Oregon has this insane law you can't pump your own gas. Good sense is gradually, oh so gradually is coming to Oregon
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Starting this week, Oregon drivers in counties with smaller populations will begin pumping their own gas between the hours of 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
KATU-TV reports that the new law affecting counties with a population less than 40,000 people will take effect Friday.
Gov. Kate Brown signed the bill into law in June.
The goal is to make gas accessible overnight in counties where stations can't afford to support 24-hour staffing.
Impacted counties include:
Baker County
Clatsop County
Crook County
Curry County
Gilliam County
Grant County
Harney County
Hood River County
Jefferson County
Lake County
Malheur County
Morrow County
Sherman County
Tillamook County
Union County
Wallowa County
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Interesting,
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I looked it up, and this regulation (in Oregon and NJ) seems to stem from safety concerns:
Why you can't pump your own gas - Trivia and Fun - BergenCounty.com
I actually stopped a man once who was SMOKING A CIGARETTE at the gas pumps.
Given the carelessness, lack of education and respect for others that is more visible in public these days,
it makes me wonder how we HAVEN'T had more incidents of people blowing up gasoline by lighting up
or dropping a cigarette, not even thinking. It's kind of scary to think of the risk going on, every day.
Just one idiot high on drugs, smoking something and dropping it or hanging a hand out the window,
and gas fumes could ignite.
Having driven through Oregon many times- and enjoyed having service station attendants pump gas for me(really, really easy to get used to), my wife and I always chuckled about what incident made Oregon decide that drivers in Oregon- unlike the rest of the country- could not be trusted to pump their own gas?
Was it a string of accidents involving drivers using lit matches to try to look into their gas tanks to see if it was full?
LOL- I hope Oregon's laws never go away- I just don't want to be there the day one of those crazy Oregon drivers blows up a gas station because they have never learned not to mix matches and gasoline like the rest of us.
Alright, I am going to make you laugh...
Working in Seaside, Oregon one summer I worked at a service station, and pumped gas, but also worked as a night clerk because we were 24 hr service station.
Well my first night I was working I was working with a guy named Dave ( Yes, Dave was there ) and I ask him what was the craziest crap that ever happen during his shift?
He responded nothing ever happen it was so boring.
So I ask him if anyone ever came in acting crazy and stupid, and he responded no. Well about five minutes later a woman came in asking for smokes, and when I told her the price she wanted them for free, and I laughed and told her she had to pay she threw herself on the floor screaming and yelling wanting them for free, and I looked over the counter and kindly told her to either pay or get out, so she paid...
Then a few minutes later I ask Dave if anyone had ever hit those pumps and he said no, and a few minutes later a van speeding directly at the pumps did a crazy turn and missed the pumps and slid right up to the side of them...
I looked at Dave after and was about to ask a question again and he looked at me and told me his gun was in his truck and he was going to shoot me if I ask another question that could come true.
After that night that guy would never work with me again, and declared I was the Devil...
This is a true story and I chuckle when I think about that night because you would scream that it could never happen but it did!!!
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