Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight

[katty]

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http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=294c7893-a059-43bd-81ce-afc69f90cff2

Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight

Last Update: 1:23 pm

Detroit police say a war between two gas stations took a shocking and tragic turn with a station owner shooting his rival who was irate over a gas-price cut.


The shooting happened around 10:45 a.m. at the Marathon station near the corner of Springwells and Fort Street in southwest Detroit.
Investigators say the confrontation started when the owner of the BP station on that corner went to the Marathon station to discuss with its owner why he'd dropped the price for a gallon of unleaded gas to $2.93 per gallon, three cents less than BP.

The discussion quickly escalated...

[SteppingRazor]

1. You didn't even post the best part:

"In a wild post-script, it appears the BP station is taking advantage of the shooting. While police are still swarming the Marathon station, the BP has jacked up its prices. WXYZ's Bill Proctor reports that as soon as the owner's body was taken away, workers at BP changed the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09."

Wow.

[katty]

2. lordy-that is just so sick

[Mojambo]

3. dupe

[Mojambo]

4. Paging Law and Order writers... n/t

[eFriendly]

5. Tragic, but...

I used to work for a Hess gas station, and I would have to drive around the area and write down the prices of gas at rival stations and call them into the office. They then would instruct me on what price to set our gas at for the day. I never had a problem. But I can say (having been in the position of the station manager) that if I was in the store and an "irate" rival from across the street came into my store yelling and ranting about our prices, ensuing into a brawl, I would have shot him, too.

Now, that may sound a bit cold. But that is just the way it is.