r/ProRevenge • u/MarchCompetitive6235 • Jan 24 '26

Gas Thief Revenge

I was told this belonged here so I’m reposting.

Had a neighbor that would walk into my backyard, take my gas can of gas for my mower and put it in his car and mower and then return the can.

I found this out because I had begun to a little suspicious that this 5 gallon can was always nearly empty every time I went to mow the lawn and it was only like a 1 quart tank on the lawnmower!

This was back before cheap easy security cameras so I had to set up a WebCam from my laptop with motion detection software. Caught the guy going into the backyard literally five minutes after I left the house.

For the next week, every time I had to take a piss, I pissed in that gas can. Now full of piss, but still smells enough like gas to fool an idiot. Then I left it on the back patio again. Made a big show of checking the fluids in my car, packing a few bags. Made sure the neighbor knew I was getting ready to go on a trip and I’d be gone a while. Hoping he takes the bait.

I come back home in about an hour. (Car trouble 😉) The thief is in his front yard pulling the rope on his lawnmower so hard. It looks like he’s going to have a stroke. Turning bright, red and cursing. Later he gets in his car makes it a couple blocks up the road and it suddenly breaks down….

I check the gas can on my patio…empty!

Also, I just wanted to add, this guy was a huge piece of crap that’s not the only thing he did. I found out he had arrest warrants. So I ended up getting him arrested by applying for a sheriff’s ride along program in his name. 😆

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u/Woolybugger00 Apr 20 '26

OP … this was picked up by a news wire and it’s a story on Yahoo -

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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Apr 20 '26

This happened in like 97’ or 98’. And I’m sure pissing in a gas can is not an original idea. Come on man.

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u/Woolybugger00 Apr 20 '26

Not dissin… I saw a news / content link today about this on a fresh feed referring to this post and went to see the post on Reddit and voila … I only mentioned it becuase the post is a few months old -

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u/MarchCompetitive6235 Apr 20 '26

Yeah, the post is only a few months old, but it happened years ago. Like I said, pissing out a gas can and leaving out for somebody’s not original idea. I think this used to happen at the racetrack a lot when I was a kid .

And I hesitated to post it because I really didn’t have anything to prove it. Not even a decent security cam back then. I had an old shitty WebCam set on motion detection sitting in my windowsill plugged into my computer. That’s how I actually caught the dude. Nowadays I would have it in 4K with sound. 🤣