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That's what I used to do.. and some have drain plugs..

Hey Jimmy, how are you doing? Long time no see..

Hook up a sparker, like on the gas grill to the car battery.  It can spark all night.

If they do puncture the gas tank just hope it explodes far enough away from the house.

I've booby trapped the thing.....

Found an easier way than doing anything that would cause an explosion

I just poured sugar in my gas tank !   That'll teach em !

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What if a person were to sprinkle cayenne pepper on their gas cap. When you open it yourself use a paper towel.

I can garauntee that a person who siphons gas will not know about the cayenne pepper until they've rubbed it on their face. It always manages to get into eyes too especially on hot summer nights.

Of course, this wouldn't work if they puncture the tank itself. You can smear 90 weight gear oil on that.

Boobytrapping to intentionally cause injury as we know, is illegal. Let the bastard try to take you to court. The media will live that one.

You might be able to catch him/her too when you hear someone scream in agony late at night.

If ya' wanna get really mean you can use powdered habanero pepper. It just takes a lot more time to find it in a store.

Incidently,  our complex had to install newer directional flood lights because this theft as of late has been a real problem.  Not just gasoline, but they actually have been breaking and entering automobiles as well..  EVEN in a gated complex.. People walk in from side woods by foot..

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I lived in a gated complex once. While there, a driver was delivering pizza to us and left the car running. Another resident just walked up and drove off in delivery person's car. Background checks are not always that thorough. Gates do help cut down on theft but it requires a more vigilant staff in the office.

True Chuck.   I can't imagine wanting the vehicle of 90% of the pizza delivery folks around here however.  It's amazing they don't end up walking home from their deliveries.  These aren't cars I could imagine anyone living in a gated complex wanting (at least around here).  Hmm.  While there are percentages of section 8 homes in many complexes, I still can't imagine that..

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I have some unemployed relatives that are attack dogs.  :O

Wrong, those inside gas door release thingys don't stop nuthin....Thief can still pop the door open with a small screw driver, then your door latch is busted and your gas gone....Some thieves scratch/dent the vehicle when they discover a locking gas cap...Hey, you owe them, right?

Learn to set/conceal bear traps, then don't brag about it to anyone...just watch for limping punks afterwards. Also hang treble fish hooks from thin fishing line about shoulder high in edge of woods.....

You are so right. I had one of those in my old car. It broke so I would grab a credit card and just pop it open with that.

The price of gas just went down a few cents here. wierd

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Yep,  I never thought of that.  Some around here do differentiate, you see to them there's a difference between siphoning gas without doing structural damage to the vehicle, and prying something scratching the car.  If you are neat, to them, it's apparently legit bartering. They do the labor, you supply them with Gas.  I guess in their crooked head, it's only larceny if you leave marks, or break and enter.  I have the car parked at this nice angle where the floodlighting bounces off the car finish right where the gas cover is.  

(Lets see if they are smart enough to figure out that wearing sunglasses will conceal them.)

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I don't envy you city dwellers...been there, done that.

Steven, you are getting older...You really should consider becoming a 'snowbird' and flying south....Lot's of lake front lots still avail round here..A nice little house on stilts up next to the water....tall cypress trees and knees full of fat bass....shell path-like road leading in....Dead end with you at the end of it....A dead end road that leads to endless peace and beauty....Lots of porch time, fishing time, really good friends time....No midnight gunshots cept for the infrequent coon hunters, no morning surprizes except maybe a woodpecker on a hollow tree, no echos of sirens....no close neighbors....No one telling you what to do...Only 20 miles to Walmart, and you can raise your own fish bait in your living room if you wanted to and no one would care...You can step out on the porch and pee or shoot your gun and no one would care....If someone sneaks round your place at night and you shoot or pee on them, no one would care...except him.....A quiet so loud you think it's screaming at first....Takes a few months for your ears to stop ringing once you get somewhere this quiet, then you start to hear the inside you....and make friends with him....and then that dead end road seems so endless and wide it starts to blend in with the landscape where you can sit quietly in isolation yet feel like you are finally in touch with the whole world....But protected from it.

Oh, I saw tonight where reg unleaded was 2.82/gal.

$3.12 a gallon here - I just filled up

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Yeah, but do you live on a dead end road?

Where Keith is "Dead end road" means over 1/2 tank of gas just to get to the mailboxes at the end of the driveway .   Since the closest gas station is over a tank of gas from Keith's home,  he has to mail order the gas

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Keith, it sounds nice but I like the cooler temps all year.  I wouldn't be able to handle the H&H you folks get down there.  I figured like my parents, as I got older, I'd want warmer temps, but if anything things are looking the opposite at this point. I really don't like anything over 60 and dry.  Not really what I like,  physically it feels like what I need, I can't explain it.  Might have some Eskimo in me.  Might be the Lithuanian grandparents,  I just don't know.   I feel comfortable in cool temps, over 60 I start growling and hissing.. Chewing on the furniture legs, ripping the upholstry, not a pretty scene.

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Okay, who resurrected the gas cap thread? I want names and numbers...

Regular unleaded is abit higher up here than where you two are,  Keith & Bab's,  by about a nickel.  I suppose prices will come down (I hope)

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Nope, this time next year it will be 5 bucks/gal....so at 40 gals my diesel dually will cost 200 bucks to fill up...I go over a month tween fillups, so less than 200/month ain't all that bad....my electric bill runs 285-300 year round.(I like the house icey), so fuel cost less per month than electricity....I can live with that.

My wife borrowed my white silverado last month and filled it up...it's still over 3/4...I call it my reserve and let it sit till time to cut grass.

Hey remember the other day when I told you I had just filled both tanks on the dually?....I'm at 1/2 on the first tank today.....I'm happy.