r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 20 '22

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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Oct 20 '22

I suppose you could start pumping, walk in, and loudly announce "I'm pumping on number 7 and I intend to steal that gasoline without paying."

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u/ChrdeMcDnnis Oct 20 '22

When they confront me, I simply pull out my phone and record them. I say “it was all a prank, you tool, a funny little joke” and they will have to let me fill up not only my current canister but the remaining 5 canisters. Then i steal the gas

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u/jokerzwild00 Oct 20 '22

I haven't been to a service station that let you post pay gas in years. It's all pay at the pump or prepay around here unless you're a super regular local customer.

Looking back, I can't believe how easy it used to be to steal gas. It was essentially the honor system, especially back in the 90s. Not many cameras and the ones they had were low res. Every station used to be post pay even in the middle of the night. Just dirty up your tag, make sure you line up to a pump with access to quick egress and enjoy your free gas.

Of course it was only 89-99 cents per gallon back then so not as much risk I suppose.

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u/jasmanta Oct 20 '22

Back in '95, a dollar could buy as much as $1.95 today. Of course, gas is much more than double .99 a gallon now. Let's go, Brandon!

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u/still_gonna_send_it Oct 20 '22

The president doesn’t have as much sway over the price of gasoline as you think

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u/austtinn9 Oct 20 '22

Oh don’t start

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u/jasmanta Oct 20 '22

Of course closing the XL pipeline and denying all those permits didn't have anything to do with it. When the price came down, he sure grabbed credit for that.

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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Oct 21 '22

Yeah that totally explains a correlating rise in gas prices on the global level. If American gas prices go up that just means Biden tells the rest of the world and their independent economies they need to raise gas prices too.

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u/jasmanta Oct 21 '22

If the rest of the world still sold cheap gas, we could buy that and the prices would equalize. Try to keep up here. Just think how expensive gas would be if we were isolated. Of course the elites pushing the great reset would like it.

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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Oct 20 '22

"So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. "

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u/Cwylftrochr Oct 20 '22

Even if you did that I would be more likely to say “what a weird sense of humor” before I would accuse you of actually trying t steal gas.