{"id":280576,"date":"2010-02-04T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001462"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:00:36","slug":"do-not-drive-your-truck-into-a-gas-station-instead-of-prepaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280576","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Drive Your Truck Into A Gas Station Instead Of Prepaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/344226429_3e3aa30f91_m-thumb-240x180-36668.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>A man in Alabama has been charged with attempted murder and resisting arrest after allegedly driving his truck into a gas station. According to Jefferson County police, the suspect was angry that the only pump available was pre-pay only.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy] Christian said the service station had a pre-pay only system and Mayes&#8217;s pump had not been turned on because he hadn&#8217;t paid yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are going to die and go to hell,&#8221; the chief deputy quoted Mayes as telling the store clerk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think that prepay pumps were <em>that<\/em> hard to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2010\/02\/03\/Suspect-angered-by-pre-pay-gas-pump\/UPI-41951265234635\/\">Suspect angered by pre-pay gas pump<\/a> [UPI] <em>(Thanks, GitEmSteveDave!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Alabama has been charged with attempted murder and resisting arrest after allegedly driving his truck into a gas station. According to Jefferson County police, the suspect was angry that the only pump available was pre-pay only. [Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy] Christian said the service station had a pre-pay only system and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}