A 70-year-old retired man began to wonder why the fuel gauge in his pickup kept falling, even though he hardly drove the truck at all. He filled up at a petrol station and had the vehicle checked at an auto shop, but no leak was found, and he began to suspect that someone was taking the fuel. His neighbour across the street had earlier borrowed his jerry can and shown little gratitude, and the neighbour’s attitude, as the retired man tells it, was that the truck barely got used anyway. It was his granddaughter who suggested a camera, and he fitted a doorbell camera over the driveway to see what was happening at night.<\/p>\n
The footage, he says, showed the neighbour coming up the driveway at about two in the morning with a hose, siphoning petrol from the truck, and a second night, a little after two, the camera alerted him again. He says he watched the footage frame by frame and was completely sure it was the neighbour. He thought about calling the police and talked it over with a friend, but decided, for the moment, not to \u2014 and instead confronted the neighbour directly, showing him printouts of the camera pictures and asking whether he had been siphoning gas out of the truck.<\/p>\n
Then came the trap. He and his granddaughter left a gift box marked “Vintage tools” on the porch, filled with blue-dye paste and a skunk-stink spray \u2014 harmless, they say, but designed to stain and smell. At 6:45 the next morning, the neighbour took the box, and the dye burst over his face, hands and clothes as the spray went off. Neighbours came out to look, and the neighbour’s wife appeared in a bathrobe, shouting that there were pictures of him doing it at two in the morning. He was left blue, smelling and embarrassed, and neighbours later called him “the blue guy” \u2014 in September, he was still wearing long sleeves. Later, the neighbour returned a full red gas can and left an envelope with $220 and an apology note, and his young daughter added a crayon note of her own, saying sorry her dad was blue.<\/p>\n
The narrator states plainly that he never called the police and pressed no charges \u2014 there was no report, no ticket and no fine. The whole story is told as his own account, with no dates, no town and no outside confirmation anywhere on the page, so it is presented here as his version of events, not as verified news. He ends by saying he now keeps things locked and is more careful, and that neighbours are supposed to share \u2014 the lesson, in his telling, being a private, public-shaming revenge rather than a legal one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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