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To: Carolyn who wrote (256004)	6/28/2008 11:03:46 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793843

How soon will this start happening here?? guardian.co.uk Mad Max in the UK? "Diesel thieves strike it rich in rural areas by draining farmers' fuel tanks · Gangs tail tankers in vans to find full containers · Petrol stations installing 'stingers' to stop drive-offs It may not be quite like the film Mad Max out there, with violent gangs roaming Britain in search of the few remaining drops of fuel, but for farmers like Eddie Cowpe it feels a little bit like it. He returned to his farm shop in Lancashire recently to find that thieves had emptied his 10,000-litre diesel tank. What they did not take they let drain away on to his stone yard and into the water course, leaving Cowpe facing a bill of almost £70,000 for the fuel lost and the clean-up. "I said two years ago that this country was going to see serious civil unrest and riots because of food and fuel shortages," said Cowpe. "It's going to come true. It's a frightening scenario. These people are morons and vandals. They just don't care. I don't know where it's going to end." ... One victim, Jon Ward, of West Sussex, has gone to great lengths to stop thieves striking at his tank again. He has three dogs in his garden, has set up security lighting and CCTV and built a fence topped with razor wire. "Let the bastards try it now. Shotgun is also at the ready," he said. ... Drive-offs from petrol stations rose by 13% last year, at a cost of £32.5m. Jaginder Singh Mudhar's family had to close down their petrol station in the Midlands because they were so badly hit by drive-offs - so he decided to invent a device to stop it happening to other people. The Drivestop device, a set of spikes that puncture tyres if someone tries to leave a forecourt without paying, has been installed at 18 sites. Drive-offs at these forecourts have stopped completely."