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Adjusting for inflation.
I hate inflation! In summary, it is not great to pay more. Wait – my summary is longer than my statement!
Thank God! I’ve been looking for freeps everywhere.
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this
^ Better than the fail.
Another pump couldn’t be working and just have that one “off the hook” too?
Probably just pulled the hose from the other side while pumping gas with the supposedly screwed up pump. That’s why they didnt get a view of the hose, they didnt want people to see where it went. Only fail here is if people believe it.
exactly what I was thinking…….
The guy who made this video done goofed. This pump has a digital on it, and digitals don’t fail. If it had an analog, then I could back-trace the error.
Clearly there’s a slow leak somewhere.
no that’s just a different pump nozel – fail if you believed it. You can hear the gas pumping on the audio track.
Just because the pump is running, doesn’t mean it’s doing anything.
Its digital, must be a memory leak.
fail at trying to make a fail
that makes 4 of us
People want to appear on failblog that badly…
well that is pretty pathetic. first we have forced memes. and now force fails? OUCH!!! ow, that hurt! Did anyone else just feel that? The IQ for the entire population of Earth just collapsed.
*rubs back of head* Yeah, and I hit my head when it happened…ow.
Yeah because people that come on Fail Blog have such an high IQ to begin with
I’m doing my best to NOT appear in a fail.
You’re cool enough to, even if you fail, be considered a win.
<3
(I'm adorable)
It’s possible it’s faked, sure. We didn’t see enough to really assure its authenticity. But on the other hand, that’s the slowest pump I’ve ever seen. It’s dispensing, what, a thousandth of a gallon per second or so? You’d take two hours to fill even a small tank at that rate. That suggests that this might just be a real malfunction in the system.
My thoughts exactly.
Either that or the system has been tampered with. One or two bucks extra per tank filling would amount to a nice extra earning on an average day. I would probably send the authorities up their asses.
That has happened before. We did a news story on a similar scam about 7 years ago.
My car has a 45litre tank. I put in 52 litres the other day. Pumps screw up all the time.
And no, of course I didn’t pay. Not for any of it. Effing Theives. That’s why you should run your tank from full to empty every time! you’d never know if they charged you for more than you’re actually getting!
running your tank clear to empty is actually bad for the engine… I know from experience… my family had an ’89 Chevy Caviler and we were near Empty trying to get to a gas station and the engine never ran the same again… it died completely maybe 3-5 months after that.
That is because it was an old Cavalier, not because of the gas.
This happens all the time at a gas station near me. They have to reset the pumps or something. It sucks when it happens during a busy time because no one can be pumping while they’re being reset, so everyone driving up doesn’t listen when people tell them don’t pump and makes EVERYONE wait longer.
that’s what I was thinking
this is fake and gay!!
Yeah, plus some pumps have more than one on the same side (diesel, unleaded, etc)
I call fake.
Actually, I worked at a gas station when there was that day when Canadians freaked out a couple years ago. Everyone was told that the gas price was going to skyrocket the next day so EVERYONE went to get gas. We actually ran out of gas and the pumps kept running. We had to wait till another tankard came in and delivered us more gas. It was pretty much bar up the windows, put out signs and listen to the people roar with anger. I didn’t buy gas that day, and the price was the same the next day. It could of been from all those people buying gas… huh.
Although that is the most likely explanation, I have had this happen to me (at a very similar-looking pump). I didn’t notice it until I stopped pumping and was getting ready to return the nozzle to it’s holder and saw the pump still ticking (albeit slower than this).
exactly what i was thinking.
This fail is a fail within itself
1)The guy could be pumping from the other bowser
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2) I see him as a bigger fail as he’s using a camera while pumping. stuff mythbusters get real.
2) where does a camera give off a spark? or did you just never see that mythbusters? or maybe youre just a moron conspiracy theorist that doesnt understand simple concepts.
ELECTRONICS WILL NEVER IGNITE FUMES UNLESS THERE IS A SPARK FROM THEM
The only reason anyone ever thought that mobile phones/other electronics gave off a spark was because of a case in America in which a woman was on her phone at the pump. She was wearing nylon clothing which as we all know can generate static electricity, said static generated a tiny spark which ignited the gas vapour nearby.
The attendants noted on the video that she was on her phone and that this MUST have been the cause. However, the many experiments which have been carried out by pretty much everyone with a mobile phone at a petrol station prove otherwise. One such experiment of note was Top Gears whereby they forced a gas filled caravan to explode with a large number of mobiles simply due to the overwhelming heat they produced when they were all called at once.
Phones do not, cannot and will not generate sparks when used normally.
^Thank you sir!
That wasn’t Top Gear. It was Richard Hammond, but it was Brainiac. And they tried using loads of phones but it still never went up, in the end they got a guy dressed in nylon to generate static electricity and then used that to explode the caravan…..with fantastic results.
