Leads? Yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
They probably wouldn't even show up for this. Would probably just tell you to attach the footage to the police report you can file on their website. Ask me how I know.
Do, do you think cops are gonna pull cell phone data over this? Like had this not been recored, you think cops gonna do some sort of 'investigation' or something?
And in a world where surveillance, security, dash cams, and flock cameras are everywhere, and everyone and their uncle has a cell phone with a camera, a real genius this guy is.
And the amount of sugar that actually made it in the tank is completely negligible. At worst they're going to have change the fuel filter a little earlier.
Most Fords don't even have a cap. They have a spring loaded check valve you just push the nozzle past. I doubt more than half a cup is in any part of that tank
I doubt any of it got in. If he doesn’t have the funnel or something else to open the check valve (which it doesn’t seem like he did) it’s all just sitting in the outer area.
Yup. Had a chick try that to my car in college. Came out to a huge pile of sugar on the ground. Carefully cleaned around the filler neck, then pushed my finger past the flap; couldn't feel anything inside the filler neck. Just to be safe I got underneath and removed the filler neck from the tank - not a single sugar granule had made it past the flap at the top.
I think the way it spreading out when falling is misleading. If you look at the pile on the ground once it all falls it doesn’t seem unlikely by volume.
Also if that’s a 32oz tumbler, 32oz is a LOT of sugar lol
I mean they took prints when my house was broken in to and only my x box got stolen back in the day. They didn’t do anything with them and they left the fingerprint ink dust stuff all over the place, but they did take prints 🤷
Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They've got us working in shifts!
Exactly. My car was broken into and I had some personal information and other items stolen from my glove box and center console so I went to the police station to file a report and they just told me to keep an eye on my credit score in case my identity gets stolen. They didn’t want to file a report. I left feeling baffled at their response. I’ve always stood up for the police but that pissed me off and changed my perspective a bit. These assholes literally do not want to help or do anything. At least in my city
Tell the cop that his eyes were dilated and he might have had something to drink and you smelled something funny and they'll go to the ends of the earth to have a word with them.
This took place in SC. It falls under malicious injury to personal (or real) property. If damages are under $2,000 then it’s a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail and fines. If the damages total above $2,000 but less than $10,000 then it’s a felony punishable by 5 years in prison. Above $10,000 can get you 10 years.
That I can’t tell you. Best case scenario, the owner/driver never tries cranking the car up, but still has to get it towed, then “diagnosed”. I’m guessing that the more intensive the labor, the higher the cost. Not all setups are as easy to reach and disassemble than others. Then there’s also the cost of the parts. In today’s market foreign made parts might easily push the cost to felony level.
I was on an IT contract updating computers in NC public schools and had my stereo stolen out of my car. The cops took my statement, asked for a list of all the people I had had in the car with me recently, and took prints. That cheap ass Best Buy stereo was worth WAY less than the damage this guy just caused.
If they didn't take prints for this the only reason would be that they have the video and they don't need them. It doesn't matter if it is just a misdemeanor. The insurance company is still going to file a civil suit on top of his criminal penalties and garnish his wages until he pays back whatever they had to spend to fix this car.
My car got broken into, broken window, probably about $300 worth of electronics and CD's (back early 00's). The cop that showed up acted like I ruined his night by wasting his time with this stupid bullshit. Never heard a single word back.
I actually got a surprising amount of help from the cops over a stolen stereo once as well. (No finger prints required)
In my case, I got rear-ended and my truck wasn't drivable so it got towed to a wrecking yard (was pretty obvious it was totaled immediately)
After getting a payout quote from insurance I decided I wanted the truck back and I would just part it out myself because it was a truck with somewhat of a cult following and I had some more desirable options on mine, as well as desirable after market parts that were still good. It also had a pretty nice sound system in it and when I received it at my house, all the speakers and amps were gone, and the head unit was the wrong one that was just thrown in at the last minute (not even wired up).
I called the towing company demanding answers and they tried to just blow me off. I said I'll be there in an hour with a police officer. I was still young and naive then and I thought this was a realistic possibility. They blew me off again.
