{"id":1577,"date":"2008-02-08T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:27:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:27:27","slug":"an-issue-of-accountability-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"an issue of accountability…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years er so ago a young man that was working as a gas jockey in British Columbia was dragged to his death when he chose to chase after a thief that was exiting the gas station he worked at without paying for a little over $12.00 worth of gas…a “gas n dash.” A horrible incident, but really….why would anyone chase after a vehicle for $12.00? Especially as it’s against the law in this country to take till shortages from one’s paycheck?<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t you think that he should have written down the license number and make and model of the vehicle and called the police instead? Might have saved his life….<\/p>\n

As a result of lobbying by his parents, the province of BC has passed a provincial law (Grant’s Law) that states that all customers purchasing gas or petrol products in the province must pre-pay or they can not have the product….it went into effect Feb 1.<\/p>\n

sounds simple enough?<\/p>\n

Tonight I stopped at my local Co-op gas station to get gas\u2026.<\/p>\n

In order to purchase gas with your debit card you must hand your debit card to a gas station employee who puts it in his wallet. If he is pumping the gas for you – you have to go inside while you wait for him to finish…but he’s got your card. So anything you want to purchase as well as the gas has to wait….<\/p>\n

After waiting for 10 er so minutes for the seemingly 7 year old kid to pump the gas, he comes back in and wanders into the back room…so I wait a minute er two more and the kid comes out from the back wearing his street clothes with his ball cap on and his back pack on carrying his skate board….<\/p>\n

“uhhhhhm hello?”<\/p>\n

he says “ya?”<\/p>\n

“can I have my debit card?”<\/p>\n

“holy crap! I forgot” he says…..<\/p>\n

so we go over to the cash and he hands my card to a seemingly 9 year old wearing an assistant manager nametag and proceeds to tell him all about how much gas, which pump, how he almost headed home with my card…etc<\/p>\n

I figure he’s accountable…he’s admitted to his mistake so he’s offa the hook…<\/p>\n

I look at the 9 yr old and I says to him…”betcha this is a pain in the ass”<\/p>\n

he replies..”you have noooooo idea”<\/p>\n

I said…”so all the newspapers are talking about how much the gas stations and patrons love it”<\/p>\n

he says…”they’ll be talking outta the other side of their mouths once everyone buys fast pay pumps and stops going to their station”<\/p>\n

“Oh” says I, “will you guys be getting fast pay?”<\/p>\n

to which he replies….”well ya…but it will take longer and cost way more than the already thru the roof cost cos we have to have special pumps so our co-operative members can enter their membership numbers….”<\/p>\n

\u201chow much is way more?\u201d I ask<\/p>\n

\u201c500K to do all our pumps\u201d he says \u201cand now we have to have 2 people on all the time too so wages are gonna cost the company more\u201d<\/p>\n

in the end it took me a full 25 minutes to get my gas, pay for it and get back to my car….<\/p>\n

I get the the parents of the young man that was killed in 2005 are devastated by his loss. But I can’t help but wonder why I am being inconvenienced because they didn’t teach that young man that his life was worth more than $12.00.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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