pryed open and cap was missing!
Called police and made out report...he tells me there is nothing that they can do about it but to call them if I see anything unusual...
I proceed to tell him that it was unusual to find my gas gone overnight and will take matters into my own hands if they are caught in the act...police doesn't encourage that behavior, but it is my word against the thief's....
4 foot crowbar to the middle of the back in maybe a broken arm/leg or crushed nutsack will teach them to steal anything of mine ever again....
Gas isn't that expensive to get your *** handed to you and then go to jail over!
Later,
WEIMER(just had to ***** about it)
I had a similar experience with people stealing gas from me. I had a 5 gallon gas can on my trailer for my equipment use. I would fill this can up once a week, I don't use more than 5 gallons a week. Well my can started to end up empty every other day so I switched my gas cans around and put a 2 stoke fuel can in its place, 5 gallons worth. The next morning when I was leaving my house I checked my can and it was empty and low and behold there were 2 kids pushing there car down the street. I guess 2 stroke fuel and cars just don't get along, I mixed it extra rich just for them.:thumbup:
BTW, I haven't had a problem with people stealing gas since then.
Better yet, maybe you should conveniently leave a gas can out for the gas thieves, fill it with gas, sugar, a little sand or something else that motors just love.
When I was younger I had someone break into my car and steal the nut that holds on the steering wheel. They put the horn button back on and made it look normal. I started her up and put it in gear and off came the steering wheel. Just think if it came off while doing 55 down the road. Very bad joke. Never had any enemies ( except the town bully) that I know of.
Burns me up totally too. I though of stuff like taping razor blades to the gas cap but never did it. When I was going to college, guys kept breaking into our dorm room and stealing our candy stash. My roomie got real tired of that and went out on the lawn and collected a handful of ever present rabbit droppings. Then he spent the entire evening wrapping the pellets in Nestle's chocolate. He put the creations into a Milk Duds box, put the box on the top of our candy stash and went to class. When we got back, sure enough, the candy was stolen but that is the last time we ever had that problem!
buy a locking gas cap or put antiseize on the cap or something that will stain there hands.
i would watch the neighborhood kids it is most likely someone that lives near you if they keep going to you for gas.
but i do like the cyanide idea:thumbup:
If you have a webcam, I have a software package that turns it into a motion detector. I had mine set up to watch my car in the parking lot of my old apartments I used to live in.
You can set it up to mask out everything else around your car that would detect movement. When it detects movement in the specified range, it will record as a movie file, take still frames at intervals, start a program, play a sound file, or even call your cell phone or pager (as long as you aren't on the net at the time through dial up)
It's called GOTCHA and it's spyware. If you want a full version copy, PM me. Good Luck finding them.
I had a similar experience with people stealing gas from me. I had a 5 gallon gas can on my trailer for my equipment use. I would fill this can up once a week, I don't use more than 5 gallons a week. Well my can started to end up empty every other day so I switched my gas cans around and put a 2 stoke fuel can in its place, 5 gallons worth. The next morning when I was leaving my house I checked my can and it was empty and low and behold there were 2 kids pushing there car down the street. I guess 2 stroke fuel and cars just don't get along, I mixed it extra rich just for them.:thumbup:
Soak a rag in "sliver nitrate" and USING GLOVES put it over the gas cap - - - - - IF they touch this rag, they will have a brown stain on their hands that can't be removed any way except by wearing it off :boxing: :spank: ain:
Someone was stealing tractor gas, My dad mixed sugar and put the stuff in the tractor at the end of farming season. A few weeks later a couple kids stole gas and it gummed up their engine. easy to tell who did it. before reusing the tractors , he rinsed the tanks a couple times and used the contaminated stuff to burn weeds. There is a guy a few miles away still known as Diesel Dave. 50 years later, his car blew white smoke for a while then didn't want to run. The farm kids knew diesel smells different.