I think they decided it was because she was getting in and out of the car while pumping the gas.
“If I were a boy. I think I could understand”…
Nice.
i actually had that happen to me on thursday..it clicked and was no longer pumping, and the handle was not in its locked position, and the ticker continued to go up until i returned the spout to the pump..i got charged 13 mother effin cents for gas i didn’t even get!!
It was at a Texaco, so to all you non-believers, this sh*t does happen.
A Fail at Failing….he was holding the diesel pump while pumping regular gas.
that wasnt the diesel pump, it wasnt green
Right, because all diesel pumps in the world are green. Try to experience life outside of your city, there’s a lot out there.
Most of the diesel pumps i’ve seen are green….most of them, not all.
In this country all Diesel pumps are Black and Unleaded Petrol is Green. I know as I just had my own FAIL and put Petrol in my Diesel car!
Whelp little buddy, in the state of Texas they are all green, its the law.
quite often Diesel is black – green often represents E10
Not in where I live. Diesel is always green handle in my part of Michigan. The pump in the video is defiantly in USA as it has Gallons. No other countries uses gallon anymore, they go by liter instead.
This. You need to look at the size of the nozzle, not the color of the handle. Diesel nozzles are considerably larger than gasoline/petrol.
But if someone were pumping gas and he’s just holding a different handle. That’s the slowest pump ever.
I work on fuel dispensers and what he showed does indeed happen. There is a small hose inside the main hose and small little o-rings that seal it off from the fuel flow, if one of those o-rings goes bad the hose will bleed into that smaller hose. It’s actually quite common if you live in an area that has vapor recovery at the dispensers.
Also unscrupulous station owners used to do this long ago to cheat customers. It’s easier to spot now as we don’t have full service pumps and know when it happens sometimes. It’s also very illegal in most states and I really hope the guy sent this to his local TV station so they could shame the station and report them to the proper authorities.
For those of you saying this is not a fail, shame on you. You deserve to get taken advantage of because you erroneously believe in the honesty of others with no proof of it.
I highly recommend making your money at casinos and visiting psychics for your life planning decisions. Oh, that sounds like something an idiot would do? Hmmm… you have a point.
Says you, believing in the honesty of the video submitter with no proof of it. . .
Hear, hear! Tell that troll off!
“I have tasted my own medicine, and IT IS BITTER.”
30 sec fabreeze ad = revenue model FAIL
Agreed. Most times when I see an ad that will be more than 10 seconds, I just close the tab, unless the subject of the video is potentially REALLY interesting.
Seriously, I don’t know what ad you are talking about. I didn’t see an ad at all.
I see no ad either, but I have FF + ABP installed.
So do I
abp
apb ftw
I loved apb on the spectrum.
All of you who think this is faked deserve to get ripped off. THis happens all the time, and the state comes down hard on stations caught doing it.
Try to make a pump run that slow yourself and see. it cannot happen.
The other scam station owners do is add water to the underground tank. You can tell you’ve just been screwed this way when driving away from the station; your car will bog out when stepping on the gas.
Sean, they never add water to the tanks. They are all required to have fuel management systems that detect water in the tanks. The owners of these fuel stations rely on repeat business to make the station successful. The last thing they want to do is ripoff a customer just to make a few extra bucks.
Really? Did you know that on the day of 9/11/01, half the gas stations around the US jacked up their price for no reason? Shortly after, they faced charges for doing that.
Here in Ohio,we had three brothers make an HONEST assumption that prices were going to skyrocket. All of them ran down and jumped up their prices because they couldn’t get the oil company on the phone to verify it. They guessed at $6.50/gal when they real price was around $2.00/gal.
Betty Montgomery (our State Attorney General at the time) came down HARD on these guys! She made them give refunds to anyone who had kept their receipts, and I think she fined them too. It was all done in a week, and I’ve been a fan of hers ever since.
Tell that to my girlfriends father who had to drain a few gallons of water out of her fuel tank after she’d filled it
Did you sleep through the part of science class where they talked about how oil and water don’t mix?
Did you sleep though the part of science class where they talked about how gasoline is NOT oil?
It may be derived from oil, but shares very few characteristics with the black stuff. One is that is can absorb quite a bit of water. Especially if the gasoline contains ethanol, and is usual nowadays.
“hygroscopic”, just like anti-freeze
You spelled Trogdor wrong. Just thought you should know.
Actually, the a station in my hometown of Burlington did both (rigged tampered with flow sensor AND put enough water in the fuel to cause tens of thousands in damage to customer’s cars).
And let me tell you, the backlash was extreme.
Sounds more like you bought fuel with a high biofuel content. That stuff naturally soaks up water. Also clogs up your engine.
