I've been using a debit card since the Dubya administration and I have never had someone use my card after I ate at a restaurant. I assume you live in a big metro area?

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pixl97 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In Texas about a decade ago there was a criminal enterprise out of Houston that was putting swimmers on gas station pumps all over the state. Little towns, big towns, country gas stations. My now wife got hit that way.

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happyopossum 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Swimming at a gas station pump would be uncomfortably lethal.

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dghlsakjg 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder how well you would have to be able to swim to overcome the density/buoyancy difference if swimming in a pool of gasoline?

	▲	swiftcoder 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a pretty drastic density difference. I think an Olympic swimmer would have a hard time staying above the surface.

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bregma 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gasoline fight!

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kstrauser 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am, but some of these events were when I was traveling through smaller Midwest towns. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to it.

In any case, it hasn't happened again since I started using tap to pay whenever possible.