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As usual all the weird people come out of my home state...today a Florida man was arrested about 5 blocks from my office for attempting to steal gas from a Hess station using an 800 gallon gas tank in the back of his truck.

Here's a quote from the Orlando Sentinel:

Deputies were called out to the Hess gas station at 2902 W. Sand Lake Road around 9:40 a.m. and found a man pumping fuel into a 800 gallon tank that was in the back of a covered pick up truck, according to spokesman Jim Solomons.

The gas was being pumped out of the underground fuel tank.

A deputy had to deploy a Taser to get the suspect to comply with orders, Solomons said.

Not a bad setup as you can see in the photo to the left but my feeling is that paying almost $4 in gas even in an 800 gallon tank will be much preferred to the fines and years of jail time ahead. Eh, but no one listens to my grand advice.

My next bit of grand advice? What was the cop thinking using a taser next to 800 gallons of gas and an exposed underground fuel storage container? I don't even like having my car on or talking on my cell while filling up my tank much less firing 50,000 volts in the general area.

Here's a link to the Orlando Sentinel write up.