{"id":1384847,"date":"2022-03-16T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384847"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:35:55","slug":"thieves-steal-almost-400-gallons-of-gas-from-nc-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thieves-steal-almost-400-gallons-of-gas-from-nc-gas-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Steal Almost 400 Gallons Of Gas From NC Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthieves-steal-almost-400-gallons-of-gas-from-nc-gas-station%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/11E61219-5A14-405F-A580-5641DC67F699-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As gas prices continue to soar across the country, a group of thieves made a run on a gas station in North Carolina, stealing hundreds of dollars in gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>According to local TV station <a href=\"https:\/\/myfox8.com\/news\/north-carolina\/high-point\/400-gallons-of-gas-stolen-from-high-point-gas-station\/\">WGHP<\/a>, the thieves attacked the Bizzy Bee Grocery and BP gas station in High Point, North Carolina, and stole almost 400 gallons of gasoline directly from its pumps late Tuesday evening, after the station had closed for the night. Gas station owner Hardik Patel told WGHP that about 15 cars in total showed up to the pumps, stealing about $1,600 in gas. \u201cI lost a lot of money last night,\u201d Patel said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of money to be lost. It\u2019s really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video included in a TV segment on the theft showed two individuals pulling up to the pump at around 9:23 p.m. One suspect gets out of the passenger side of the car and points a device at the pump. The device put the gas pumps in \u201cstandalone mode,\u201d allowing them to pump gas without charging. Petroleum expert Trey Barker told WGHP that the device was a remote control used by repair technicians and government workers to check that the pumps are dispensing accurately. \u201cThe reason dispensers have this option is so petroleum technicians and NC Weight and Measures can test and calibrate dispensers,\u201d Barker said.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, cars began lining up to take gas from the pump. Surveillance video from shortly after the thieves arrived showed other cars pulling up to the pump, with one of the thieves pumping gas for others who pulled up. \u201cIt lasted about 45 minutes, until about 11:16, that\u2019s when the police found out they were here. But between that time, there were like maybe 15 cars or more. Probably filled [the] gas about close to 400 gallons,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene after a regular customer reported that there was a line of cars waiting at the pumps after the station had closed. \u201cWe have a lot of regulars [watching] around,\u201d Patel said. \u201cAt that time, they knew something [was] wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s abnormal [that] about 10-12 cars at a time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Patel later called a gas technician to fix the pumps, and told the outlet that he was going to shut the pumps off at night to prevent this happening again. \u201cWe\u2019re just going to shut off the [pumps] at night,\u201d Patel told WGHP. \u201cWe didn\u2019t sell a lot of [gas] at night, so I just \u2026 decided not to do it at night. That way I don\u2019t have to go through this again.\u201d Patel also informed a number of other local gas station owners and told the outlet he wants the suspects held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The gas expert said the theft was not common, but he tied it to the record spike in gas prices. The Daily Wire reported last week that gas surged to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-u-s-national-average-price-of-gasoline-hits-new-all-time-record-high-report-says\">record high<\/a> of $4.104 per gallon, breaking the previous record set all the way back in 2008. Gas prices have continued to surge since then and currently sit at about $4.30 per gallon on average nationwide, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">AAA,<\/a> though some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/experts-predict-some-gas-price-relief-after-oil-prices-slide-under-100-a-barrel\">relief<\/a> is expected as oil prices slide downward.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As gas prices continue to soar across the country, a group of thieves made a run on a gas station in North Carolina, stealing hundreds of dollars in gasoline.According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}