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To: bill1952
Did he have a fuel tanker? How else could you steal 10000 gallons?

Saw this on last night's news. He had a large closed trailer with a BIG tank in it and a hole in the floor. He had an electric pump driven by marine batteries.

He'd pull into a station and park the trailer over the fill pipe for the tanks and start pumping.

The story said they have store surveillance video of him chatting with a state trooper while he was pumping the fuel from the tank

32 posted on 10/18/2007 1:02:13 PM PDT by Vermonter
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To: Vermonter

He must have had a kick ass pump.

Think about the lift, head pressure, and rate of flow that you would want to transfer any large amount of fuel out from an underground tank.

My first thought was that he had a fuel tanker truck that he would drive up with when the station closed and pretend to pump fuel in.

Thanks for the heads up.


37 posted on 10/18/2007 1:10:53 PM PDT by bill1952 (The 10 most important words for change: "If it is to be, it is up to me")
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