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Fill ‘er up!
Okay, I feel pretty bad about the downer story from before, especially since the actual lawyers aren’t around and you are stuck with me until the weekend. So maybe I can rummage around in my bin of weird-ass news items to make up for it. Ah, here is something…
It seems a gas station clerk in Charleston, W. Va. got caught giving her family and friends a little “employee discount”. What the big deal? Well, that discount was from the regular $2.999 to about, say, $0.001.
That’s right. A tenth of a penny. PER GALLON. The clerk, her mother, brother, a cousin and two others were arrested through a sting operation after the station owner checked the books. With that kind of ingenious scam, how so ever did they get caught?
Fun fact: there is actually a name for that denomination - the mill (because it is 1/1000 of a dollar).
Comments
Wow, the thought of having mill coins makes me not hate pennies so much... it could be worse!
Posted by three elle | January 24, 2008 1:20 PM
In most states, the definition of theft is stealing something worth at least 1 penny. I guess if their relatives got more than 10 gallons, it meets this threshold, but I can't imagine a judge imposing any sort of punishment. This is pretty retarded.
Posted by William | January 24, 2008 1:50 PM
Well, the gas is worth 2.999 so they were stealing 2.998 per gallon.
Posted by Jennifer | January 24, 2008 2:13 PM
Darn! She was only trying to get rid of that .9. Why can't they just round off?
Posted by raven | January 26, 2008 5:12 PM