Vas Member Username: Vas
Post Number: 925 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:42 am: | |
http://detroitnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/M ETRO/807240372 Total 'lack of control' over city's $7 million gas supply. Listen to this ashat...... "We've known for decades there have been things that need to be corrected," said Brad Dick, deputy director of the city's General Services Department, which oversees the gas stations. "We've known we've had things we've had to address and we are addressing them." -Decades of knowing there's a problem and still no solution. Ashat These people need to find a new career. Any protests or bumper stickers on the criminals in city office? |
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field
Post Number: 753 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:14 am: | |
"Suspicious gas use by some employees, including one city police officer who used the same gas card to get gas seven times in one day for a total of nearly 85 gallons. Some of the fill ups were just minutes apart" Suspicious? Bwaahaha!! Brazen thievery is more like it. |
Dpd_blue Member Username: Dpd_blue
Post Number: 216 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:09 am: | |
Often times the system is malfunctioning and maybe only one persons card will work at a police district. So that person has to use their card to fuel up the whole shift. The system has been a disaster since day one. It's not uncommon to have to drive to 3 or 4 different locations before you can get fuel for your scout. |
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels
Post Number: 1029 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:21 am: | |
Dpd_blue...i feel you in the case of cops cars...it is a necessity...but these other employees not even returning cards |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 2377 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:54 am: | |
During WWII the military had purple dye put into their gas, an MP might ask a private car owner to open his hood and take off the air cleaner so they could look down the throat for the dye. With electronic fuel injection today, not so easy. |
Marlonjb2 Member Username: Marlonjb2
Post Number: 4 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:31 pm: | |
I'd imagine that the same could be done down the fuel filler tube to search for the dye, by something as simple as a cotton swab. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 3019 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 4:11 pm: | |
"Often times the system is malfunctioning and maybe only one persons card will work at a police district. So that person has to use their card to ..." Read the article. The list of massive abusers includes RETIRED and FIRED police who never had their cards revoked. |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 3020 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 4:12 pm: | |
not to pick on the DPD, those are just some examples. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3445 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 5:57 pm: | |
DPDBlue, you mean the precinct ("district") stations don't have gas pumps any more? |
Dpd_blue Member Username: Dpd_blue
Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 - 8:51 am: | |
only HQ and NE still have them. You have to goto the DPS yards to fill up. |