Man Arrested for "Hoarding" Gas in 5 Gallon Buckets

WOW! Cops must have nothing better to do!!!!!


Points in fact:
#1: that lid in the back of the van was opened to see what was inside by the cops who took the picture. Every other can was closed.
#2: those containers would NEVER expand enough to pop those lids. I don't care if you stored them like that for years!
#3: farmers have been pouring gas from plastic containers like that for years into generators and such
#4: Cops are a joke in this.
#5: If no other containers like the Gas can is available, this is a perfect substitute! People have been doing it for years.
#6: The gas station owner gets charged too??? WTF If someone robs his store should the gas station owner go to jail as an accomplice as well? Well should he?

What a useless system we have in place for our law enforcement when they can charge and arrest anyone for anything because there are way to many laws in place for them to do so. Whatever happened to freedom.

As for the terrorist aspect of this. Get your heads out of your own asses and out of other peoples. As if a van full of 4 gallon gas containers is going to do anything much. You don't need gas containers to light fires. Any judge worth his weight in awesomeness should throw this out and ask the officers why they are wasting his time! Then put the officers on probation and force them to go to some classes on ethics and humanism.

And if Humanism isn't a course....F you, it should be one, for everyone of these twats!

A+++

Yes, I agree to that, Ive had both, I prefer wood all the way. In my neighborhood alone theres tons of free wood. We had a spring storm that snapped many huge limbs off the trees and people just dragged them to the roadside for disposal

Had a neighbor that hired a tree trimming service and they were going to feed it all into the chipper and I told them all to throw it over the fence into my yard, and they were happy to oblige..

Im not talking branches but good thick pieces that I cut up further and piled it up to age..

Lots of free wood, people try and give away all the time .

A cord of wood is 4x8 Our basement is only half the size of our house (split level). It is 28x18 and 7.5 ft ceiling. You figure it out. lol

Last Edited by Blue Skies on 11/05/2012 12:19 PM

This is a good question, despite all of the other stuff.

correct me if iam wrong but , it isnt the cops who passed a bill and made it law , i beleave it is the states lawmakers.

There are NO gas cans available anymore! What would you do if you were in their position?

There just may come a time when you will do something similar out of need!

While I agree this wasn't the best choice I certainly don't think it amounts to a crime where more tax dollars will be spent needlessly!

^^^^THIS!!!!

Wrong.

You are twisting the story to piss people off.

He was "in violation of regulation concerning flammable or combustible liquids."

Because he put GAS inside HOME DEPOT CONTAINERS which were EXPANDING.

Not hoarding.

If they actually spent the money for proper gas containers it would have been no problem.

Don't tell me there are no gas containers, I am right outside of Boston and travel to NJ daily. I can find plenty.

Last Edited by Inchworm Jim on 11/05/2012 12:36 PM

Thanks for the MUTHER FUCKEN PIN!

Go fuck yourself.

say what ya want people, they are 'unlawful containers' and very dangerous.

Last Edited by thetrickybigguy on 11/05/2012 12:39 PM

Seriously, this man was bringing relief to his community and the centralized police state shit him the fuck down.

Think of all the gas he burned all for fucking nothing, because some idiot couldn't use fucking common sense and let the man deliver the fuel to starving, homeless, cold Americans.

I am in this general area, in fact smack in the middle between Orange County and NYC.

As of last week, no gas cans were available for sale. Nowhere. According to Home Depot they were sold out on the entire east coast. You can get a generator but not a gas can.

I have some of those paint buckets but they are used, not sure if they're clean enough to use as extra gas cans. I only have enough actual gas cans for one day's worth of fuel, so I am refilling every day, and I'd rather have 2 days worth at home, seems we'll be out of power a while longer.

You guys have an excellent manufacturer of those stoves in Pennsylvania, runs on everything, wood pellets, coal, wood, whatever you want. I'm surprised more people don't use them. You can convert them into an electrical generator too.

This.

It's got me thinking that gasoline is intentionally being limited in certain areas in NYC -- is that possible? A nasty thought for sure, but otherwise I'd think the cops would help this guy rather than stop him.

Gasoline is a hazardous material. There are federal regulations for it's safe transport and storage. I was a firefighter for 30 years and fully appreciate the regulations governing the handling of it. That man and the service station that allowed him to fill those buckets were endangering the public.

How the fuck are they anymore dangerous than a plastic gas can?

How?

And don't tell me its because you can't pour the gas out of them.

EVER HEARD OF A FUCKING FUNNEL?

Slippery slope, if they let him get away with this then others will use even more dangerous containers

Sounds like a rolling bomb. I wonder if he smokes!

Would you be ok if he had transported that gas in plastic gas cans?

Uhm...gas canisters have Self-Venting spouts so the can doesn't expand and explode.

Home depot buckets do not.

Remind me never to get with you guys in any survival scenario, the odds will go down dramatically.

Last Edited by Inchworm Jim on 11/05/2012 12:47 PM

So what is it when I drive my car back from the gas station with filled "approved" plastic gas cans in it? What if they are the old type, which cannot be sold any more but are still legal for use if you have them?

That's some pretty bad gasoline that could explode under such slight pressure! Would it be OK if he's bought higher octane (i.e. more explosion-proof)?

A line has been crossed.

i didn't make the law, it just is WTF it is...

nuff said.

The canister explodes from the pressure...not the gas.

Too complex?

In emergencies, it used to be common to ignore stupid laws and exercise judgment. That's our role as humans.

But this stupid zero-tolerance society has turned too many of us into drones, including you.