Blotter: Man uses device to steal gas
Blotter: Man uses device to steal gas
10:30 PM CST on Friday, February 12, 2010
A man apparently figured out how to defeat a gasoline pump system and get away with free fuel over the past few weeks, according to a Denton police report.
The manager of a convenience store in the 3100 block of West University Drive said employees have seen a man getting gas from the same pump four times recently. He did not come inside to pay for the gas, and the computer inside showed an error message.
The manager placed an “out of order” sign on that pump.
He saw the man again Thursday afternoon, getting gas from the pump with the “out of order” sign. He went outside and confronted the man, asking why he was using that pump.
The man climbed back inside his car and drove away.
The manager said another customer showed him how the man had defeated the system with a portable keypad. The numbers he put on the pad allowed him to pump without reflecting the amount of gasoline inside the store.
An investigation is continuing.
Other reports
1100 block of Avenue C — Police received a call from a store Thursday that a couple was fighting inside the business and had moved to the parking lot, where he was beating her car with a shopping cart.
Officers found the pair still in the lot. She said he followed her to the store and attacked her inside, pulling her to the floor and slapping her. Then he attacked her car, she said, and broke both windshields with the cart.
The man said he was angry because he had just learned she had given him a sexually transmitted disease.
