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Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale by b00ty4breakfast on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:37PM (#46879019)
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?
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale by pixl97 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:57PM (#46879259)
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 (#46880640)
Swimming at a gas station pump would be uncomfortably lethal.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale by dghlsakjg on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:00AM (#46882442)
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 (#46883182)
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 (#46889272)
It depends how long you can hold your breath. I imagine many people would be overwhelmed by the fumes before they got very far.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale by bregma on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:18AM (#46884457)
Gasoline fight!
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale by pixl97 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:49AM (#46886482)
Ah, 12 hours later I log back in to see skimmers got autocorrected to swimmers.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale by kstrauser on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:58PM (#46879281)
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.