Grants Pass; Sugar in Gas Tank - Anyone close??

[Jadvisioness]

From another group. Someone put sugar in a woman's gas tank and she's stuck in Grants Pass. Do we have anyone close who can help?

Thanks!
JAD

 

[Jadvisioness]

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[Qxxx]

Good grief. Too many questions to ask about such a PITN experience. :huh: Some peoples is weird. 

Do you have any idea what the solution is, ie that they used, to deal with sugar in the gas tank?

 

[Jadvisioness]

Someone had posted this response on one of the 7 boards I posted the SOS on:

"[font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]I went through this last year with one of my customers on two vehicles. Both needed fuel filters, fuel pumps and the tank cleaned out and one needed fuel injectors. Good luck with everything."

JAD[/font]

 

[SheepDog]

Locking caps aren’t just to keep folks from stealing your gasoline!

SD

 

[Jadvisioness]

Apparently there are many vehicles out there that can't use a locking cap due to issues with their "check engine" light coming on because the caps don't ... pressurize or something correctly.

 

[IGBT]

Makes me glad our Transit van has the gas hatch locked by the door (can't open the hatch without first opening the driver side door).  Smart people those Ford guys.

 

[highdesertranger]

people who want to do bad things will find a way.

a plumber has one of those Ford vans with the gas door. well it use to have the gas door one day I noticed it was missing I asked him what happened to it, he said someone pried it off and siphoned his gas. when he found it the door was just laying on the ground with the cap. the door was destroyed.

when people starting using the locking gas caps the thieves would just puncture the rubber hose between the locking cap and the tank basically ruining the rubber hose which on most vehicles cost more to repair than a tank of gas. I bought a truck like that a while back. or on Dodges and other vehicles with the plastic fuel tanks they would just take a hand drill and in about 10 seconds drill a hole right through the tank. that was worth about 10 fill ups worth of damage.

what I a getting at is sometimes the best intentions do more harm then good. if someone wants to do ill they will find a way.

highdesertranger

 

[Qxxx]

Foo, now we need an alarm system on our gas caps, in addition to on our vehicle in general. open the cover door and the Klaxxon horns go off. I once had one of those on my motorcycle, a dual-tone job, and it really got motorist's attention who were trying to pull over on me.

And maybe best not go to outback CA, where the gas is $4.99 a gallon.

 

[highdesertranger]

exactly stay out of areas where stuff like this is a problem. highdesertranger

 

[Dingfelder]

exactly stay out of areas where stuff like this is a problem.  highdesertranger

How would a person know where they are, I wonder.

On another note, sorry about the Grants Pass thing.  There are a lot of meth-heads there -- it's an absolutely huge meth-center -- and some bikers too, and some nearby towns full of few-tooth-lowlifes, and that mix and match can get pretty grotty for the average Joe Citizen.  

I don't think it's possible to acknowledge the existence of random violence, destruction, and chaos -- even without the usual recognizable and perhaps compelling rewards -- without accepting that there is a certain amount of inherent evil inherent in the human spirit.  I find that pretty depressing, and all the moreso that it is not exceedingly rare.

 

[Qxxx]

Well, this is too bad. I stayed in Grants Pass 4 or 5 years ago on a trip and liked the area very much. Are there other areas in Oregon that are bad druggie areas, and should be avoided? One begins to wonder about going anywhere in the US. I wonder if there is a map of drug zones?? Hmmm, ask and it shall be given ...

https://www.dea.gov/high-intensity-drug-trafficking-areas-hidta

 

[RoamerRV428]

wow so happy she has been helped

 

[highdesertranger]

yeah sad to say there are many smuggling corridors in the west. that map shows the counties that are part of the program where the corridors are, that doesn't mean the whole county is bad. also if a county is not part of the program they are not on the map, and that doesn't mean the corridor is not there. the corridors for the most part follow the interstates and major highways. so it's not hard to avoid the bad areas. and the mules usually don't want to cause confrontations, it's the users that you need to watch out for. in the west major corridors are I-5, I-80, I-15, I-10, US 93, US 95, CA 86/111. that is not a complete list and there are more those are ones that I know of. highdesertranger

 

[Qxxx]

It's clear from the map that, at least in the west, the corridors are running between the major cities, as might be expected. Cities are where the big concentrations of druggies live. CA will be high because 40M people live there. Then there is the major corridor up to Portland and Seattle, others to Vegas, Tucson, and Phoenix. El Paso to Albuquerque to Denver. Wherever there is a big city is a serious concentration. Too bad much of it is where we like to boondock, AZ, SoCal, and NM.

 

[LivingOurPeace]

What a horrible thing to do to someone, especially if you know someone's living in there!!
Siphoning gas is one thing - still awful, but that's more about desperation. The sugar thing is just cruelty. There's no REASON for it. I'm so thankful they were able to get initial help, and I hope they're able to handle the damage without too much hardship.

I'm so thankful to see that this community is out there. No one wants to feel isolated and alone in a crisis.

Be safe, folks. <3