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How honest are you?
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How honest are you?
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[/URL][/align]Wis. drivers line up for gas at 33 cents Wis. drivers line up for gas at 33 cents Fri Dec 7, 11:28 PM ET
[/align][/align]Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon.
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?"[/align][/align]
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RE: How honest are you?
As bad as I hate to admit it, caught up in the excitement of finding fuel at $.33 cent a gal,
I would have probably topped off my tank.
Then feeling so damn guilty about it, gone back and paid up the difference.
I would have probably topped off my tank.
Then feeling so damn guilty about it, gone back and paid up the difference.
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being a business owner myself i would have the respect to help out the owners of the business and possibly by being so honest i would end up having a good business relationship with them and posibly getting an honest deal out of it.
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Yours would be the easier and more honorable course of action...........Kudos to you sir!
For the record: I was talking about making an "at the pump/at the time" decision, not a premeditated thing.
For the record: I was talking about making an "at the pump/at the time" decision, not a premeditated thing.
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I would of filled up all my cars...my boats 36 gallon tank and bought all the gas cans from every store within 50 miles and filled them up too....then the next day I would of set up a stand a mile away and sold gas for $1.33 a gallon....is that dishonest?
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it wouldn't be any more dishonest then mohammad using the tax laws to his advantage... by changing ownership of the station every 3 years to one of his 400 brothers and thus getting the tax breaks for new businesses...
