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.
# posted by Fumers @ 3:12 PM 
