Retrofitted truck used to steal diesel fuel from gas station

[TheMightyFavog]

Police believe an Ohio asphalt contractor used a retrofitted pickup truck and trailer to steal thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from a Mercer County gas station.

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He said the truck was parked above the BP gas underground storage tanks at a convenience store. The trailer was rigged with a trap door along with rubber flaps to conceal the operation.

Someone inside the trailer would siphon diesel fuel from the storage tanks using the pickup truck's engine as a vacuum to pump it into a rigged propane tank inside the trailer.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Abbie Hoffman talk about doing this very same thing in Steal This Book!? I'd have thought that gas stations had some way of securing the fill holes since that book came out 40 years ago.

The guy's still a major league asshat. He's dicking over the wrong guy. I hope they throw the book at him.