{"id":673,"date":"2008-06-03T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2008-06-03T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T19:57:08","slug":"responsible-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/responsible-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Reporting?&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I don&#8217;t think so!&#8230;..  <\/strong>Here&#8217;s a news story that ran on local TV over the past week that should have never been broadcast&#8230;&#8230;  <strong>&#8220;Due to the high cost of fuel, thieves are now drilling holes in the bottoms of gas tanks with cordless drills in order to steal gas&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;..  Why do I think this is <strong>Irresponsible Reporting<\/strong>?&#8230;.  <strong>#1<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Unless you have a garage or plan to sleep in your vehicle, there&#8217;s not a lot you can do to prevent it<\/em>&#8230;..  <strong>#2<\/strong> &#8211; <em>They just gave every <strong>yo-yo<\/strong> in the world the knowledge of a very quick, although very dangerous, way to steal gas, not to mention the huge repair bill the owner faces to repair\/replace the damaged tank<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  I mean, if they busted a locking gas lid and\/or a gas cap and stole the gas, you could at least drive the vehicle after the fact&#8230;..  I wonder if the automotive repair industry has anything to do with this?&#8230;..  Maybe they want their cut of the billions of profit dollars the oil industry is raking in&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So-o-o, get ya a cordless drill and low profile pan and hit the local unguarded apartment complex and get ya a free fill-up or two &#8211; if you don&#8217;t blow yourself up in the process&#8230;..  The media forgot to mention the dangers of drilling into a gas filled tank and free flowing gas into a pan&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><em>To give out information like this that does more damage than good is totally irresponsible<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;  I really think something should be done about the media doing stupid things like this&#8230;&#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think so!&#8230;.. Here&#8217;s a news story that ran on local TV over the past week that should have never been broadcast&#8230;&#8230; &#8220;Due to the high cost of fuel, thieves are now drilling holes in the bottoms of gas tanks with cordless drills in order to steal gas&#8221;&#8230;.. Why do I think this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,20,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}