That would involve the extremely rare privately owned gas bar. Most gas stations are owned by the oil companies and they regularely check for water. It’s not intentionally added to the tanks but some always gets in, you have to keep it below a maximum amount. The gas floats on top of the water so you just have to keep the water below the pick up for the pump.
No way somebody deliberately adds water to the underground tanks. Cars run like crap with water in the fuel, and it’s easily detected. A station (who makes very little from a gallon of gas) cannot afford the backlash from that happening accidentally, let alone on purpose.
I worked at and eventually managed a service station for 8 years. I had a long stick that I used to manually gauge the depth of fuel in the tanks every morning and night. I had a paste that I’d put on the tip to detect water. It’s total BS to think that anybody would deliberately add water.
Probably couldn’t have faked this. It would be hard to have three hands. One to hold the nozzle, one to record, and one to pump gas.
are you retarded? you dont need to hold the nozzle in your car. you can just leave it there. two hands is enough
In some countries you do need to hold the nozzle (a safety feature) – not in LA though
Or someone else could be pumping the gas, though the pump was probably left in the car on the slowest setting. Some of the pumps at self serve can only be set to the slowest setting when not being held.
Maybe, but I’ve never seen a slow setting THAT slow before.
I can’t believe that you think this is real? I bet they hired some professional guys to do it
Gas? You want gas is that what you want?
THERE IS NO GAS! GAS IS JUST A MYTH!!!
Gas? Gas? – I see no gas! that fuel is clearly a liquid!
The gas is a lie!!!!
Well if you take a look at your gas pumps (at least the ones in Nevada) they are inspected and calibrated by the government every 1-2 years, so it would be hard for something like this to happen.
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Stupid comment warning! Over here in England, we put either petrol or deisel in to our vehicles (except for the rare LPG and electics). So when we hear Americans talking about gas, we have a right laugh. Fancy calling a liquid ‘gas’. Maybe that’s why it can’t be seen in the clip? Yes, yes, we do know that it’s an abbreviation of gasoline. O.K., tongue now coming back out of cheek.
Yes, we call it “gas”, but you Brits have “boots” and “bonnets” on your cars…
Yeah, we like pretty cars so we put bonnets on them, and the boots stop them getting muddy.
You Americans have “trunks” and “hoods” as if you’re turning the car into some hoodlum elephant!
This made me laugh a little. I’m not sure why “hoods” are called “hoods” but “trunks” are called “trunks” because before cars came equipped with “boots” or “trunks” people literally strapped trunks to the back of their cars for storage while driving. I think it would be quite funny if people had called them “foot lockers” or something like that instead.
I remember hearing my grandfather refer to the trunk (boot) as a “turtlehull”. Don’t know where that one came from.
I’m assuming hood and bonnet as they provide cover to the head/front of the car.
Having a boot cover the foot/back of the car works with that thought too.
Could you imagine saying “That girl has got a little junk in the boot” Doesn’t work as well as “Junk in the trunk”
We say she has a nice booty.
what the hell is gasoline – it’s petroleum!
I feel like pointing this out just because I can. Petrol and Petroleum are not the same thing.
Petroleum is crude oil.
Petrol is Gasoline which is fuel oil. You can also say Gasoline is Petrol because I really don’t care.
I think Petrol is just short for petroleum product, it’s not a very exact description. How about Octane plus fillers.
You call diesel fuel diesel, that’s bloody silly. A diesel is a type of internal combustion engine, not a fuel.
We laugh at “boot” and “bonnet”. A boot goes on the foot usually made of leather with a rubber sole. A bonnet is a type of ladies hat. Neither one look anything like what is on your car nor are they in the same general location. I would get it if you called the tires boots, but the trunk doesn’t contain feet. It does however resemble the thing you put clothing in for going on long vacations which is what the trunk is used for quite a lot. As far as hood vs bonnet goes well, it just wouldn’t sound cool if you said I have white racing strips and cowl induction on my bonnet.
Too those saying this isn’t real. First thing is that when pumping gas the meters go up faster. Second thing, the news covered this happening at LA gas stations recently. In fact at one gas station it went almost all day, until the owner was called by KTLA and informed of the problem, at which time he told his employees they needed to mark it out of order.
I’m sure if most of us got charged an extra dollar for gas at a pump, we’d do the right thing and buy more so we can record it.
This is a win for the pump owner
why cant we report comments/people btw? obvious scam is obvious
don’t you just love how everyone gets so worked up over this? hahahaha
Great, now even the thought of gasoline is going up….
Great, now even the thought of gasoline is going up….
Goodbye Failblog. Hate the ads.
I sure hope he did use a credit card to activate the pump.
That is going to go on his card and he didn’t get any gas out of it.
Now this is a good way to set up a business.
This is a win because the guy filmed it. Some gas station owners rig their pumps so that they are intentionally inaccurate, which increases their profits. The easiest way to tell is if the pump says you’ve bought more gas than your tank actually holds.
