August 31, 2006: Natural gas thief
 

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I had seen this several times out there, but I thought it wasn't all that interesting. But I never knew what it was, exactly. We've had a lot of images of people with outrageous cargo. But not this kind. A lurker (thanks Tracy!) pointed to the original news item which tells us: this kid is stealing natural gas.

I'd seen this one before too, but it's still cool.

Stealing natural gas this way seems so much better than those Nigerians(?) who were scooping up gasoline with bowls from a sabotaged pipeline.

Is it just me, or is that kid wearing an old-fashioned, "Flintsones-style" caveman outfit ???

I wonder how much natural gas that is? It's not compressed. It that enough to run a burner on a gas stove for 5 minutes? Or is it a month's supply? I have no concept of scale for this one.

The unit of measure is "how big the fireball would be if you melted through the bag with a can of hairspray and a lighter."

How come it looks like that bag has feet under it?

It's a giant termite with a taste for young Asian boys on tricycles.

his mom is probably waiting to cook the families pot of morning noodle soup.

great job!

Or...it's a deformed one of those things from The Prisoner.

I was wondering about that as well.

That just looks like a big old ping pong ball.

How do you know it was stolen natural gas? Maybe he just found it.

Maybe he produced it...don't they eat a lot of legume type foods?

There is like, a tube, or somthing, there . . . hmmmmmm

His name was "Rover", for obvious reasons.