Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/19/thief-caught-sucking-used-burg.html
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And yet Dick Cheney walks free for essentially the same crime (well, heavily armed robbery in his case…)
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Grease theft might not seem like the worst kind of crime but it certainly is a slippery slope.
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Doesn’t the restaurant have to normally pay to dispose of old grease?
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No, someone pays them to take it off their hands and do the same thing this guy is doing.
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Life imitates art.
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And really, who among us can say that she has not, at one time or another, enjoyed sucking used Burger King grease out through a hose for illicit purposes?
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Eh… that kind of crime is kid stuff.
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My first thought was: 25 cents a gallon? That’s not very much money for a crime that requires so much work and equipment. How is anyone doing this? Then the word “boss” came up, and it made sense - it’s all about exploited workers. Someone is making good money off of this crime - just not the guys who are actually getting arrested for it.
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Used to. It has value now thanks to biodiesel, which at it’s simplest is just filtered cooking oil.
Theft is really common too. The collection barrels are typically fitted with a locking lid and bolted or chained down.
You can still get a hose in there usually so it’s not uncommon to find someone sticking a syphon into your grease tank.
Oddly enough it’s the same somebody who you used to pay to take it. It’s just one day your waste company started sending checks instead of bills.
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We can obsess about the legalities and the social critique this implies, but at the end of the day, ew ew ewww.
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Nitpick here (I own a diesel and have read a bit on this).
Filtered cooking oil is different from biodiesel. Diesel engines will burn a wide variety of stuff! Cooking oil requires a converter for some reason (and typically a separate tank), biodiesel you put straight in your gas tank. Functionally biodiesel is the same as normal diesel.
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Cooking oil is a bit too heavy to be used in Diesel engines that are designed for standard Diesel. It wouldn’t flow well through the system and would tend to clog injectors and pumps at low temperatures. The process of making bio-diesel splits up the fat molecules into shorter chains that resemble oil-based Diesel fuel more closely.
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I see what you did there!
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The article mentions $300 a night, $6k a month isn’t bad!
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Back in the 90s when I worked in fast food the manager had to lock the grease bin because people kept stealing the grease. And then he made it a royal pain in the ass when it was my job to empty the fryers because he was so paranoid about his precious used oil.
People have apparently been dumping used oil in their trucks for a long time.
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Strange the article didn’t investigate who this boss is?
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Stop! You’re makin’ me hungry!
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This right here is the kind of eco-crime future that the liberals want us to have.
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