D.U.H.

 

1. So long as I have my handy gas siphon kit with me, let the prices rise sky high!!!!!

   Posted by rudebadger       04/27/2006  at  07:15 AM  



2. Badger, I’d be careful. Around my neck of the woods that will get you perferated and a nasty case of lead poisoning

   Some folks don’t have a sense of humor about that kind of behavior

   Posted by The Fatman       04/27/2006  at  08:09 AM  



3. Badger, it’s funny how you should mention siphoning gas.  I park the truck in the back yard with the dogs.  34 gallons is a lot of bucks to have siphoned.  If they can get past the fence, dogs and locking cap, there is still the shotgun to contend with.

   I remember when I was in grade school (before all the little districts got consolidated) and my school leased a bus from a place in town, but parked it at the school.  One evening the bus driver had filled the tank, parked the bus, and went home.  Overnight, someone pried the hatch open, ripped off the cap (both hatch and cap were locked) and siphoned the whole tank of 50 gallons.  The next morning, about halfway through the bus route, it ran out and we all sat there for a half hour while the company ran another bus out.  This was before cell phones.  We were about a half mile from the nearest house, so the driver had to walk all the way down, call, then come back, etc.  Would have been about 1976, I think.

   Posted by John C       04/27/2006  at  08:25 AM  



4. Back then, gas siphoning would have been the rage, indeed. And then we elected Jimmy Carter.

   Posted by Macker       04/27/2006  at  08:32 AM  



5. Yeah, Carter. 

   I was driving down the freeway yesterday, and starting smelling diesel fuel.  For about 10 miles, it looked like some trucker lost about 50 gallons because there was a solid trail about a foot wide right down the middle of one lane.  At 65 mph, you’ve got to be dumping it fast to leave that amount on the road.  Whoever it was, happened to have got off the freeway on the same exit I needed, and there was a huge pool of diesel right at the traffic light.  Slippery stuff; I watched cars spin and slide through it.  They must have lost 50 gallons overall.  At $3 per gallon, that was a costly leak.

   Posted by John C       04/27/2006  at  08:41 AM  



6. Locking gas caps on the cars - check!
   Loaded S&W .40 next to window - check!
   Clear line of sight between window and cars’ fuel hatches - check!

   Posted by shinjinrui       04/27/2006  at  04:51 PM  



7. Department of Unusually High Prices is DUHP (pronounced ‘dupe’) not DUH.

   Posted by Christopher       04/27/2006  at  05:26 PM  

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