Gas was syphoned; Silver Lake

[JbuZZo]

Went to drop the boat in for a bit last night, around 4pm. Beautiful night, with the exception of getting robbed of about 1/4 tank of gas. When I got to the landing there were a couple dudes sitting around a red Tahoe type vehicle with chrome trim bumpin' their crappy rap music with their hood up of the vehicle. Then about 10 min. later there were 2 more vehicles (a white late model Cadillac/ Lincoln ?? and another vehicle, can't remember what it looked like) parked right in the boat landing area. Well, after I loaded up my boat around 6:30ish...I wasn't even out of the drive in to the lake and i looked at my gas gauge...it was UNDER the E symbol. clicked on my counsol digital display that displays temp, trip odometer, etc. Well there's a setting called "DTE" (distance till empty), it was on 0. Meaning i had NO gas in my tank. Nice, jack@sses must of syphoned my gas out of my tank. I only had about a 1/4 tank to start with, so not TOO big of a deal, but i really didn't put 2 and 2 together till a couple miles down the road, and by that time, I was just worried about getting that extra 1 mile to the gas station...nice. There were about 6-8 people total milling around dribbling a basketball right at the landing, fishing rods strewn, unattended on both sides of the concrete landing, etc...

[broken_line]

thats stupid! thats like taking your minnows and the trap! > is your vehicle newer? my old [PoorWordUsage] blazer is a pain in the rear times 10 to get more than a mountian dew bottole out of.

[Bran32]

I bought a locking gas cap last summer for this exact reason! Its just to bad it has to be this way!

[ibfishen1962]

This comes up every year and every where. Locking gas caps are the only deterrent I could come up with that is legal. Vehicle security systems is a more expensive alternative. 12 gauge shotgun loaded with blanks will scare the "you know what out of them", but you obviously have to catch them in the act and could result in you coming face to face with a bad situation.