Friday, May 12, 2006
Anti-siphon Cars Get Drilled
Think your fuel filter baffles will stop the fumers? Not with $3+ gas prices:
Strangely, the Sacramento sherriff recommends "locking-gas caps are another tool in protecting your vehicle" though they would have been of no help here at all. "It would have cost me less if they had just been able to siphon it," said Vera.
Wednesday morning, when resident Anthony Vera tried to start his pickup, the fuel gauge showed empty and the pavement under the truck smelled of gas. He discovered a neatly drilled round hole near the bottom of the truck's plastic tank.
Checking the neighborhood, he found two more trucks of the same model with empty tanks and similar holes. Two of the pickups were parked in the neighborhood northwest of Broadway and 65th Avenue, and another farther south on 21st Avenue.
Strangely, the Sacramento sherriff recommends "locking-gas caps are another tool in protecting your vehicle" though they would have been of no help here at all. "It would have cost me less if they had just been able to siphon it," said Vera.
Keeping gas under lock and key
Bill Keep, Quinnipiac University, says,"It's a funny thing when people decide that rules no longer apply, in a certain sense, the market has disappointed them, the price of gas has gotten so high."
Quinnipiac University Marketing Professor Bill Keep explains that with oil companies making record profits, some feel a twisted sense of justification in siphoning gas from other people's tanks. A new phenomenon first reported in California.
The story has a video segment for people that don't know how to read (fumers).