I remember it happening in the late 70's when I was a little kid.The neighbors always were getting their gas stolen, not us- Locking gas caps. Solved the problem
Don't know about everyone else but it would not do for me to catch someone stealing something that belonged to me - - - the worse part is, that I would probably end up in the pen for protecting my property :nono:
for a while we had a problem with gas thieves were i work.
every time we got a car in and parked it in the back lot, the tank got rained.
we left a plastic gas can out in the back lot over a week end by a car that had the gas stolen out of it. monday the gas can was gone.
1 gallon of gas + 1 gallon of bleach. the problem stopped.
later on we started getting hit again.
we had a pickup come in that was getting a new tank because of a small hole near the top of it. it had a few gallons of gas, so we put in a few gallons of bleach. sure enough it was drained the next day.
so far we haven't had anymore gas stolen.
We had some local punks siphoning our trucks, just a few gallons at a time. I finally noticed it on mileage checks. I forgot a five gallon can, nearly full, beside my truck when cutting grass. Next morning it was gone. I've got(had) about 8 cans(we keep alot on hand during hurricanes). So I took an older one and used Jim's trick, left it out and sure enough it grew legs and walked off. So I did another batch and left it out. After it sat there for about a month, I figured the punks had decided to leave me alone.
This reminds me of how to get rid of old appliances, a friend had a old freezer that he replaced with a bigger one. He put it out with a sign, "Free, works good". After it sat for a week or so, he changed the sign to, "For Sale $150 OBO", that night it was stolen. :thumbup: olnolan
Don't know about everyone else but it would not do for me to catch someone stealing something that belonged to me - - - the worse part is, that I would probably end up in the pen for protecting my property :nono:
Alright....here's the story...and I AM p!ssed about it!
Friday afternoon: leave for work, sstop at the gas station for a Mt Dew on the way to work, noticed the gas lid on the VW was popped open, I went to push it shut and noticed that the tab that latches it was bent...hmmm? Fixed quickly, got Dew, went to work(1/2 - 3/4 tank of gas)
Friday night: Leave work to go home....everything was normal, get home, gas gauge same as before....cool!
Saturday: run some errands, no big deal, gas close to 1/2 tank...normal
Sunday afternoon: Go to grandparents house about 4 blocks away, visit with them for a little while, go to store 1/2 tank of gas...come home and watch some movies, go to bed about 2am.
Monday morning: Wife gets up to take the boy to a friends house...noticed gas light was on and tank was friggin' empty...go to gas station to put in fuel and noticed gas lid was pryed open and cap was missing!
Called police and made out report...he tells me there is nothing that they can do about it but to call them if I see anything unusual...
I proceed to tell him that it was unusual to find my gas gone overnight and will take matters into my own hands if they are caught in the act...police doesn't encourage that behavior, but it is my word against the thief's....
4 foot crowbar to the middle of the back in maybe a broken arm/leg or crushed nutsack will teach them to steal anything of mine ever again....
Gas isn't that expensive to get your *** handed to you and then go to jail over!
Later,
WEIMER(just had to ****** about it)
the 4 foot crowbar sounds good. i d like to take that to ALL the oil company executives. they only been stealing gas from us since 05, and still are. atleast 2 to 3 gallon per 1 gallon i buy.
Hymmmm,and I thought moderators set higher standards of behavior for themselves....sounds like a punk kid with nothing to do.....I found the thread kinda interesting,looks like a few others did too... :nono:Thanks for raising this old thread "Chalenger" I liked that silver nitrate deal.Welcome to the HR site ...better luck with your second post... :thumbup:
LOL, LMAO, This would be about the 10th time I've responded to a zombie thread. I don't ever think of checking the date. LOL, Got me again! :spank: olnolan
the 4 foot crowbar sounds good. i d like to take that to ALL the oil company executives. they only been stealing gas from us since 05, and still are. atleast 2 to 3 gallon per 1 gallon i buy.
Years ago we had a big mean dog tied up to the gas barrel. On more than one occasion we found the hose thrown down, apparently someone was in a big hurry to leave. Too bad the dog didn't break the chain.
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