Florida is full of idiots

-Ric Romero

Meh, this is not special. I replaced the fuel in the tanks with water in 2004 when I worked for Volvo Rentals.

Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

On Thursday night, police suspect the same thief returned and siphoned out the water, worth about $50, probably thinking it was gasoline.

Two hundred gallons of water stored in a tank also used to store gasoline was worth $50?

Daddakamabb: Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

badly

Once the new environmentally-friendly cars arrive, this kind of problem will be solved.


Yes. It will.

Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

When I got busted I just showed my ID card to the border guard.
Pffft. It was a fake. Said I was "Captain Jean Luke Picard"
They didn't speak english anyway.

The world is full of stupid people.

/got pesos

Wait a minute. I got a suspicion...

What's the matter?

Just what I thought: water. They did it again.

/Obscure?

Joker you diabolical...: Once the new environmentally-friendly cars arrive, this kind of problem will be solved.


Yes. It will.

Tomorrow's headline:
"That boom you just heard? Two thieves in Florida tried to steal 250 gallons of hydrogen"

This story would have been Farkworthy only if the theif had called 9-1-1 ten minutes later to report his gas guzzler was stalled out at the side of the highway.

Barakku: Joker you diabolical...: Once the new environmentally-friendly cars arrive, this kind of problem will be solved.


Yes. It will.

Tomorrow's headline:
"That boom you just heard? Two thieves in Florida tried to steal 250 gallons of hydrogen"

It wouldn't be written so well. Also, realistically, the cars of tomorrow run on good will.

Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

Assuming the engine isn't running when the tank is filled, it will start up just fine, and drive for a few meters, cough and stop.

Unless you put some very good mechanics on it quickly, by tomorrow your engine will be a boat anchor.

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Terrified Asexual Forcemeat 2008-10-12 12:26:19 AM
On Thursday night, police suspect the same thief returned and siphoned out the water, worth about $50, probably thinking it was gasoline.

Two hundred gallons of water stored in a tank also used to store gasoline was worth $50?
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Usually water stores sell it at 25 cents a gallon. That's probably how they got their figure.

What kind of water is worth $0.25 a gallon? Distilled? De-ionized?

I probably would've used piss. Piss is cheaper than water.

studebaker hoch: What kind of water is worth $0.25 a gallon? Distilled? De-ionized?

In this case, detached

studebaker hoch
What kind of water is worth $0.25 a gallon? Distilled? De-ionized?

Water with a little bit of gas mixed up in it!!!!

Maddogjew: trouzourt: nd

Meh, another 2008 account? Ignored, like everyone else I catch that registered in 2008.

Phew!

Srep on it.

A friend of mine was getting very bad gas mileage from his old truck, since it had over 100k miles on it he thought it was probably dying so he traded it in on a new diesel truck, two days after he gets it he comes outside to go to work and sees his neighbours car sitting a block down the road blowing blue smoke and shaking like it was about to blow up, the neighbour has the car towed in to the shop where he discovers that the tank was full of diesel, turns out his neighbours son was sneaking out at night, driving all over the place then siphoning gas from cars in the neighbourhood to cover up the fuel use. The kid learned the hard way that all go juice is not created equal.

My grandpa, a farmer from Medicine Hat, Alberta, deals with gas thefts every once in a while. Unfortunately for the thieves, he was a chemist prior to his farming days. He spikes the gas line with a little something (not sugar or bleach, I know that much) after any consecutive robberies, then notifies the local mechanics to be on the look-out.

I can't smell much, but I can smell the difference between gas and water.

water tastes slightly better than gas.

vaconex: Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

When I got busted I just showed my ID card to the border guard.
Pffft. It was a fake. Said I was "Captain Jean Luke Picard"
They didn't speak english anyway.

The world is full of stupid people.

/got pesos

Not trying to be a dick or anything but how the hell is that even farking relevent to a car being full of water?

Daddakamabb: vaconex: Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

When I got busted I just showed my ID card to the border guard.
Pffft. It was a fake. Said I was "Captain Jean Luke Picard"
They didn't speak english anyway.

The world is full of stupid people.

/got pesos

Not trying to be a dick or anything but how the hell is that even farking relevent to a car being full of water?

In the song it's sugar in the tank of the sheriff's car, not water. Close enough.

Daddakamabb: vaconex: Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

When I got busted I just showed my ID card to the border guard.
Pffft. It was a fake. Said I was "Captain Jean Luke Picard"
They didn't speak english anyway.

The world is full of stupid people.

/got pesos

Not trying to be a dick or anything but how the hell is that even farking relevent to a car being full of water?

It would make more sense if you were munching some of the shrooms he brought back from that border run, trust me...

I can't wait until the thieves sue the owners of the garden after they get injured from their crimes. I love how silly our laws work.

This isn't a new idea. During the last fuel crises, several farmers that I did summer work for modified their tanks to dispense water. There was a five gallon jug of water (with about 12 ounces of gasoline mixed in) sitting behind the tank. If you didn't know about the second set of valves, you got five gallons of water that smelled like gasoline.

