Miscellaneous

Fill 'er up!

Okay, I feel pretty bad about the downer story from before, especially since the actual lawyers aren't around and you are stuck with me until the weekend. So maybe I can rummage around in my bin of weird-ass news items to make up for it. Ah, here is something...

It seems a gas station clerk in Charleston, W. Va. got caught giving her family and friends a little "employee discount". What the big deal? Well, that discount was from the regular $2.999 to about, say, $0.001.

That's right. A tenth of a penny. PER GALLON. The clerk, her mother, brother, a cousin and two others were arrested through a sting operation after the station owner checked the books. With that kind of ingenious scam, how so ever did they get caught?

Fun fact: there is actually a name for that denomination - the mill (because it is 1/1000 of a dollar).

Full post as published by Quiz Law on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).