My brother has a little country steakhouse in my home town. They are only open weekends. During the week no one is there and the place is in the middle of nowhere. As expected someone eventually tried to break in. They've seen pry marks on the door before. This time they caught the guy. My father happened to be driving by and saw a pickup behind the building that shouldn't have been there. Long story short it was a down-and-out loser sort from a town about 60 miles away. He was there to score some free hooch.
He drove there in a ratty old borked-out pickup that might be getting six or seven miles per gallon, not to mention a couple quarts of oil it probably burned or drooled out all over the road. At three bucks a gallon that's 25-30 bucks worth of fuel. One way.
When they finally got a straight story out of him turns out he had only intended to get a couple bottles of whiskey and a case or two of beer. According to Dad, that's probably all his truck would have held given all the other crap stack in, on, and over it. From what they found in his truck he wasn't even getting the good stuff, either. Just the generic cheapo well mixers and Natural Lite beer. The booze could be had retail for less than $10 a bottle and the beer would have been $18 a 30-pack.
Sad. They guy probably spent fifty or sixty bucks on fuel to steal less than he could've bought, with the same money, at the package store a mile from his own home. And he wouldn't have risked jail time in the process.
Brad