/There was one farmer that had a brand new truck sitting on his property for a couple of months. As I understand it, he talked to the kids dad and they decided that the kid needed to learn a lesson.

Link (new window)
here is something thats making me laugh ..

//not a rick roll..
//total threadjack though

studebaker hoch: What kind of water is worth $0.25 a gallon? Distilled? De-ionized?

The water equaling 50 bucks is done by the same value that police use to value illegal drugs.

He should have replaced it with battery acid... see how far they get before they have to replace their engine...

Or vinegar.

Or just grab every clear liquid from the garage and pour it in and then fill 10 gal of water/insert caustic clear fluid here.

50 gallons of bong propellant?

That's a paddlin.

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Terrified Asexual Forcemeat 2008-10-12 12:26:19 AM
On Thursday night, police suspect the same thief returned and siphoned out the water, worth about $50, probably thinking it was gasoline.

Two hundred gallons of water stored in a tank also used to store gasoline was worth $50?
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Usually water stores sell it at 25 cents a gallon. That's probably how they got their figure.

Being cops, they then multiplied by $1.5 million and came up with the street value.

+1 to subby for the obscure Tasters Choice coffee commercial reference from billions of years ago..

Pinky Floyd: +1 to subby for the obscure Tasters Choice coffee commercial reference from billions of years ago..

nothing is obscure on fark

Bucky Katt: Pinky Floyd: +1 to subby for the obscure Tasters Choice coffee commercial reference from billions of years ago..

nothing is obscure on fark



Nothing.

That stuff is dangerous - hydrogen dioxide can kill you!

Ban hydrogen dioxide! (new window)

aww.. a meter doesn't cost 600 bucks.. iwant to just give the thief a hug.. nice try dude...

Pinky Floyd: +1 to subby for the obscure Tasters ChoiceFolger's Crystals coffee commercial reference from billions of years ago..

/at least, that's how I remember it
//get offa mah lawn

DeRosso: That stuff is dangerous - hydrogen dioxide can kill you!

Ban hydrogen dioxide! (new window)

I've never really understood that joke, mostly because hydrogen dioxide would be HO2, while H2O would be dihydrogen monoxide.
Those jokers should try and check their chemistry, however I still like the whole fear-mongering thing. "ONOES, it's some evohl chemical that will kill our kids, drive our cars and steal all our left shoes! DO SOMETHING!!!"

/and yadda yadda

Joker you diabolical...: Barakku: Joker you diabolical...: Once the new environmentally-friendly cars arrive, this kind of problem will be solved.


Yes. It will.

Tomorrow's headline:
"That boom you just heard? Two thieves in Florida tried to steal 250 gallons of hydrogen"

It wouldn't be written so well. Also, realistically, the cars of tomorrow run on good will.

Will we be invading other countries to steal their good will?

Hack Patooey: studebaker hoch: What kind of water is worth $0.25 a gallon? Distilled? De-ionized?

In this case, detached

I think the correct term is denatured.

/ but I am sure the owner of the tank was delighted.

ZurkisPhreek 2008-10-12 06:56:10 AM
DeRosso: That stuff is dangerous - hydrogen dioxide can kill you!

Ban hydrogen dioxide! (new window)

I've never really understood that joke, mostly because hydrogen dioxide would be HO2

To be fair, hydrogen dioxide (hydroperoxide radical?) definitely could kill you.

/Also called hydrogen peroxide
//Rocket fuel!

Daddakamabb: Nice so... how exactly does a car react when it's full of water?

If it's anything like my wife, ankles swell up, lies on the couch and biatches and moans while watching Dr. Phil. I usually go to the pub.

/I thought you said retaining

Dihydrogen monoxide is the joke, folks. not hydrogen dioxide..

Terrified Asexual Forcemeat: On Thursday night, police suspect the same thief returned and siphoned out the water, worth about $50, probably thinking it was gasoline.

Two hundred gallons of water stored in a tank also used to store gasoline was worth $50?

yeah all of a sudden $1 for a bottle of water seems a bit overpriced huh?

Maddogjew: trouzourt: nd

Meh, another 2008 account? Ignored, like everyone else I catch that registered in 2008.

/Have over 300 on the list so far
/your biatch is so gonna lose you POS, I spit on their political graves.


So, I'm curious...is it only pseudopolitical extremist trolls registered in 2008 that you ignore, or any account whatsoever less than a year old? For example, my current account is registered in 2008, but only because I forgot my old password after leaving Fark for nearly two years and I had changed email addresses during that time. I'm a centrist more or less, and I tend to avoid the political discussions entirely because they give me headaches.

So do I qualify for your personal banination? Inquiring minds want to know!

/threadjack over, please continue

G3 Power: So do I qualify for your personal banination? Inquiring minds want to know!

No. It is only extremist political trolls that I ban.

If he had done that in California, he'd leave us all jealous, what with the water shortage issue.