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    Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank

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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/01/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    Should have gotten an RS... maybe they'd only have charged him $60 billion instead.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    That federal gas guzzler charge is a bitch, yo.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    That's funny, I hear the new Camaro is going to end up costing the taxpayer about the same amount.
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    Image of elitza owns the last Enzo shirt elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
    02/27/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon: Oh dear.


    So many great comments in here--I'll just nominate the whole damn thread for COTD.

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    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    You would think Paypal would have been tipped off that the guy would have had to at least take a bathroom break after pumping 40.7B gallons of gas for 67,834 hours.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/27/09

    @maximum-sienna already has a BMW GPS unit: I'd like to point out that 67,000+hrs is about eight years.


    "Do not leave pump unattended while dispensing fuel." Here, watch this for me? I gotta take a dump. Again.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    02/27/09

    @Elhigh: And 67834000 hours is 7738 years.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/27/09

    @A Strolling Lucida G Luxury Joyful Player, back by popular ...: ...gonna need another sandwich.
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    Image of wkiernan wkiernan
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    The average cost of regular gasoline in the U.S.A. is currently $1.91 per gallon; thus $26 equates to about 13.6 gallons. A gallon equals 3785 cubic centimeters. The density of plutonium is 19.82 grams per cubic centimeter. Plutonium allegedly costs about $4000 per gram - not that I've bought any lately, so interested buyers should check with vendors in Pakistan and North Korea to find out what the current market prices are.


    Thus if Mr. Zamora had chosen 238 octane Plutonium at the pump instead of regular, he'd have paid a mere $4-billion to fill 'er up. Of course, well before the tank got full its contents would have reached critical mass, and melted down his car, the gas station, himself and the immediate neighborhood.

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    02/27/09

    @wkiernan: COTD nom.
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    Image of elitza owns the last Enzo shirt elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
    02/27/09

    @discontinuuity: YES. Wholeheartedly agree.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/27/09

    @discontinuuity: Likewise.
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    Image of Stevebouf Stevebouf
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    apparently that station was having a special on gas made from god's tears and elements harvested from saturn's rings, strangely the camaro only managed 8 mpg
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    Image of Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish!
    02/27/09

    @Stevebouf: Don't forget liquefied unicorn farts.
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    Image of jesusonthedashboard jesusonthedashboard
    02/27/09

    @Stevebouf: I wish cars ran on god's tears, then anytime I needed a fillup I could just rub one out.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/28/09

    @Rockford Brodie aka Cobra Retreat: I think that may only work if gas was made from dead kittens...


    Wait, didn't I hear something about a year ago about some British guy that was making bio-diesel from road-killed cats?

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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    True story: Co-worker called his credit card company to cancel his card because there were unauthorized charges. Rep in India asked incredulously: Why would anyone steal someone else's credit card number?
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    those crafty bankers!
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    If this ever happened to me I would probably just choke to death on my own rage
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    Image of tgpt tgpt
    02/27/09

    @Cognitive Friction: if this happened I think I would just ignore it and wait to see how long it took PayPal to figure it out.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/28/09

    @tgpt: I would walk into the Conoco world headquarters the next day and claim to own the place.
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    Image of flim flim
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    I love how those call center people all have very thick indian accents, and yet have very WASP names like Steve, or Jennifer. As if that were going to make us not resent them or make it easier to understand them.
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    Image of jduffy13 jduffy13
    02/27/09

    @flim:


    I called the California DMV for some help and the person on the phone had a decidedl southern accent. I asked them if they had moved to California. They said no, that they were from Tennessee and that was where they were working.


    Apparently the state of California farms out their DMV information from a call center in Tennessee. So my DMV dollars don't even pay for Californians to make money but rather hillbillies in Tennessee.


    It has gotten so twisted out there.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    02/27/09

    @jduffy13: A lot of times those are prisons.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    02/27/09

    @Mad_Science: I meant the call centers, not the DMV...but both are true.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/27/09

    @jduffy13: We're not all hillbillies, thanks.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    02/27/09

    @Mad_Science: No, the DMV staff belong IN prison.
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    02/27/09

    @jduffy13: For what it's worth, last time I was at the DMV the guy in line in front of me tried to sell me weed.
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    Image of jduffy13 jduffy13
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    Gee that must be the first problem anyone has ever had with Paypal.


    And what's a Conoco? Sounds like something your parents warned you about in high school.

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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    02/27/09

    @jduffy13: Conoco/Phillips


    They're both pretty rare around here, but I see them a lot more in the mid-Atlantic states.

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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    No se ganó Zamora en una hora
    (Se ganó en un segundo)


    /apologies to Spain

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    Image of dmdukejr dmdukejr
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    I don't care - I still think those are good looking cars. But I say crack pipe on the gas, unless it was 1092 octane.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    02/27/09

    @dmdukejr - more of a twatter than a twitter: Yeah, I hate cheap performance. Don't like the rattles and squeaks? Get a louder stereo. It's worked for me for years but I'm going a bit deef.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    02/27/09

    @dmdukejr - more of a twatter than a twitter: I'm with you man. Remember when it was the best bang for the buck on the road? 300 HP in the SS and a six speed!
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    02/27/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Dude, at the end (the LS years) the Z28 was over 300 and the SS was like 330, dubiously rated lower than the Vette for decorum's sake.
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    Image of PetroSapien PetroSapien
    02/27/09

    @Mad_Science: I think he's talking the circa. late-90's 305hp SS's as the period for best bang for the buck.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    02/27/09

    @PetroSapien: I am, the cow-eyed refresh killed the styling for me.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    Dammit, I must have put the decimal point in the wrong place!


    "We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison."


    It was nice knowing you guys.

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    Image of Electro Gyrocator Electro Gyrocator
    02/27/09

    In reply to Driver Charged $81 Billion For Filling Camaro Gas Tank
    The last thing these bastards are is my "Pal." Last I heard, they do mostly functions of a bank, but they aren't insured or regulated like a bank. So when they do screw you like this, it's much harder to get recourse.
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    Image of Pibbs Pibbs
    02/27/09

    @LamerX - Reverse donuts on your lawn!: I just closed my Paypal account. Apparently security is not high on their priority list, and according to this article, neither is Customer Service.
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    02/27/09

    @MrPibbistheGreatestSodaEver: Good thing Jalopnik has such good cotomer sevis.
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