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While it is to be expected, it is unfortunate that posts like this actually can give people ideas, as well as what to look out for i.e tragetting construction sites. Here in Australia there is another type of remote business which has seen fuel thefts but I'm not going to tell you what it is.
If rationing is introduced I imagine that fuel thefts will become even more prevalent.
In California's Central Valley the large farms have remote diesel storage tanks that get hit.
Hey, thats a great idea!
Thanks, now this site is likely to be targetted by the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.
"Oh my god they're spreading ideas on how to commit acts of domestic terra...please save us. Round them up, put em in camps."
This is yet one more example of how humanity will quickly fall off the slippery slope into oblivion once we go over the peak. People really are so selfish and stupid that they will do $200 to $2000 worth of damage to a vehicle just to get $50 in gas. Not to mention the loss in productivity for the person whose tank got drilled... When people are willing to do this, it is a harbinger of a total collapse of civilization. It is the same mentality that leads to riots and the property damage that accompanies it, and the economic consequences that always follow.
Tell me about it. I had some thieves do $700 damage to a convertible top to take an ipod charger and a CD case filled with worthless copied CDs. Selfish and stupid indeed.
@Iconoclast421
I agree with you. I wish more people would think like you...
The human brain has not really evolved beyond petty self-interest and greed. Human beings, it seems to me, are incapable of working together for the greater good of humanity. IF humans were really so smart, we would have put this oil energy to a better use, by preparing for the future, instead of fighting wars and killing one another. Maybe we could have eradicated hunger from Africa. But we cannot work together. There is always a "me-first" mentality.
Is southwest scotland (lots of farmland and rural communities) it is central heating oil tanks that are being hit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7509062.stm
I think thieves fall into 2 groups, the first is so dumb that they wouldn't be able to read this website and the second already knows how to steal fuel.
There are now lots of news items on fuel theft. Today I saw one on a service station that has installed tyre spikes and last week another item on a car parked near a rail commuter station that had been siphoned twice.
2 weeks ago i filled my daughters car and had to pre pay, the first (but undoubtedly the last) time that I had experienced this. This was 3pm in western Sydney.
About 15 years ago in rural NSW a farmer accosted a thief stealing fuel from his tank one night. He fired a warning shot into the car that the thief was filling. Unfortunatly the thief's girlfriend was hiding in the car and was wounded. The farmer was charged and sued for injuries and basically ruined. I expect more such violence (from both thieves, victims and frustrated motorists) as the fuel supply and economy turn bad.
I have no sympathy for the theif nor his girlfriend. If you're tresspassing on someone's land or stealing from someone, you should EXPECT to get shot at!
This is TOD Europe. We don't shoot people in Europe for theft or trespassing. At least not on the average :)
In America you can't shoot thieves and their girlfriends out of season.
Oh my gosh... blaming reporting the incident for causing more incidents? People like you apparently believe in security through obscurity, but security experts will tell you that such ideas are nonsensical.
Scapegoating! Scapegoating rather than focusing on the core problem. Classic! Completely classic human behavior! Let's blame those who report such incidents for causing more such incidents!
Sheesh. And people wonder why I am a doomer?