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Several unmanned Swedish petrol stations opened the floodgates for vehicle owners to tank up totally free of charge over the weekend.

It now appears that the free flow was an organized fraud attack on unmanned petrol stations in Skåne county, southern Sweden.

Vehicle owners couldn’t believe their luck when a number of unmanned gas stations in the south of Sweden appeared to be giving away free petrol on Saturday afternoon. Cars lined up around the block to make use of the free petrol.

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The one that got away isn’t a fish at the Lone Pine Inn on Madison Lake near Mankato. It’s a gasoline thief.

Angler Curt Schueneman says the fuel from his boat and others has been stolen twice this summer, most recently on Sunday night.

He suspects the thieves, or thief, is coming in from the lake late at night and siphoning gas to use in their own boat.

He thinks that because if the thieves drove up the gravel road to the lodge, someone would hear them. And since boat fuel is a mixture of gasoline and oil, it can’t be used in cars and trucks.

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Another farm was targeted for diesel fuel with someone stealing 2,000 gallons, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

A farm in the 7400 block of Sawgrass Road in Parrish had diesel taken between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 6:30 a.m. Thursday, authorities believe.

The thieves cut the padlock off the gate to get into the property. The fuel is valued at about $8,000.
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Police are investigating a whopper of a fuel theft from a service station in Burbank.

Police on Monday said the service station’s owner reported 4,000 gallons of diesel disappeared sometime before 5 a.m. on Friday.

Burbank police Detective Sam Anderson says when the gas station opened at that time, workers found the underground diesel tanks had been drained.
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A man took petrol several times from the same Tauranga service station without paying before he was finally caught, a judge was told today.

Ford Wayne Tawhara, 24, unemployed, admitted five charges of theft when he appeared before Judge Thomas Ingram in Tauranga District Court.

He also pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.

Sergeant Sean Brennan said Tawhara helped himself to petrol costing various sums between $5.75 and $104.81 from a Fifteenth Avenue service station on March 23 and 26 and on April 18 and 22.
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Most would agree that the current petrol price is a bit of a rip-off — now some motorists are repaying the favour by stealing fuel.

A KwaZulu-Natal pump attendant was injured when a motorist ran over him while speeding away from an Empangeni petrol station without paying on Tuesday evening.

Peter Morgan, the chief executive of the Fuel Retailers’ Association, said the incident was not isolated.

“There have been about 10 similar incidents over the past month,” he said.

“Every motorist is feeling the same pain. It is not isolated to one province. As soon as fuel prices increase, motorists fill up and speed off.
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