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Javaman

(62,439 posts)
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 10:05 AM Sep 2012

Gasoline hording...

Buckets Of Gasoline Found Inside Philadelphia Garage
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/09/01/exclusive-buckets-of-gasoline-found-inside-philadelphia-garage/

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — With gas prices soaring, people in one Philadelphia neighborhood can only wonder why their neighbor had buckets of gas stored in a garage.

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“A strong odor of gasoline and it wasn’t natural gas,” said a concerned neighbor, who called 911 asked that we didn’t identify him. But his call prompted what we caught on camera: Workers in full haz-mat gear pulling gallons of gasoline from a Philadelphia home and dumping them into multiple fifty-gallon drums for safe removal.
When asked about his specific concern, the neighbor replied, “The neighborhood blowing up! You’re not supposed to store gas in your garage, not in unauthorized containers.”

According to sources, when police and fire crews arrived, they found at least 50 containers full of gasoline in the garage. Some were stored in approved containers but many, sources say, were not.

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But late Friday, a man, who only identified himself as the homeowner’s son, told Eyewitness News off camera that he did not realize he was doing anything wrong. He went onto explain that he was just buying cheap gas wherever he found it and storing it in his garage to save money.

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Gasoline hording... (Original Post) Javaman Sep 2012 OP
This is government regulations run wild! Sedona Sep 2012 #1
If you are caught putting gasoline into a milk jug or something, any responsible station attendant.. Systematic Chaos Sep 2012 #2

Sedona

(3,769 posts)
1. This is government regulations run wild!
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 10:17 AM
Sep 2012

An infringement on second amendment rights!



The science deniers will say its perfectly safe to store gasoline in buckets in your garage.

And none of it will be spelled correctly.

(I think I'll troll the CBS comments section with the above and see how many teahadists agree with it. I'll throw in a spelling error just to make it look authentic. Feel free to chime in with me)



Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
2. If you are caught putting gasoline into a milk jug or something, any responsible station attendant..
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 10:27 AM
Sep 2012

...would stop you immediately. I worked at a Unocal here in Vegas a number of years ago, and I nearly had to put a guy under citizens' arrest because he started threatening my life over putting gas into a milk jug. I mean the dude went ballistic! But had I been caught letting him do that, it would have been my job. The pay wasn't great but there was often tons of overtime so you take what you can get.

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