Agreed , let’s be a bit fair here. The story as easily can be “police devoted a ton of resources to a statewide search”, “divers , with special purpose sonar, only search the water, starting with the closest water, and get lucky”.

Agreed. I think “missing search...” is fine for private citizens to get involved in, but “investigation ....” is just not going to work.  

I wonder if location would be a predictor variable?

Nice! I’d cut the original part where I was going to give you an out for the gas stations far away from any metro - my comment was getting too long. Agree, we won’t brand you a monster when you are the only car at the pump and there are plenty of pumps open.

If i am road tripping and/or towing my gas station stops are often 10-20 minutes

Custom fitted all season floormats (e.g., WeatherTech)

They seem to be defining ‘luxury’ by brand, e.g. anything Mercedes is luxury. Acura = luxury, Honda = not luxury.

Let me help on the hotel vs. fast food restaurant debate:

Wow, what’s your problem?

Wait a minute... that sure sounds like you are going to the King of Prussia one - at 202 and Henderson intersection? Truly a mess.  

My question is how shitty is Honduran airport security that people can just wander onto the runways and make it into boarding aircraft?

Why would you assume the incident started with the start of the video? Is that dirt bike even allowed on the street? Even it it was, I’m going to guess there aren’t drivers licenses for 13 yr olds, even in florida. By definition he was driving recklessly to get to the gas station in the first place.

This is patently false based on the video in the article. The kid was stationary at a gas pump when the cop saw him and pulled in.

So true, well played.

It’s all owned and maintained by the gasoline distributor

and rather than all of us just bs-ing on the requirements here, let’s look at what is required:

Agreed. Panic and/or lack of brain cells - want to bet the owner did something stupid - like padlocked access to the breakers...  

So I agreed with your points that safety systems don’t need to be perfect to be valuable elsewhere, but Doug outlined a clear set of actions that could have been pursued to mitigate the leak. I’d agree with his #1,3. I wouldn’t blame the engineer (#4), for the reason that I’m sure the installation was designed with…

You assuming the average driver can parallel park for this one off situation to even occur is cute.

I’m broadly in line with your take.