As gas prices soar, thieves grow more brazen

Bobby Lee Julien, who’s driven a fuel tanker for 27 years, was near the end of his route. It was 3 a.m. when he pulled up at a stop sign off State Highway 225 in Houston.

It took only a few seconds for the masked man to rip open the passenger door, jump in and point a gun at Julien, 52.

“I begged him not to shoot me,” Julien said. “I feared for my life. The whole time he had a gun pointed at me.”

With siphons, pumps, saws — and sometimes lethal weapons — gasoline thieves are on the hunt.
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Better make sure they can't steal the gas out of your car at night. We'll see a lot of that.

back during the FECK OPUC era

during WW2.

(the year I got my driver's license) there was plenty of gas thieving going on here

I do not re-call if we had those before.

You'd be safer hauling gas in this:



The vision dims and all that remains are memories. They take me back - back to the place where the black pump sucked guzzolene from the earth. And I remember the terrible battle we fought - the day we left that place forever. But, most of all, I remember the courage of a stranger, a road warrior called Max.
To understand who he was, you must go back to the last days of the old world, when, for reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior nations went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all.
For without fuel they were nothing. They had built a house of straw. People stopped in the streets and listened: for the first time they heard the sound of silence. Their world crumbled.
And only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. At last, the vermin had inherited the earth. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and crushed.
Men like the Warrior Max, who in the roar of an engine, lost everything and became a shell of a man. A burnt out, desolate man, a dead man, running from the demons of his past. A man who wandered far away. And it was out here in this blighted place that he learned to live again.