One of our neighbors has three trucks, a car, and a camper. Not to mention some motorcycles. As you can imagine, it costs a lot of gas to fill those puppies up. Especially since the average person needs to take out a second mortgage to afford gas for a compact car these days.The other day, my hub noticed that someone pulled into this neighbor's side yard. parking among his "fleet" of automobiles. This Intruder got out of his own truck and just stood there for a while, surveying the scene. And then, he left. Odd.
So that evening when Jet took the girls on a walk, he stopped to tell our neighbor what he saw: the description of the truck, man, and license plate. Our neighbor was so greatful that Jet took the time to take note of that. And then he proceeded to tell Jet that someone from our neighborhood had recently had their gas tanks emptied in the middle of the night.
Excuse me?!
He went on to show Jet what he had bought to insure that this would not happen to him.
Locking gas caps.
Now, maybe you're more clued in than I am. Maybe you not only have heard of these things, but own some as well. But just in case, I wanted to share my little discovery this weekend: People steal gas straight from your tanks. AND there are things on the market to protect against these midnight thieves.
We decided that it was worth the (average of) $15 to protect the $60 that it takes to fill up our tanks. So I wanted to share...
2 comments:
This is so funny because where I live not only do we not lock our gas tanks OR cars, we leave the keys in it AND leave it running (if it is really cold) WHILE we go in to the store to grab a few things...they might as well just take the whole car. :)
Wow. People will really come up to your house and take gas right out of your car?! Some people will steal anything.
I'll have to look into that thing.
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