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I guess there is a first time for everything. Sometime last night the gas can (full of gas) I have bungeed to my tire carrier was stolen.  :fs1:   I suppose I was asking for it to happen, because I have never chained/locked it in. I just had the bungee. I wouldn’t be nearly as PO'ed about it if they had used the gas and tossed the can in the bed or something, but they took the whole thing. Cans aint cheap.

 

I checked with the apartment complex and they have no surveillance to speak of so I was SOL there. I looked in all the dumpsters on the premise to see if they disposed of it there with no luck, then I checked at all the Pawn shops in town and batted zero.

 

The diabolical portion of my brain kicked in and I started thinking of laying a trap for when/if they come again. Buy a new can, fill it with WATER, and just bungee it in again. I would have to have a stake out and watch for them, then follow in a different car until they breakdown. It would be sweet.

 

 

Or, a more convoluted plan.

 

 

Plant a tracker, somehow, on the can. I kinda want to put one on my truck too, because I have a real bad habit of leaving the keys in the ignition/ash tray/front seat. I suppose I am just to trusting of the general public.    :dunno: 

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because I have a real bad habit of leaving the keys in the ignition/ash tray/front seat. I suppose I am just to trusting of the general public.    :dunno: 

 

You and me both... having grown up in a small town, I also have developed the bad habit. I once left the keys in the ignition with the driver's door not just unlocked but standing wide open on campus long enough I ran down the battery far enough I couldn't start it last spring...

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Gasoline has a odor. A dummy may not notice but anybody else would. If I remember correctly water is heavier than gas so if you were to pour 1/2-1 gal of gas on top after filling the can with water. Another thing to consider. The revenge factor. After he figures out what happened he may want to get even. Sugar in the gas tank. Nails under the tires, etc, etc. You get the idea.

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Plus if its cold the water will freeze. Just fill it with gas and put sugar in it. Or let it go and be the better man. Learn from your mistakes, don't make new ones by trying to get revenge.

 

I also grew up/ live in a small town, so I know all about habits that you have to change moving to the city

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Another thing to consider. The revenge factor. After he figures out what happened he may want to get even. Sugar in the gas tank. Nails under the tires, etc, etc. You get the idea.

 

this. he knows who you are, you most likely won't know who he is. cut you losses and change your ways.

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The sugar gas works great, now thats karma if being stolen

 

Sugar does nothing. It doesn't dissolve in gasoline, so the worst it can do is plug up the sock on the fuel pump if you dump enough in. Works no better than sand, salt, or anything else you can throw in.

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Sugar does nothing. It doesn't dissolve in gasoline, so the worst it can do is plug up the sock on the fuel pump if you dump enough in. Works no better than sand, salt, or anything else you can throw in.

This.  You're better off doing the water trick.  Water sinks to the bottom and the fuel pump will suck it up first.

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In the old days,notice I didn't say 'Good old days' Before MPI and TBI there were carburators. Sugar made it up past what passed for a filter and the carb and into the combustion chamber very easily. I suppose another advantage of fuel injection.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I would be ticked off and beyond irritated much like yourself man. Honestly, let it go and learn from it. They obviously needed it more than you did and what's not to say they could not get to work and provide for their family without it? Be the bigger person and just let it go. In the far realm of possibility who knows, could be a single mother trying to scrape enough together to put food on the table and had no other options (highly, highly unlikely). I have learned that things are not always as they seem and most people will not take from one another unless they are in a really bad place. I have had stuff stolen off my Jeeps in the past and I get pissed for a bit then just chock it up to "well, they obviously needed it more than I did" and leave it at that. The karma factor could turn around and be worse for you than it would them. Hope that helps.

 

RockMJ

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