Hey, hey, hey!
Posted on 09/25/2016 12:58:19 PM PDT by BBell
It’s good to watch out for convenience store clerks themselves, sometimes. Give them a twenty, they give change back for a ten. It happens too often not to be intentional. I’ve gotten so I watch where they put the bill, and tell them “here’s a twenty” beforehand. I’ve had a few that lied and denied it, insisting they got a ten. So, scammers all around.
Hey, hey, hey!
Short change artists, back in the day before electronic cash registers, were more common than they are now. Some of those guys were really good at screwing the help up, especially the younger ones.
There will always be scamming where there’s money and an inattentive or easily confused person in charge of it.
$2100 between the two suspects.
How old was that hose? There’s a check valve in it that shuts off the gas at the source so there’s no drainage. That advert that shows some guy draining what’s supposedly left in the hose into his tank. Next time you fill up and the pump shuts off, see if you can get anything but a few drips - maybe. It’s all due to the EPA regulations.
Indeed-my favorite part was the video of him walking while the reporter states “it was one of the fastest...” The guy was so big he could hardly move!
Archie Campbell: "Say rube, you got change for this $15.00 bill?"
Junior Samples: "Yep. A nine and two threes." :)
“Cash magicians”???
How about good, old fashioned con artists?
Sheesh, does EVERYTHING have to be PC?
Another widely practiced scam: “I am from the government and I am here to help.”
This was in the late 1950s. Maybe things were different then.
bump
Entry level jobs don’t require the smartest people. I’m not saying anything bad about the cashier.
And the perp... He shouldn’t be too hard to find.
haha ... good one
Probably pre-1974.
In the late '60's, I kept my tank pretty much full when I worked at a gas station.
Once I pumped for the customer (and did the oil check, cleaned the windshield, etc.) and he drove away, I would drain the hose into a 5 gallon can I kept on the pump island.
I could usually fill that can about three times a week.
Back then, the hose handles had a pop-off type of valve, but there was no valve at the actual pump...the only thing that kept all the gas from flowing back into the underground tank was the pump rotors and the metering device.
It would eventually flow back, if left alone, but the gas in the hose was still there.
That's why you would hear the pump whine sometimes after it was activated...it was filling the hose beyond the pump rotor.
The owner knew I was doing it...he didn't care, as the metering device didn't register anything beyond itself to the handle valve unless the pump was actually running.
EPA and OSHA took care of that when the fuel crisis hit.
I remember the cute cashier. I asked her “Do you have 2 nipples for a dime?”
Thanks for that. Interesting. My dad told me about those valves when I was trying to drain the hose. He also told me that way back some pumps would already have several cents on it because of the gas left in the hose.
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