Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
by b00ty4breakfast on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:37PM
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I've been using a debit card since the Dubya administration and I have never had someone use my card after I ate at a restaurant. I assume you live in a big metro area?
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In Texas about a decade ago there was a criminal enterprise out of Houston that was putting swimmers on gas station pumps all over the state. Little towns, big towns, country gas stations. My now wife got hit that way.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
by happyopossum on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:23PM
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Swimming at a gas station pump would be uncomfortably lethal.
I wonder how well you would have to be able to swim to overcome the density/buoyancy difference if swimming in a pool of gasoline?
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
by swiftcoder on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:40AM
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It's a pretty drastic density difference. I think an Olympic swimmer would have a hard time staying above the surface.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
by rationalist on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:05PM
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It depends how long you can hold your breath. I imagine many people would be overwhelmed by the fumes before they got very far.
Gasoline fight!
Ah, 12 hours later I log back in to see skimmers got autocorrected to swimmers.
I am, but some of these events were when I was traveling through smaller Midwest towns. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to it.
In any case, it hasn't happened again since I started using tap to pay whenever possible.