Kinda called someone a prick....

[Geek King]

No sympathy from me either. I mean, that entire product line is like driving a big middle finger in traffic. Locally, people buy them because they're big and expensive. They have a top speed of about 60mph, and my 1959 Radio-Flyer could out-drag it at the lights.

Worse still, anything in that line other than the original Hummers is built on (I think) Jeep Cheokee frames, so you're just driving a much cheaper car with a different bolted-on body. You can always tell a true Humvee by looking at the underbody. A "real" one will have the underbody protection plate that made them popular with off-road types. H2s and H3s are even worse. Little more than show cars, with nothing of the durability that made the name. Sad really.

[Raveni]

You can always tell a true Humvee by looking at the underbody. A "real" one will have the underbody protection plate that made them popular with off-road types.

I did not know that. I haven't had one try to run me over in years, but I will look for that next time.

[chainedbarista]

yep; these things have never impressed me, not even when i drove the real thing. i preferred my forklift...one seat, no passengers.

[Brojekk]

SC: Well im pumping my gas now so what you gunna do about it?

For starters....we're not going to turn your pump on.

[wolfie]

Luck would have it that some guy in an H2 drove in the exit, almost ran me over, and cut off the whole line to get to a pump. I call the officers over to talk to this guy, and they make him drive around to the back of the line. His exxcuse: "I only get 6 miles per gallon, so I'll run out of gas if I wait in that line".

6 MPG in an H2???? I average around 6 MPG in the Peterbilt of Natural Selection (with a 53 foot trailer).

Worse still, anything in that line other than the original Hummers is built on (I think) Jeep Cheokee frames, so you're just driving a much cheaper car with a different bolted-on body.

Actually, they're built on Suburban frames. Hummer was a division of GM, while Jeep is a division of Chrysler.

[poofy_puff]

We where all positioned on the far side of the pumps so it wasnt totally doable. One can only wish

I don't understand. You have NO way of shutting off the pumps from inside the building? They aren't talking about reaching over to the actual PUMP where the SC's car was parked. They're talking about behind the register inside, there's usually a bunch of switches that can manually over-ride the POS system on the pump itself. It's for emergencies (like if someone's smoking a cigarette or whatever) and unexpected problems such as this one. I don't know what the laws are in Canada, but in the US, I believe these "kill-switches" are required by law. I'd be willing to bet you DO have them at the place you work, and the employees should be trained in how to USE them.

[Mikkel]

Unfortunately all of us where helping the car being pushed so we had no chance to shut off the pump and tell him to line up or he wasn't getting service.

You have NO way of shutting off the pumps from inside the building?

I think the problem was that they all were outside, helping pushing dead cars.

[Lace Neil Singer]

We had someone like that; she saw the massive queue of cars stretching down the road and thought it would be a brilliant idea to mount the pavement and drive over the ramp into the petrol station to grab a free pump. Never mind the fact that she nearly hit a girl pushing a buggy, or that there were dozens of people waiting in line; she felt that her needs were worth more than theirs.

We refused to switch on the pump and she came flying into the petrol station kiosk to bitch. My manager gave her a right bollocking and told her to wait her turn, cuz we weren't going to serve her after what she did. She swore and bitched, then turned round and stormed out. Bitch then drove out and down the road. Good riddance.