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[–] SmokeyMeadow 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

They ground their country's transportation grid to a halt and burned each other to death to steal about 10 dollars apiece in gasoline. There's no way you could carry enough fuel in the buckets they were using to make this worthwhile. Everyone loves free gas, but if it has a bunch of dirt and twigs in it, I hardly see the point.

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[–] HeavyBrain ago 

Agreed, hunger is the greatest motivator.

But maybe instead of taping into a pipline and burn to a crisp, steal your gas from the gas station or a car, whatever happens to you when you get caught can't be worse than being burned alive.

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[–] Glory_Beckons 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

There were trees all around them. Gasoline is neither needed nor practical to cook dinner with. No matter how poor you are, there are always better options. Certainly better options than breaching a high pressure pipeline to steal gasoline (which evaporates extremely quickly) with buckets.

You make it sound like they were innocent victims of circumstance. Their deaths were as self-inflicted as their poverty, and both symptoms of the same disease: Terminal Stupidity.