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Gas sation owner kills rival owner over gas price cut

How absolutely tragic and shameful!  From Detroit (aka New Fallujah):

Detroit police say a war between two gas stations took a shocking and tragic turn with a station owner shooting his rival who was irate over a gas-price cut.

The shooting happened around 10:45 a.m. at the Marathon station near the corner of Springwells and Fort Street in southwest Detroit.

Investigators say the confrontation started when the owner of the BP station on that corner went to the Marathon station to discuss with its owner why he’d dropped the price for a gallon of unleaded gas to $2.93 per gallon, three cents less than BP.

The discussion quickly escalated into a fight with two more people from the BP station brawling with rivals at Marathon. One man was hit with a baseball bat in the melee. And then, police say, the 51-year-old owner of the Marathon station pulled out a gun and shot the owner of the BP, a 45-year-old father of five children. 

Here’s the “shameful” part:

In a wild post-script, it appears the BP station is taking advantage of the shooting. While police are still swarming the Marathon station, the BP has jacked up its prices. WXYZ’s Bill Proctor reports that as soon as the owner’s body was taken away, workers at BP changed the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09.

“Hey, the boss man just got killed a couple of minutes ago! Whatsay we jack up our gas prices to take advantage of all the morbid publicity we’re about to get?”

I’m wondering how long it will take before the moonbats somehow blame this on Bush and his “illegal war for oil” or whatever.

November 16, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | oil, shameful