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SALT LAKE CITY — As gasoline prices soar, some thieves have resorted to stealing gas in a very dangerous way. One Salt Lake City business has been victimized multiple times. The business manager is fed up, and now the thief has scars for his trouble.
A truck parked outside Summit Fire and Protection had already had its catalytic converter stolen and the gasoline siphoned out when another thief showed up Saturday, in broad daylight, and tried to steal the gas. But he paid a price for the costly crime he committed.
"Some people try to take the easy way out of everything," said branch manager Travis Mills, showing surveillance video of the theft in progress.
Not long after 10 a.m. Saturday, Mills was notified about a gas theft from one of the trucks that also caught fire.
"The guy tried to siphon gas out of it and he wasn't getting the siphon to work," Mills said. "So he decided to drill the gas tank, and that's when he caught on fire."