I called their bluff, and a cop actually showed up to be there when I confronted them! The towing company immediately capitulated and offered me cash on the spot. I took it. The cop asked, "are we done here?" I said yep, and that was that.
I only learned later how lucky I was. As I've gotten older and dealt with towing companies and cops a few more times unfortunately, I've come to believe that many cops are in the pockets of towing companies. Maybe I just got lucky and this was a rookie cop, or maybe he had some other beef with this particular towing company, but his presence alone forced their hand.
It's really going to depend on the cop you get, some just don't give a shit even if you hand them the case on a silver platter. A while ago one of my coworkers stole my wallet, we had her on camera and since she worked there we obviously had her name, address etc and the police just filed a report and called it a day. Didn't even get my shit back. This was a middle-class suburb too so it's not like they were busy chasing murderers or whatever
My brother's house was broken into and they stole money, guns, prescription drugs, laptops, and they didn't dust for fingerprints. They even clearly went in through a window and left it open.
Cops took down the serial numbers on the guns and left. Nothing else.
I’ve never vandalized a car, but as an ex juvenile delinquent, this is worse than beginner work.
The big thing that sticks out to me is that the parking space next to the car he vandalized is available. The obviously play would be to park your car in that spot to concele what you’re doing. Instead, this jackass made the least conspicuous choice for every decision. I doubt he even got sugar in the tank. He should’ve used a funnel.
As a fellow juvenile delinquent he was an amateur because it’s smarter to fill a gas jug with a sugar syrup made with sugar and water till it’s thick but pourable
As a fellow fellow juvenile delinquent, it’s obvious this is a late 10’s ford which has the no-gas-cap design (I’m a delinquent not a car expert). That sugar is all over the pavement because there’s a built in cap that is pressed down by the gas nozzle. This guy is a nerd.
Having looked at the "special" funnel you "need", I'd love to hear how a narrower funnel wouldn't work, if all it's doing is pushing a flap out of the way. I understand there's usually a cross block further down to prevent siphon hoses.
Since sugar does not dissolve in gasoline, the worst it can do is clog the screen on the pump in the tank. That's it. If it somehow makes it past that it will be stopped in your fuel filter, and we'll clog it up pretty fast, but that's an easy change.
There is a good youtube vid of this russian mechanic who dumps a whole 2 liter of soda in his gas tank and then drives around until the car stops and then fixes it.
I can't remember the details but the fix wasn't too bad
Don't know if it's the same guy, but my friend showed me a guy who puts absurd shit into the cars as oil or fuel and sees how long he can make em run. If I remember right, eggnog is surprisingly a great engine lubricant
Yep, my car is a Ford Escape and it has a tamper-proof cover on the gas tank that can only be opened by newer fuel pumps (or the special funnel attachment that is included with the vehicle). I’ve even encountered older fuel pumps that I couldn’t use to pump gas into my car because of the trapdoor thingy.
Speaking of sugar in the tank…. My dad told me that in the 1970s a jerk kid siphoned gas out of my grandad’s farm truck. After the 2nd time, grandpa put sugar into his own tank… and waited. The dumb kid came up to him one day and said “ You ruined my engine!!!” lol.
Grandpa dropped and drained his tank. Problem solved.
It's stupid o'clock petrol prices in Australia. The neighbour syphoned my 4wd for fuel and put it in his hatchback (I seen it on my cameras). My 4wd is a diesel running 30/70 mix of used oils and his car is a modern petrol. It didn't have a good time apparently because i seen it stranded on the side of road about 5km from home where it's currently remained for 2 weeks.
Any modern ford has a capless system. There’s the initial door the pump pushes past, and a secondary door to make siphoning gas harder 4-6 inches down. Even to fill up with a gas can requires a special funnel, which comes with the vehicle.
If that secondary door is not open any liquid or solid that goes in will not make it to the tank, and liquids usually end up on the ground
Good news is, with an escape, they have a weird filler neck that needs to be opened with the tube in the trunk, therefore little of any sugar got into the tank
In the era of cameras everywhere.. how does one hypothetically do random actions like this. You cant drive your car one block over and walk there... camera will tie you to it. You cant borrow a buddies car and wear a hoodie, you cant rent a car, you could use a bike.
