Gentleman tries to smoke and steal gas at the same time — it didn't end well

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Gentleman tries to smoke and steal gas at the same time — it didn't end well | Boing Boing

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[Brainspore]

[gracchus]

Sounds like an upstanding gentleman with 30 years of good life decisions behind him.

[babVU98i]

Came here for the Zoolander reference.
Was not disappointed.

[Steve_L]

The car was on fire, and it was his fault!

[hecep]

What became of his partner in crime is yet to be determined.

[west]

[Alvin_Goodman]

Doesn’t always work out like it did for Jay Leno. One lucky SOB there.

[cannibalpeas]

@Alvin_Goodman

One lucky SOB there.

He’s certainly pressing that luck:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/entertainment/jay-leno-motorcycle-accident/index.html

[Mercenary_Garage]

I recall a moment of terror from the late '80s as I realised the young gentleman filling the petrol tank of the motorcycle I was astride, was smoking a cigarette.

Nothing adverse happened but even now, some 30 odd years later I’m shaking my head in disbelief.

[OhHai]

I saw one of Jay Leno’s houses on Antiques Roadshow. He shouldn’t be stealing people’s gasoline at all, let alone smoking while doing it!

In all seriousness I wish him a speedy recovery from his recent accident.

[da_Bird]

trailer park boys stealing gas

[phiis161803]

From the article, the suspect in an admittedly poor screen grab, looks remarkably like Beavis.

[fuzzyfungus]

I can only imagine that the overlap between gas-siphoners and IEC 60079-wonks is pretty small; though if it exists it’s safer than the non-overlap gas-siphoners and has access to cheaper gas than the non-overlap IEC 60079-wonks, so there is that.