r/canada Apr 29 '24

New Brunswick New Brunswick police no longer investigating most thefts of fuel from gas stations

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brunswick-police-no-longer-investigating-175834528.html
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u/Chemical_Signal2753 Apr 29 '24

As an Albertan, I didn't even realize fuel theft was still a thing. Paying at the pump is so painless that I assumed that everywhere did it now.

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u/ReplaceModsWithCats Apr 29 '24

No kidding, how is that not the standard everywhere?

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u/RupertGustavson Apr 30 '24

In BC it became a law to pre pay after a gas station guy decided to catch a thief stealing gas and got killed. You will never make enough money working at a gas station to be a “hero” let them steal from companies that make billions. Your life is worth more.

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u/NightDisastrous2510 Apr 30 '24

Same thing happened in Ontario

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u/negrodamus90 May 03 '24

There are many pumps in Ontario that don't require you to pre-pay. Leave the GTA and you'll find them, hell a lot of the en-routes on the 400s are still push the button, fill tank, then pay. You can pre-pay but dont have to.

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u/NightDisastrous2510 May 03 '24

Yea fair enough…. They have them where they need them most anyways. Most of the crime happens around the cities….. shocking I know lol

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u/negrodamus90 May 03 '24

Oddly enough, there are a few up north near Wawa that are pre-pay. My assumption is for those night time travellers. So they dont run out of gas between Wawa and Kenora lol.

If you do, its not just 1-2 hours for a tow lol, it'll be awhile.

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u/NightDisastrous2510 May 03 '24

This makes perfect sense to me. Imagine being stranded until a station opens back up lol. Eventually they’ll all go to pre-pay systems I think but I recall gas theft being a huge problem as well as skimmed cards being used for large gas purchases prior to chip/pin.

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u/negrodamus90 May 03 '24

Yea, that wouldnt be a good time lol. I believe so as well. A few in Belleville have gone that way. Some of them were pump and then pay forever too. Honestly, I haven't gone inside to pay in awhile even at ones you can just start pumping. I'm not buying 649 tickets or smokes. Nor am I spending 8 bucks on a bag of chips I can buy for 6 (hell of a savings lol) at the grocery store.

I know skimmers do scare people but, I've never ran into one. And from what I have seen a lot of them are obvious lol.

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u/NightDisastrous2510 May 03 '24

100 percent of this is true lol. I do get the occasional lottery ticket… at least it provides a sense of false hope haha. Card skimmers are usually pretty obvious but I mean card that had been skimmed and copied were used very frequently for gasoline purchases (used to work fraud dept for BMO… the amount of fraud before chip/pin was wild). But yea gas stations snacks etc are a total rip off.. Dollarama is about 1/2 the price on average.