33-cent gas fuels frenzy

33-cent gas fuels frenzy

Check out this Article you will get a big laugh out of it ....


Drivers swarm a Wisconsin gas station overnight to take advantage of a pricing error.



Fri Dec 7, 11:28 PM ET



MINOCQUA, Wis. - Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon.

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An employee closing Trig's Minocqua Shell for the night mistakenly entered the price of a gallon of gasoline as 32.9 cents instead of $3.299 on Monday night.

He left about 10 p.m., but drivers could still use their credit cards to buy gas.

Word of the bargain spread fast in the rural northern Wisconsin community, with 42 people buying 586 gallons of gas in an hour and 45 minutes. One person had pumped 27 gallons and two purchased 18 gallons.

Local police saw the horde at the station and called store manager Andrea Reuland, who went to the station and pushed the emergency stop.

"There were cars two deep at each of my pumps," said Reuland, who knew many of the drivers and told them they were being dishonest — the main store sign had the correct price.

"I was very upset that there's that many dishonest people," she said. "They knew there was a problem, and they took advantage of an employee's mistake and I think that's terrible."

The employee, who has been there for about six months, had changed the gas prices 25 times in the past six months.

"It was an honest mistake," Reuland said. "I could have done it."

Area residents were still talking about it Friday morning.

"Was it you guys?" a woman in the station asked Reuland. "Why do I always miss the good stuff?"

LOL Don't blame the people. Blame the oil companies for gouging the customers for so long. One ill turn deserves another.

Don't be so quick to blame the oil companies. How bout blaming OPEC for charging so much per barrel? How bout the envorionmentalist nutjobs for not letting us drill for new oil?

There's a lot more than just the oil companies running here.

That's true. But we can all agree that the customers can't be blamed for not being "honest".

I wish I lived in wisconsin for that.....I would've gone with gas cans and all!

I wonder if that employee will get fired.....:sad:

I have seen that in FLorida where people are pumping gas at a station that is closed but takes credit cards.... HMMMM>.... I think I will be checking those places now......LOL

what do they expect with gas prices these days?!

I come from WI and if I would have lived there you betcha I would have been there. Blaming the people for being dishonest, what a drag. That's stupid.

I know what you mean we have been getting ripped off from oil companies and when we scream were being ripped off they say its not us its cause it was to cold up north or a hurricane passed through.... Maybe those are excuses we should use.....LOL

Customers can always be blamed for not being honest. Its not like everyone is in the poor house because of gas prices. People are still expected to have honor and integrity...

I cannot say that I would have not done it, but I sure would like to think that I wouldn't.

Well, if it's honesty and integrity then that's what people are lacking, but they still shouldn't be blamed. That gas station should take responsibility for their own ignorant mistake and blame themselves instead of shifting the blame onto others.