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Title: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Tre on December 08, 2007, 01:40:07 PM

Store Mistakenly Sells 33-Cent Gasoline

AP
Posted: 2007-12-08 11:43:51

MINOCQUA, Wis. (Dec. 7) - Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon.

An employee closing Trig's Minocqua Shell for the night mistakenly entered the price of a gallon of gasoline as 32.9 cents instead of $3.299 on Monday night.

He left about 10 p.m., but drivers could still use their credit cards to buy gas.

Word of the bargain spread fast in the rural northern Wisconsin community, with 42 people buying 586 gallons of gas in an hour and 45 minutes. One person had pumped 27 gallons and two purchased 18 gallons.

Local police saw the horde at the station and called store manager Andrea Reuland, who went to the station and pushed the emergency stop.

"There were cars two deep at each of my pumps," said Reuland, who knew many of the drivers and told them they were being dishonest - the main store sign had the correct price.

"I was very upset that there's that many dishonest people," she said. "They knew there was a problem, and they took advantage of an employee's mistake and I think that's terrible."

The employee, who has been there for about six months, had changed the gas prices 25 times in the past six months.

"It was an honest mistake," Reuland said. "I could have done it."

Area residents were still talking about it Friday morning.

"Was it you guys?" a woman in the station asked Reuland. "Why do I always miss the good stuff?"

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Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: candidizzle on December 08, 2007, 01:42:00 PM
what fucking dickhead policeman....why the hell would they call the manager? let the stupid fucking employee be taught a lesson, and let everybody have their fun and get the cheap gas!
i would bitch slap those cops if i got the chance
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Fury on December 08, 2007, 01:43:58 PM
what fucking dickhead policeman....why the hell would they call the manager? let the stupid fucking employee be taught a lesson, and let everybody have their fun and get the cheap gas!
i would bitch slap those cops if i got the chance

Who are you kidding? They would bitch slap the acne scars right off your face.
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Cap on December 08, 2007, 01:44:15 PM
what fucking dickhead policeman....why the hell would they call the manager? let the stupid fucking employee be taught a lesson, and let everybody have their fun and get the cheap gas!
i would bitch slap those cops if i got the chance
You have a chance everyday dickhead.  Roll the dice and take your chances.  Make sure you wear TapOut gear when you get tazed.  You'll look tougher.   ::)
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Pollux on December 10, 2007, 04:24:45 AM
Honest mistake? Yeah.

Dishonest people? Maybe.

Sorry, but mistake or not we ALL would've gotten the gas just as well...even the manager!

Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: ToxicAvenger on December 10, 2007, 06:31:37 AM
what fucking dickhead policeman....why the hell would they call the manager? let the stupid fucking employee be taught a lesson, and let everybody have their fun and get the cheap gas!
i would bitch slap those cops if i got the chance

cause the owner could go out of buziness if he cant make his franchise fees for that month..

someone simply forgot to add a zero...we've made that mistake on ocassion and the customers always let us know...
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: 24KT on December 12, 2007, 01:34:29 PM
cause the owner could go out of buziness if he cant make his franchise fees for that month..

someone simply forgot to add a zero...we've made that mistake on ocassion and the customers always let us know...

...before or after they filled up?
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Princess L on December 12, 2007, 09:07:08 PM
Minoqua is a very small town in northern Wisconsin ~ the kind of town where everyone knows everyone basically.  I can't imagine taking advantage of one of my neighbors like that  >:(  If I was the station owner I would seriously consider publishing the names of those did in the local paper or at least posting them up at the station.
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: blinky on December 12, 2007, 10:19:11 PM
obviously i dont know the whole story but im prety sure i would have gotten the gas too....im sure most here would have also.

sometimes up here gas station have "gas wars" and drop their prices. how were the people there to know that the owners werent doing this? i couldnt be missing a big part of the story though
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Princess L on December 13, 2007, 10:49:38 AM
obviously i dont know the whole story but im prety sure i would have gotten the gas too....im sure most here would have also.

sometimes up here gas station have "gas wars" and drop their prices. how were the people there to know that the owners werent doing this? i couldnt be missing a big part of the story though

Maybe if it was some big corportate "no name, no face" kind of situation (Like Wal Mart), but not a small town mom & pop kind of place.
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: Pollux on December 14, 2007, 11:04:02 AM
...before or after they filled up?

Right. Hahahaha...  :D
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: MoralMan on December 26, 2007, 08:14:33 AM
what fucking dickhead policeman....why the hell would they call the manager? let the stupid fucking employee be taught a lesson, and let everybody have their fun and get the cheap gas!
i would bitch slap those cops if i got the chance

Course you would. ::)
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: 24KT on December 26, 2007, 05:30:03 PM
try bitch slapping this guy on the left. he's 6'4 270. call the central park precinct and ask for kh300.

Oh crap! Why do I keep mouthing off to good looking guy?  ::)

How do you whistle on these boards anyhow? Ron needs to install a whistle emoticon.

Dammit, why are all the cute ones neo-con suck ups.  >:(
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: kh300 on December 27, 2007, 08:06:03 AM
Oh crap! Why do I keep mouthing off to good looking guy?  ::)

How do you whistle on these boards anyhow? Ron needs to install a whistle emoticon.

Dammit, why are all the cute ones neo-con suck ups.  >:(

thanks, but thats why i shouldnt post after hanging out at the bar all day
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: BayGBM on December 27, 2007, 10:22:03 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: 24KT on December 27, 2007, 07:01:27 PM
thanks, but thats why i shouldnt post after hanging out at the bar all day

{LOL} You should have heard me swear when I saw I-Ones pic of himself at 21.  :-X
My only consolation is that he claims the years haven't been good to him since,
...and I believe he's currently taken. Tell me at least that you're dating Ann Coulter or something.

ps - I guess I got the answer to my earlier question. The booze always reveals the truth.  :-*
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: 24KT on December 27, 2007, 07:04:08 PM
;D

It's brings a smile to my face too. Do you have a date & location on that?
Is that the same SF Shell station you posted before?
Title: Re: 33-cent gas!
Post by: BayGBM on December 27, 2007, 11:02:20 PM
It's brings a smile to my face too. Do you have a date & location on that?
Is that the same SF Shell station you posted before?

No. That station closed. This is from a station in San Mateo.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas27dec27,0,7315706.story?coll=la-home-center