I assume the folks in the UK with cameras everywhere have thought of this more than I have.
We may have cameras everywhere, but fortunately(or unfortunately depending who you ask) we simply dont have the man power in our legal system to prosecute everything. Even in these days dummies like him can get away with things like this because the courts are too busy dealing with actual monsters of society.
Cops don't even test rape kits in a timely fashion to catch predators. They mostly rely on the public to solve the cases for them (and criminals mostly catch themselves, because they're idiots, otherwise they wouldn't be criminals).
If they drop the tank and drained everything, wouldn’t it be OK? Wouldn’t they really only have problems if they started it up and let it run through the system?
As long as it doesn't start it's exactly as you described sugar doesn't dissolve it settles and is actually preety easy to flush it's when it starts and goes through the injectors when your fucked it's still not a cheap fix and is a huge ass hole move
Honest question, not trying to be any type of way. But, wouldn’t the, at least two, filters between the tank and the injectors help to mitigate this? Isn’t there typically a filter on the fuel pickup at the pump and an inline fuel filter somewhere before the actual injection? Actually I know that the vehicle has a fuel filter, they all do.
It's a great question doesn't hurt to be curious and yah you are right the filters help immensely but no filter is perfect depending on the age of the car some of the mesh filters can get bigger holes. What mainly happens is the sugar gets stored up as you drive like a snow globe and eventually covers all the filters starving the fuel system. My fuel injector was more like worst case scenario that's not a point of no return but usually if it gets to the injectors the cost of repair isn't worth it for age of the car.
Hope that kinda better explains my initial comment lol.
Filled to the brim, but newer Ford vehicles have a trip mechanism to prevent this exact thing (not that it's dangerous even). There's 2 compartments to open with a gas nozzle to refuel. Zero sugar got into that tank. And sugar won't even do anything, according to the other comments.
Fingerprints on the cup he left, license plate, car make, got everything. He's the dumbest ever. The car owner already knows who did it. That was personal.
The best part is that it's near impossible without a funnel to get anything into the tank this way with the Ford Capless system that vehicle has. That person is going to wonder why there's sugar everywhere behind the fuel door but the car will be fine.
For the capless fuel fillers, you need the special funnel that comes with the car in order to insert anything into it that’s not a fuel dispenser. That dude just wasted a whole bag of sugar for nothing.
That’s a Ford Escape, those have a proprietary spring-loaded cover on the gas tank that can only be opened with a fuel pump nozzle or a special funnel attachment. I’ve even encountered older fuel pumps that couldn’t open the tank cover. None of that sugar actually went into the gas tank.
All the guy had to do was get an actual red gas can and fill it with sugar water or something. Then no one would have thought him suspicious enough to film.
What a dumbass. You get an actual gas container. You mix the sugar with water. That way when you're pooring it in nobody even thinks twice. It also goes in cleaner so there's not a pile of sugar next to it.
Also just do the water it fucks up enough shit and you don't need to buy sugar.
A fun fact about fords is that for more than a decade they’ve had “capless” fill necks. It means there’s no cap you have to unscrew, instead, there’s a metal tab with a strong spring that seals the fill neck and it has to be pushed out of the way with the gas nozzle or a specific funnel they come with. They aren’t just open to the air.
All that to say, this dummy likely didn’t get any of the sugar(?) in the gas tank thanks to that and it’ll just need to be blown/cleaned out of the fill neck area before they put gas in next time.
If I'm remembering correctly, on an episode of Myth Busters, they took a working engine, split a gas tank in half, and put a clear top on it so they could see what the sugar did once it got into the tank. The engine ran fine. After they cleaned everything out, they then put a vety small amount of bleach into the gas, and the engine locked down almost immediately lol!
Let’s assume that some contaminants got in. If it’s sugar, it doesn’t dissolve in gasoline so it’s just going to sit in the bottom. If it’s sand, same thing. The fuel pump pickup has a filter that will prevent anything getting into the fuel system and more filters downstream. The effort may have been ok but this person doesn’t know how a car works and relied on an old wives’ tale
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u/picofemto 1d ago
What a genius. Broad daylight, with his own vehicle.