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Baltimore gas station thefts net hundreds of gallons of fuel

The Baltimore Sun -- A theft this month of 311 gallons of gasoline from a station in Baltimore is one in a series of similar incidents, according to the station's owner, who says people have been disabling pumps and allowing friends and relatives to fill their tanks for free

Mehdi Rezakhan, who owns BP stations in Remington and East Baltimore, said each businesses has been hit once, and stations owned by friends have been taken several times, one for 1,800 gallons of gasoline.

On Saturday, city police could confirm only one theft at Rezakhan's BP station in Remington, which occurred either May 6 or May 7. Police reported no suspects and said they had no idea how the thieves stole such large amounts of gasoline.

But Rezakhan, 35, said he suspected someone with knowledge of pumps was using a hammer ...

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blk911
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WOW!!
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THIS IS INTERESTING. THIS GAS STORY HAS A SMELL TO IT.
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Wonder if the notices got out quick enough for all the station owners to be more aware? Does not appear to be
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crazy
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I think the owner is covering his own losses
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Amazing
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Thanks for keeping the prices up
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More thieves and we pay the price.
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yes I can believe it
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Thieves drive up the price for everyone else
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HELLO!! Video camera!!
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okay great!
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With prices where they are people will do desperate things.
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...between 4:30 p.m. May 6 and 10:30 a.m. March 7.... Better proof reading would have been useful.
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OK
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What happened to the security cameras?? Somebody knows something and are in cahoots with employees.
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Many stations dont even have lock on the underground tanks. Anybody could open then up, even little kids !
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Black market gas?
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cool but crazy
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Not good.
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Thou shalt not steal.
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As valuable as gas is you'd think there would have been other safety measures. Only a matter of time before someone gets caught on this one. Dump thing to be doing. The station owners don't usually make that much. If you want to be Robin Hood, rob it from one of the tanker trucks before it gets to the station.
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Thieves steal things. That's the way the world turns...
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thieves always find a way
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cOME ON. sOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHING.
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hope they get caught
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Good for that elderly man!
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not good
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NOT A BIG SHOCKER..TOUGH TIMES CREATE DESPERATE THIEVES!
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could be employees also
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it will keep going
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mmmmmmm
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this will keep rising
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...thugs & thieves will always use incredible brain power to steal.....
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I don't like it.
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Pay at pump only
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I guess anybody could do this if nobody's watching.
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As the economy get worse the thefts will find new ways to steal!
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Thieves hurt paying consumers.
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well not good gas station attendants!
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We need to return to the days of public discipline.
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Station owners need to find a way to measure tanks from inside the store!
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Catch them. cut their fingers off
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interesting...
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Where there is a will, there is a way!
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Hey I don't condone crime but this is the nobama administrations doing making the economy tank even worse than the bush administration.
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Wow
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What scumbags
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interesting, I hope the owner gets this figured out
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interesting that this can be done without people seeing it
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