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The theft of 7,300 gallons of gasoline was reported Saturday by the owner of a Shell station in the 5800 block of North 27th Avenue.

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"Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams -

Make your statement.

[Petronski]

Hmmm. Couldn't it just as easily be a failure of the underground storage tank?

[DefCon]

"...the gas, which was taken from tanks below ground level..."
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Somebody better be checking for a leak.

[stboz]

Let us hope this was meer theft for profit.

[sistergoldenhair]

Sounds like he didn't get his last delivery.
Tanker pulls up, puts the hose on the underground tank, collects the cash.
The owner doesn't check his levels, runs out of gas and assumes it was stolen.

[SJSAMPLE]

Logically, this is one of the worst kinds of theft: high weight, high volume, storage and transport requirements.

The only thing the thief has going for him is that one gallon of gasoline is indiscernable from another.

[Lazamataz]

I admit it.

I drove off without paying.

I'm such a baaaaaaaad boy.

[Delta 21]

Ive heard of this kind of thing only with smaller amounts. There was incidents in New Mexico of Hazardous waste companies using two trucks. One empty, to pump out all your good gas so they could steal it....another truck with a few thousand gallons of waste oil or some other liquid hazardous waste they didnt want to pay to dispose of, that they replace in the now empty tank. There are probably a lot of old abandon gas station underground tanks that are supposed to be empty but are not.

[Teacher317]

Rather than stealing an empty tanker and filling it from a service station, why didn't they just steal a full tanker?

[Cobra64]

It's a Dick Cheney conspiracy since he was CEO of Haliburton.

[mtbopfuyn]

Three things come to mind:

1) Hoover Dam - an explosion would not be a good thing

2) Mexico - $$$

3) Indian Reservation - they have their own LE