The Gas Over Gasoline

Yesterday morning Mike was outside of our home cutting the grass and raking the yard with Brody. I decided to go outside and sweep the sidewalk of the grass clippings when I noticed that Brody was playing with something that looked like a hose. I walked over to where Brody was and I saw that someone had hidden a gas can inside of a burlap sack and a syphon hose was hanging out of the hole for the gas tank of Mike's parents' Suburban, which had been parked adjacent to our garage. Brody had put the hose in his mouth and his clothing and sandals were covered in gasoline. I immediately picked him up and brought him into the house for a bath. Mike discovered that all 40 gallons of gasoline that had been in the Suburban (it had a full tank) had been syphoned out.

Mike called the police and they came over to take a report from him. It was the first call they had received of someone syphoning gas from a vehicle. We also found out while the police were there that our neighbors were also missing half of their gasoline out of their Ford F-150 truck tank (30 gallons).

We decided to buy a key-locking gas cap. With the price of gasoline these days, I am sure we are not the only ones.