That article was a gas!

The extents people go these days.... Couldn't he just hold up the place wearing a thong on his head like everybody else?

FTFA...""Someone saw a person on the roof of the gas station about 9:30 p.m. Monday and called Tinley Park police.""



who are these farking narc do-gooders that think they have to call the police anytime they see something unusual!?!?
mind yer own beeswax next time....idjits!!

Man I hate thieves. Just slightly less than my hatred of vandals.

Reynolds Wrap? No where in the article does it mention the brand of foil. Your headline is very misleading, Subby

Stealing is fun!

Tinfoil is the tinfoil theives use to keep credit cards out of their network.

desperate times, desperate measures and all that...

SushiJoe: rats, foiled again!

correction: rats, curses, foiled again!

It's such a pain when cell phone vigilantes call the cops every time someone is doing maintenance, on a roof, at night, with a ski mask on,, and un-rolling a large wad of tin foil.

I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you medling kids

Trivia Jockey: T-Luv: Reynolds Wrap? No where in the article does it mention the brand of foil. Your headline is very misleading, Subby


You must be loads of fun at parties.

Take it easy, Trivia. T-Luv brings up a good point. The article doesn't say ANYTHING about the brand. Maybe subby works for Reynolds. Should this be considered a Sponsored Link?

I DEMAND FULL DISCLOSURE , SUBBY!

/seriously, did the headline really throw you off that much T-Luv or was that sarcasm?

Trivia Jockey: T-Luv: Reynolds Wrap? No where in the article does it mention the brand of foil. Your headline is very misleading, Subby


You must be loads of fun at parties.

Yeah, I pretty much go around correcting people's slightest errors. Everyone enjoys it when they are corrected.

/I was giving subby a hard time. If they would have called it foil instead of reynolds wrap and then used the pun "foiled again" at the end, it wouldn't have been as funny. I was just playing devil's advocate.

TheWizard: Man I hate thieves. Just slightly less than my hatred of vandals.

You know who else didn't like vandals?

The Romans...

I remember having to do this when the network was down, but I always had to call the charge in first to get authorization.

Why didn't he just de-peak the dish?

An inch may have threw it off and left little evidence...

How is this easier than swapping plates??

Trivia Jockey: Observatory: FTFA...""Someone saw a person on the roof of the gas station about 9:30 p.m. Monday and called Tinley Park police.""


I assume he waited until the police weren't petroling the area.


ouch!

/+1

Trivia Jockey: I have to give this thief some credit.

Because the gas station wouldn't?

crho85: SushiJoe: rats, foiled again!

correction: rats, curses, foiled again!

Came here to say this

UHC2005: TheWizard: Man I hate thieves. Just slightly less than my hatred of vandals.

You know who else didn't like vandals?

The Romans...

What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?

/Now, write it out a hundred times.

Is it really that "clever" of an idea if he didn't succeed? Sounds like maybe he didn't think his plunning can through.

Trivia Jockey: T-Luv: /I was giving subby a hard time. If they would have called it foil instead of reynolds wrap and then used the pun "foiled again" at the end, it wouldn't have been as funny. I was just playing devil's advocate.

I only assume it was because this wouldn't have read as well:

Would-be thief comes up with clever way to steal gasoline by wrapping credit card transmitter in tin foil, but his plan was foiled

Only the thief knew which brand was used. Right, Subby?

Although I now live in Phoenix, I grew up down the street from this station. The locals all knew that if you smoked the midnight clerk up, he'd let you take whatever you could carry in two hands - EXCEPT cigarettes! Of course that was pre-video and in teh "old fashioned" credit card days.

/Victor J. Andrew High School football rules! GO T-Bolts
//VJ Andrew founded Andrew Corp - the company with the white "satellite" dishes with the red "thunderbolt"
/// YES, that was our team mascot

<announcer voice>

In a national survey 9 out of 10 would be gasoline thieves perfer Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil to the leading national brand!

</announcer voice>

bakerlaw67 how long have you been out of Andrew? They altered the mascot to the Tasmanian devil with a thunderbolt on the back of it when I was there in (93-97).

Trivia Jockey: akanaka: Only the thief knew which brand was used. Right, Subby?


Ohhh, not a bad theory. The thief didn't use the "dumbass" tag, now did he?

Bah...I suspect subby is an ex-Chewlies gum salesman.

Maybe he was tired of wearing the tinfoil hat and decided to cut the signal off at the source instead.

It's amazing the lengths that thieves are now going to in order to steal gasoline. Cars with gas tanks that don't lock are an especially vulnerable target, but even owners of the cars with locking gas tanks are waking up to find a hole has been drilled in their car and the gas siphoned out. I mean, crimony.



If not for people, I'd respect the hell out of humanity.

akanaka: Trivia Jockey: T-Luv: /I was giving subby a hard time. If they would have called it foil instead of reynolds wrap and then used the pun "foiled again" at the end, it wouldn't have been as funny. I was just playing devil's advocate.

I only assume it was because this wouldn't have read as well:

Would-be thief comes up with clever way to steal gasoline by wrapping credit card transmitter in tin foil, but his plan was foiled

Only the thief knew which brand was used. Right, Subby?

I'm sure Jesus would know also. And possibly Santa Claus

FTFA's headline: Rooftop gas theft scheme foiled
SUBURBS | Tried to block credit card satellite transmitter

DID block credit card satellite!

Why is it always blamed on theives? How about protesters for a change?