Lock up your gas
June 12th, 2008 by Wade Tatangelo in Random Acts
“Do you have a lock on your gas cap?” asked my buddy Buck.
“No,” I replied.
“Well, you better get one,” he scolded. “When gas hits $4-a-gallon people are going to start stealing it.”
This was a few months back. I blew Buck off. Thought the odds of guys in ski masks running around siphoning gasoline out of cars with a garden hose was pretty slim.
But this morning I went for a walk around my SoHo neighborhood and spotted a black Mercedes sedan with its open fuel cap dangling in the wind — and had to wonder. Did someone suck the gas from the tank, or did the owner simply forget to put the cap back on after he hit the petro station?
Am I being paranoid or is Buck right about me needing to invest in a fuel cap lock?
June 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Just ask the auto parts stores if people are locking up their gas tanks. They have a lot of stories that people tell them. Gas tank locking caps are in demand.
Not only is gas being siphoned but some of the low cost vehicles also have plastic gas tanks and those are being punctured and drained. Less of a chance of the car burning up.
Gives me a image of the movied tiled “Cheech and Chong’s Next movie” where they are walking down the street with a trash can full of gasoline.