How not to steal gas

[jakeXT]

Times are tough. And desperate times often spur desperate people to do dumb things. Like steal gas. And risk injury doing so. (You shouldn't steal gas, ever.)
 
Somewhere in southeast Queensland, Australia, a filling station is likely gushing gas and a barely clad female is nursing more than her fair share of nicks and bruises -- on account of the most boneheaded gas heist ever.
 
A Surveillance camera at this Mt. Warren Park gas station caught this woman emerging from her car to fill her tank:

After one of the operators approached the car to check the plates, the driver, determined to steal that gas, lurched away, launching our accomplice into the air:

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/tv/blogs/uproar-blogpost.aspx?post=ac01e727-dbb7-47c7-9be4-d6b4cdb22472&gt1=28130

[Baitball Blogger]

1. If this were better times for everyone, I might find this amusing.

[onehandle]

2. Exactly what I was thinking. nt

[SwissTony]

4. Sorry, I have to disagree.

I can't find any of this as funny.

We've got theft, the chance of possible injury to the thief (I'm assuming she was in on the plan), damage to the pump (and inconvenience to other customers because the the pump was switched off), waste of petrol.

Plus the plates are clearly readable on the video. So, the chance of getting away with it is zero.

I enjoy a laugh as much as anyone, but this does not appeal to my sense of humour.

[In_The_Wind]

3. It's never a good idea to steal gas.

[OriginalGeek]

5. I did that once

not steal gas but drove off with the nozzle still in the tank.


In a company van.


Oddly enough, THAT wasn't the incident that got me fired.

[jakeXT]

6. Happens to the best

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1805567/f1_singapore_ferrari_team_fuel_hose_disloged_at_pitstop/

[Major Nikon]

7. I saw a gas station owner bust out the window of a gas thief

He had a large broom handle that he threw at this woman's front window as she drove off. It completely smashed it from end to end and there's now way she could have gotten very far. Another time he hurled it at a truck and busted out the back window. It scared the driver so much he ran into the opposite curb as he was getting away and blew out both tires on that side.