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Are you serious? Some guy "accidentally" gassed up his plane on this guys
dime?


"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article , John Larson
wrote:

Well, not just say "Don't forget to turn the pump off after fueling at
self-service pumps" instead of spreading a blanket statement
maintaining that someone stole his gas?

I didn't read the original post as an accusation (especially since
he said "If it was you that accidentally filled up that morning after me
").

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

Yep, you are right it was Matt that said it....

"John Larson" wrote in message
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Are you serious? Some guy "accidentally" gassed up his plane on this guys
dime?

The point Bob was making (I think) is that the original post was certainly
not worded as an accusation.

If he really did wind up with someone else buying gas on his dime, I
certainly agree it's unlikely that person did so unknowingly. But Paul's
original post was worded very kindly, and not at all in an accusatory tone.

In other words, your use of the word "stole" implies that he was accusing
the person of something (like stealing). When in fact he worded his post so
as to allow for the possibility that the person simply accidently wandered
off with his money (so to speak).

As far as who's fault it is, if the gas was indeed stolen, I'd say it was
both Paul's fault, as well as whoever stole the gas. And it was mostly the
fault of the person who stole the gas. That's not to say that Paul should
be absolved of his commitment to pay his credit card company what is owed;
as has been pointed out, if he gets out of paying, the cost will be borne by
entirely innocent parties, which is obviously not fair or right.

But to stand around and imply that Paul got what he deserved for making such
an error (assuming he did make such an error) is unreasonable. If everyone
in the world were honorable and honest, his mistake wouldn't have led to any
loss at all.

Pete

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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"abripl" wrote in message
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Too bad, but the fellow needs to grow and an accept responsibility for
his
actions. Or it that passe in America anymore?

Hey Jay, I didn't start this thread to blame anybody. Just posted it
requesting the guy to contact me to straighten this out. There are some
honest people. Some will even return a wallet full of money to the
owner. Is honesty passe in America?

Not to confuse the issue even more, but I didn't say those two sentences
that you are apparently attributing to me.

I'm not blaming anyone, either. It's just a damned shame of a situation.

No, but you essentially crapped on the CC company for not eating the charge.

"abripl" wrote in message
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Yep, you are right it was Matt that said it....

And my reply was sirected at Jay's take on the CC company, not you.

You neither accepted, nor denied, responsibility.

I did say that your post was rather silly, posting it to a Newsgroup that is
frequented by maybe 100-200 pilots out of the 750,000 active. It sounded
like whining to me.


--
Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Well, he didn't tell rap about it, he was trying to see if someone
would
be honest about it.

Pardon? He posts it in a group of maybe 100 people? Ahhh...

Matt, one thing I discovered at OSH is that this group is HUGE, although
there are only a relative hand-full of regular posters.

I was meeting people all week long from this group, most of whom I had
never
heard of. They all started the conversation with "I'm mostly a lurker,
but..."

A great group of folks, BTW. Not a lemon in the bunch.

Okay...200-300, let's say 500.

Out of how many active pilots?

Interestingly, many tech-support people at my ISP (QWEST) don't know what
Newsgroups/UseNet is.

"John Larson" wrote in message
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Are you serious? Some guy "accidentally" gassed up his plane on this guys
dime?


Oh boy...shades of Eddie Murphy at the beginning of "Trading Places"

No, I've got a better idea: How about posting a note at the FBO where it
happened. Odds of finding the "culprit" are much better on the scale of
thousands-to-one.



"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article , John Larson
wrote:

Well, not just say "Don't forget to turn the pump off after fueling at
self-service pumps" instead of spreading a blanket statement
maintaining that someone stole his gas?

I didn't read the original post as an accusation (especially since
he said "If it was you that accidentally filled up that morning after me
").

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Allen" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Allen" wrote in message
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wallet full of cash and not trying to return it intact to it's
rightful
owner. Responsibility and morality are on the decline everywhere you
look.

And that's something new? Let me give you some insight in to the last
10,000
years...



You are the own asking if responsibility is passe in America now. Same
shoe, other foot.

Pardon? (Evidently grammar and sentence structure is passé, too).


Stupid autocorrect, you know exactly what I meant.

"Allen" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Allen" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Allen" wrote in message
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wallet full of cash and not trying to return it intact to it's
rightful
owner. Responsibility and morality are on the decline everywhere
you
look.

And that's something new? Let me give you some insight in to the last
10,000
years...



You are the own asking if responsibility is passe in America now. Same
shoe, other foot.

Pardon? (Evidently grammar and sentence structure is passé, too).


Stupid autocorrect, you know exactly what I meant.

I said responsibility was passé; you said morality was passé.

And my reply was sirected at Jay's take on the CC company, not you.

Its a public news group where anybody can respond to anybody.

You neither accepted, nor denied, responsibility.

What am I supposed to say? Is this a Martha Stewart case?
Tell me exact words you want me to use to make my confession.

I did say that your post was rather silly, posting it to a Newsgroup that is
frequented by maybe 100-200 pilots out of the 750,000 active. It sounded
like whining to me.

Many people participate in a 1/100,000,000 odds lottery and pay for it
- this is better odds 200/750,000 and free.... but many more lurk w/o
posting. And it brought out some practical suggestions from others (not
your accusations), and whats wrong with promoting honesty. And others
can learn from my incident. That was my first day using self serve.