What will they think of next? Surging gas prices caught the unwanted attention of some crafty thieves who used a bread truck as a cover-up to steal thousands of dollars’ worth of gasoline from an underground tank in California.
Surveillance footage shows the two men rolling up to the pump with their delivery truck, supposedly to fill it up with gas. Which they did, but not in the way the gas station owner would have liked.
As you can see from the video, while one man was pretending to put gas in the truck, the other man sneakily lifts the lid off an underground tank. They then used their own pump to fill up the customized truck, which was equipped with a 1,000-gallon gas tank! Their downfall, of course, was that they got too greedy…
The owner of the gas station, Darshan Mundy, told CBS News that his Valero shop had been hit six times in the past month alone by the same suspects, costing him $8,000.
“It is tough. This is another big loss,” said Mundy “Then we started watching what was happening.” A gas station employee eventually caught on to the trick and called police that apprehended one of the thieves, 27-year-old Tyler Bird, while the other man managed to flee on foot and is being sought by authorities.
“This is the first time in my 20 year career that I’ve seen something like this,” Lt. Paul Doroshov told Today’s THV News, adding that police were very concerned about public safety.
“You’re talking about a lot of vapor a lot of flammable fluids and the people doing it are not exactly your gas truck operators that are well trained,” said Doroshov.
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