feddoc
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My wife and I were on our way to take an early spring drive and had to fuel up before we got too far into the sorta unplanned trip.
As I pulled in to the station lot, I forget the name (its a national chain of fuel stations) I notice what I first assumed to be an employee (in uniform of the station) plunging her stick-gauge to determine how much gas was in a given tank.
As I pull up to the pump, I realize that she is not gauging for fuel level, but has a sort of 'super soaker' looking device and she is sucking liquid out of said tank, and squirting what now appears to be tan/brownish gas onto the asphalt...where it will eventually meet the storm drains.
I would guess there to be about 10 gallons pumped out. And the fumes were very, very evident from 40-50 feet away, even with the windows up.
Two things...Imma not buy gas at that station, not ever. And, I don't wanna get burned, so, we left.
Called 911 to report it; local SO was there in less than half a block. 911 operator asked why I didn't hang around.....
As I pulled in to the station lot, I forget the name (its a national chain of fuel stations) I notice what I first assumed to be an employee (in uniform of the station) plunging her stick-gauge to determine how much gas was in a given tank.
As I pull up to the pump, I realize that she is not gauging for fuel level, but has a sort of 'super soaker' looking device and she is sucking liquid out of said tank, and squirting what now appears to be tan/brownish gas onto the asphalt...where it will eventually meet the storm drains.
I would guess there to be about 10 gallons pumped out. And the fumes were very, very evident from 40-50 feet away, even with the windows up.
Two things...Imma not buy gas at that station, not ever. And, I don't wanna get burned, so, we left.
Called 911 to report it; local SO was there in less than half a block. 911 operator asked why I didn't hang around.....