I once had the fun experience of having to run into the station, tell them three times that a woman just drove off with the nozzle in her car, and that it didn't shut off and was spraying gallon after gallon of gas in a ten-foot-radius cone from the overhead hookup for the hose. They eventually went into the back room and turned the pump off, but I'd guess that close to 20 gallons had sprayed out by then. My mom and I blocked off the area with garbage cans from near the pumps since they apparently didn't care enough to go out and do it themselves.
I probably should've called the fire department about the hazardous spill, but I was dizzy from the gas fumes.
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Originally Posted by Lucifer
I don't know where you bought your gas, but in Canada (unlike in the states it seems), gas hoses come with that big rubber disc in front of the handle to prevent that happening. If I pull into a gas station and the pumps don't have that extra feature, I pull back out on the road and keep going.
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It is mandatory for them to use vapor-recovery systems, but that's a completely different mechanism from what's being discussed here.