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bmiller

bmiller

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A guy in Australia mistook a rod holder for the gas tank inlet on his fishing g boat. Pumped 231 litres into the boat.
Pretty stupid, but not as stupid as all the people walking around in the product that was all over the asphalt.

Watch the video in the article.

ftw.usatoday.com

Angler mistakes rod holder for boat’s fuel tank; ‘expensive mistake’

Video footage shows where the angler mistakenly put the gas pump nozzle and how much the blunder cost the fisherman at the pump.
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Willin'

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Junior/Senior year of high school I pumped gas in a station near my home a couple nights a week. The station was on the main route from Philly to the Jersey shore and on Friday nights things got pretty busy.

It's about 9 PM one summer Friday night and a guy in a Corvette pulls up. It's got the big disk in the middle of the back deck, so I pop it open, stick the hose in and commence to clean the windshield while he uses the men's room.

A minute later I here him screaming behind me and running towards the car. Turns out he'd replaced the trunk deck with one from a different year and his fuel fill was just behind the driver's door under a flip up lid.

That was about 15 gallons into his trunk, all over a suitcase, a case of beer and a suit on hangers. He was not happy but had to admit I put the fuel in a fuel filler so bore no real grudge at my mistake. It was an unpleasant mess scooping/blotting all that gas out though, especially with all the other business coming in.

He even paid for the errant 15 gallons after I filled his actual fuel tank on the second try.
 
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Willin' said:
Junior/Senior year of high school I pumped gas in a station near my home a couple nights a week. The station was on the main route from Philly to the Jersey shore and on Friday nights things got pretty busy.

It's about 9 PM one summer Friday night and a guy in a Corvette pulls up. It's got the big disk in the middle of the back deck, so I pop it open, stick the hose in and commence to clean the windshield while he uses the men's room.

A minute later I here him screaming behind me and running towards the car. Turns out he'd replaced the trunk deck with one from a different year and his fuel fill was just behind the driver's door under a flip up lid.

That was about 15 gallons into his trunk, all over a suitcase, a case of beer and a suit on hangers. He was not happy but had to admit I put the fuel in a fuel filler so bore no real grudge at my mistake. It was an unpleasant mess scooping/blotting all that gas out though, especially with all the other business coming in.

He even paid for the errant 15 gallons after I filled his actual fuel tank on the second try.
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One of first things we did when gettng new planes for the club was put these stickers on the fuel filler. Part of the pre-flight is to drain some fuel and check the color. If it is not a light blue then someting is wrong.. One of our members was stuck in Sedona, AZ for a few more days while they drained the tanks and flushed the system. Turns out the tail number resembled a turbo prop that has also requested fuel and the FBO guy.. well lets just say wasn't paying attention.

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Grande Mastere Dreade

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Willin' said:
Junior/Senior year of high school I pumped gas in a station near my home a couple nights a week. The station was on the main route from Philly to the Jersey shore and on Friday nights things got pretty busy.

It's about 9 PM one summer Friday night and a guy in a Corvette pulls up. It's got the big disk in the middle of the back deck, so I pop it open, stick the hose in and commence to clean the windshield while he uses the men's room.

A minute later I here him screaming behind me and running towards the car. Turns out he'd replaced the trunk deck with one from a different year and his fuel fill was just behind the driver's door under a flip up lid.

That was about 15 gallons into his trunk, all over a suitcase, a case of beer and a suit on hangers. He was not happy but had to admit I put the fuel in a fuel filler so bore no real grudge at my mistake. It was an unpleasant mess scooping/blotting all that gas out though, especially with all the other business coming in.

He even paid for the errant 15 gallons after I filled his actual fuel tank on the second try.
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dumbass should have said something before leaving or like maybe open the fuel filler cap and point it out.... got what he deserved and should have paid for all the gas...
 
Mrleft8

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Heating oil guy poured 500 gallons of Home heating oil straight into my father's basement through the breather tube. He should have been a bit curious seeing as it was a 175 Gallon tank. In January. (New guy) The company paid to clean up the mess, and 3 days motel room for my father, but the house stank of diesel for months, and anything on the floor was pretty much ruined, and the basement floor weeped oil for years in the summer months. They really should have paid a lot more, but my father was early stage Alzheimers at that point, and these things just sort of..... Went away.
 
Grizz

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CBS Television in NYC relocated their back-up generator's diesel tank, and neglected to cap the old filler some years ago. They ended up with something like 30,000 gallons in the building basement. They had to close the building for a long time while they cleaned it up- a very expensive mistake.
 
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