A Sigh of the Times!!

[Grumpy]

Yesterday when I fishing at Rough River I saw a small boat, with a 10 horse motor, pulled up on the shore. There were several things in the boat (PFDs, rods/reels/tackle box, etc) but the interesting thing was that THERE WASN'T ANY GAS TANK!! Whether the owner took it out for safe-keeping or someone stole it--IT STILL A GOOD INDICATOR OF WHAT IS VALUABLE THESE DAYS.

Grumpy

PS, The title was supposed to have been A SIGN but I guess SIGH is still appropriate (couldn't edit it).

[Cobra190]

Exactly Right. We keep several thousand dollars worth of equipment stored on our backlot at work. Never anyhting damaged but now have to bring all gas cans inside so that the only thing missing is the gas out of the equipment itself. Gonna have to put cameras up.

[steve604]

A friend of mine solved his gas stealing problem. He kept getting his gas stolen, so he put two pounds of sugar in five gallons of gas in a nice red gas can. Two days later it was gone. Shortly after that his brother was complaining about having to get up at midnight to drag his sons hot rod mustang home. The son said that it just quit, but the brother said he must have done something really bad because the motor was locked up. It cost him a bundle to get it rebuilt, and if the mechanic hadn't told him it was sugar in the tank he would have got it again as soon as he started the new motor. Oh well, you can always count on family.

Steve

[MsgMills]

Wonder if the gas tank has sugar in it.......Might have caught the person who took the red gas can with the sugar in it for sure.......

[stoner]

Exactly Right. We keep several thousand dollars worth of equipment stored on our backlot at work. Never anyhting damaged but now have to bring all gas cans inside so that the only thing missing is the gas out of the equipment itself. Gonna have to put cameras up.

Fill a couple with water and see if they come back!!
Stoner

[biggw]

Fill a couple with water and see if they come back!!
Stoner

UM now i know were i got that water in my gas-lol

[Brutus]

An old man I used to work with from Winchester said he was in charge of the diesel and gas tanks when they built I-64. He said that for several nights straight, gasoline was stolen. Then he pulled a switch on them and put the gas in the diesel tanks and diesel in the gas tanks. Next mornin he noticed several cars broke down on the roadside.
I'd love to have seen the thieve's faces that night.

Brutus

[BigPoppy]

just a few weeks ago on Barren while camping at the spill way they emptyed both tanks on my pontoon boat during a storm I hope the rain water fouled out the carburetor if the oil did not get them, if it was for their car since mine was the only boat on the campground. LOL you never no man, I have given folks on the lake gas and oil both to get back to the dock with, when we volunteered at the campground at Beavercreek folks just do not realize how much a pontoon will drink from the state park to there seemed like at least once a week we would get a call to rescue someone on our end of the lake. sometimes the folks would pay us for the fuel, sometimes they promised to bring it back by when they got to shore, about half the time we never saw them again. so about mid way through summer we developed a new program we simply pulled them to our ramp and a ranger would take them to a gas station we would loan them 2 tanks one with 6 and one with 2 gallon capacity the six was for theirs the two was for ours we thought it was a fair trade most of the time and if the folks looked like they really could not afford to buy extra we would let them slide but we kept a note book with boat NO# and when it happened we would check the log and there were only one free ride to a customer. but with fuel as high as it is now I could not do it again. Well I don't know if it going to be a democrat or a republican but somebody has got to get some butt kicking mojo going soon and get us back on track folks we got the technology we have the resources we just need to make the corporations let go of the strangle hold they have on our government and our society way back in 1979 I was driving a ford taurus built in germany a long time before they ever were here, it had a single barrel carb 4 cylinders and a four speed manual transmission, gas over there was costing as much back then as it is here now, the Germans would not play the games we do so ford made the car get 40 mpg average and at least 30 in town now it was not a monster on tourqe but it was quick and would run 80 all day long and still get 38 mpg. Germany's infra structure is well developed and there are buses and commuter trains every where, and if it was only a mile or so to where they worked they kept bikes locked up at the train station in town. So the Automobile companies have to provide the people with a good reliable inexpensive to operate car. We could have the same here if we pushed it. The four stroke boat motors have been a great leap forward for us, wouldn't it be cool if the fisherman could lead the way and get the rest of the consumers thinking the same way. do it our way or we will find some one else who will!