• Carmakazi@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    Not that I’m looking for advice on stealing gasoline from people, but doesn’t like every car made for the last 20 years have a mesh or something that blocks you from snaking a rubber hose into the tank?

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      12 days ago

      A lot of the doors are also locked as well. Cant open unless the key is inside the car or pop it manually with a button.

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        12 days ago

        Yeah, a lot of the time the fuel door either locks with the regular doors or they require pulling a lever in the cabin. That being said, people forget to lock their doors sometimes, and I can’t imagine the latch is that strong.

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      Yeah there’s a lot of things in place to prevent this, however most gas tanks are plastic now and one could easily punch a hole and drain it that way.

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        12 days ago

        It’s seems like anyone doing this kind of thing wouldn’t have the discipline or forethought to transfer the gasoline from a large shallow pan you would have to fit under the car, to an actual canister you could transport effectively. Resulting in a lot of waste and damage for very little profit.

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          What you do is have a tube with an end that fits the hole you melt, connected via a little pump to your jerrycan. Bob’s your uncle.

          At least, if I was doing it, like a prick who did not care about damaging someone’s car, that would be how.

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      12 days ago

      Not that I’m looking for advice on stealing gasoline from people

      Whew, for a moment there I was getting a little suspicious… 🤔 (/s)

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              I’m speaking as a DND player. I once spent a non-insignificant amount of time researching common, naturally found poisions that are difficult to detect because I was playing a poisoner ranger in a futuristic setting where earth was getting torn apart. (We were on a giant space station and would go to earth for missions)