@ Rena… you could do that if you’re filling the tank, know exactly how many gallons you currently have in the tank, and at exactly what point your tank will trip the full sensor in the pump. most people do not. However, if you know you purchased $20.00 worth of fuel at 3.40 a gallon, then you know you should have gotten 5.88 gallons
4.109/gal! Glad I don’t live there.
For those who scream fake. It could be, I won’t argue that it is not, there is a lot the guy didn’t show us and it could be possible that he is just holding a different nozzle. I would like to argue that this stuff happens all the time. Unscrupulous gas station owners have been caught tampering with pumps to make them misrepresent how much gas was actually pumped. Digital pumps make it harder, but not impossible. Next time you are at a gas station look around there will probably be a pump with a bag on it. This could just be a malfunction with the device that detects flow. When one of those break you will usually know it by having gas overflow out of your tank and down the side of your car.
gake and fay.
The Department of Weights and Measures would be interested in this if it’s real.
i have my 2 receipts from Chino Hills, CA chevron gas station, and i also uploaded the pics on my photobucket, and on my facebook, if anyone still dont belive me, just ask for me e-mail and i will send u the pics.
classic… gas bastards
Thats how i get my gas for free!!!!….Who told?
fake and gay
I will tell you something. if you say fill it up with 1 gallon you thin 1 gallon. but in the real world you get something around 0.9 gallon. rofl
I repair gas dispensers daily, and this isn’t very abnormal. Gas is most likely leaking from hardware inside the dispenser. The clicking you hear in the video is the gas flowing through the meter, which is why the display is increasing. How does this happen? When people pull the hose off rapidly or at an odd angle, this can happen. This can also happen if someone hits the dispenser with their vehicle. There doesn’t have to be a lot of cosmetic damage to cause this type of issue.
It’s also not the station trying to rip anyone off; the person who damaged the pump probably didn’t report the damage to the station attendant, in fear of having to pay for repair. No business operator in their right mind would modify the dispenser so that it leaked. Beyond customer complaints, it is also out of regulation until it is repaired. The guy should just let the attendant know the pump is damaged.
OH MY GOD, these ads of the Visigoth Sports Net is so annoying. Will never again watch videos here
looks like a leak of some sort…
i don’t think it’s a fake because it’s hard to imagine someone being able to control a gas pump well enough to pump out 0.001 gallons in a steady fashion at 1 second intervals… at least i am not able to do it with the pumps in my area anyway.
This same thing happened to me last summer but not at the level that is happening with this guys. Every 10-20 seconds, the pump would show that the gas was going up .002 to .003 at a time after I was done pumping. I got a video of it on my cell-phone too. I told the gas station attendant about it, got some free drink coupons and there was even a “technician” there that came out and looked at it. I’d like to see a person add two thousandths or three thousandths of a gallon of gas at one time.
I’ve worked at Gas stations for 13 years.
That looks like there is a leak in the dispenser or a faulty meter, ans should be reported to the attendant immediately.
This is not how unscrupulous station owners cheat customers, that is done by adjusting the meter calibration.
For those talking about water:
Gasoline floats on water. Gas tanks are monitored for water in one or more of several ways. It is not uncommon for there to be an inch or 2 of water in the bottom of a gas tank. For this reason the inlet of the gas pump is usually 7-8 inches above the bottom of the tank.
It is very funny when one person, out of the 1000+ customers that day, claims to get “bad” gas when no one else did.
im guessing it had a blown meter gasket. or possibly a bad meter check valve.
usually this means there is a small amount of air getting through the meter valve. you should instruct the gas attendant to call service, and seek a refund. this happens rarely. the station i work at sells 15,000+ gallons of reg unleaded per DAY. and i have seen this happen i think 3 times in 4 years. all 3 times, the pump was shut down until service replaced the meter.
if a gas pump goes empty and you go as if you are pumping gas the meter will still climb
20 second ad for a 23 second video? No thanks.
erm, isnt unsafe to use electrical equipment at a fuel pump, because im guessing that a mobile phone
It is EXTREMELY unsafe to use any kind of electronic device within 50 yards of a gas pump. This includes (but is not limited to) cell phones, cameras, hearing aides, night vision goggles, keyless entry remotes, pacemakers, helmet flashlights, vibrators, electronic smoking devices, fog machines, iPods, portable radios, walkie-talkies, cordless microphones, laptops, DVD players, and electric turkey carving knives.
/sarcasm off
Actually, if it doesn’t produce a spark (cameras and cell phones do not produce sparks), then it’s perfectly safe. The only electronic device I’d for sure avoid using around gas pumps is an electronic stove starter.
The nozzle shown in the video is from another pump. His friend is pumping the gas using that pump while he grabbed another nozzle to make this video
- it’s probably Turkey