Oregon allows limited self service gas ... people lose their s--t.

[Monky]

Wait.. so this is a real thing.. you can't pump your own gas in Oregon?

...thank god they're in range of North Korean nukes..

[Martinjmpr]

New Jersey, too.

[.455_Hunter]

I rolled into a small Oregon costal town with the family rental car and needed gas. I got out, did my thing, and was pumping gas when the attendant came running out all apoplectic. It has to be about the stupidest law on the books anywhere.

[Martinjmpr]

OMG, if you have the time you have to go over to the KTVL CBS 10 Facebook page.

People are posting "gas pumping" comments in every article.

Examples: The article entitled "Russian army demonstrates latest weapon: Cuddly puppies. The Russian Armed Forces has unveiled its latest cutting-edge weapon in a New Year greetings video: cuddly puppies."

Comment:

They won't be cute when they become targets for transients because their owners are too busy being distracted from having to pump their own gas.

Article entitled: "Vandals target local neighborhood mulitple times"


Comment:

If the fucktards where not out pumping their own gas they could be watching over their Plastic Walmart chairs.

Article entitled: "New Oregon workplace, consumer protection laws in effect as of January 1"


Comment:

Will these laws protect the fine people of the great state of Oregon from the horrific side effects of pumping their own gas? I pumped gas once, my wife packed up the kids and left me. She couldn't imagine being married to a man who would stoop so low as to pump his own gas. Also I caught Chlamydia from a gas pump back in 1998. #PrayForOregon #OregonStrong

Article entitled: "Caught on camera: Texas police officer nearly hit by sliding car"

Comment:

He later went on to pump a full 15 gallons of gas. Incident free.

It's killing me.....

[Skip]

In case you are wondering who in their right mind could oppose this law, here are some representative samples: WARNING: SPEW ALERT!

You all who want to pump your own gas had no business moving to Oregon. Go back to California. We were doing fine here without you.

I. Can't. Even.

[StagLefty]

OMG the comments are hilarious. Made my day !!!

[Gman]

I lived in Oregon when they tried to get the law changed back in the '80s. You wouldn't believe the propaganda commercials. A woman pumping gas in a dress while it's raining and the filler backs up on her.

Having moved there from TX where we pumped our own gas, it was bizarre. One of the arguments that they made is that Oregon had one of the lowest gas prices in the country at the time. Not sure how that's related.

My uncles would come up to visit from California and they would naturally start pumping their own gas, only to have someone running from the station office waving their arms and yelling "You can't do that! You can't do that!" Really? I'm quite capable.

[wctriumph]

I think the self serve gas stations are the best thing that ever happened, especially to girl watchers.

I know: sexist attitude but I was 17 when they started doing that in a limited way after the first gas shortage.

[Ronin13]

Wait.. so this is a real thing.. you can't pump your own gas in Oregon?

...thank god they're in range of North Korean nukes..

I thought the same thing when I heard about this. I thought it was satire until I realized that actual news organizations were posting this story. Coming back from being stationed in Northern NY, I stopped for gas in Gary, IN, didn't realize it until I went in to get something to drink that I may have stopped in a not so great part of town (I was the only white person within 10 miles). I filled up with no incident. If a whiteboy can get gas in the hood, these whiny dumbnuts can pump their own in Oregon.

[crays]

Sounds to me like the issue they need to be focusing on is the problem with the unruly transient population, and not how their fuel get delivered to their vehicles.

But try telling them that...