I’m surprised most dont know how to siphon gas. Even movies and TV portray it incorrectly. A job I had in high school, we never carried tanks. We just filled our mowers by siphoning from the big truck we used to haul everything around. We just had a cut rubber hose.
Not once did I ever get gas in my mouth, or even taste it.
Most cars for the past three decades have had baffles in the fuel filler neck, or a mechanism to prevent spills in a rollover, that prevent siphoning these days. The preferred method is drilling the tank, which is what this moron did.