[Jeff Higgins]

He sounds like a good, honest guy who wasn't out for any kind of "sting" or anything. I'm all for taking a guy at his word, and guys giving each other a break. Too bad we have had to become so paranoid about that.

A riding buddy and I were in the middle of B.F. nowhere in central Oregon last summer. Oregon law prohibits anyone pumping their own gas, but service station attendants typically allow motorcyclists to pump their own. Shouldn't be a big deal, right? So anyway, we pull in for gas, kind of hang out for a minute waiting for the attendant, see he is pretty busy with a couple of cars, so I put my card in and lift the handle. He wasted no time running over to us, hollaring at me to stop...

Turns out three guys had come through on bikes just recently. Per his usual practice, he was going to let them fill their own bikes. Turns out one was a gas pump enforcement agent, or whatever, and this jerk cited the station. Unbelievable.

There is a silver lining, however. The pin head started throwing his weight around before anyone had actually filled their tanks. Nearest gas was something like 70-80 miles in the direction they were headed, and at least that far back in the direction they had come. So the guy refused to fill them up. Shut the pumps off and everything. The three said "hey, no problem ass hole, we can make the next town". Little did they know, our intrepid gas station owner knew the owner of the only station in the next town.. heh heh heh... and the next town past that was another 50-60 miles or so, at least.

The owner/attendant was still wondering where those guys spent the night...