Some local hero around here has been stabbing ball point pens into the speakers on them.
Theyre smart to that already, most of the ad pumps I’ve run into have speakers hidden inside the housing that you can’t access anymore, and the “bottom left button on the screen mutes the ad” trick is disabled.
At this stage I just boycott those stations, leave a 2 star review on Google and deal with paying an extra 15c a gallon a couple blocks away.
Edit: Jesus Christ y’all are way too quick to jump straight to felony vandalism over fucking advertisements
Why not walk on some railroad tracks until you find a railroad spike lying around?
Then you could take that spike and stab the screen. 8 screens taken out, and the gas station can’t pump gas anymore. You’d think they get the message before they get to the 8th. If not? Oh well. Their loss.
And if the train gets you first, then the pain will be no more…
just set the gas stations on fire huehue
Two stars? That’s generous
Why not just build your own dirty nuke from parts you got on the dark web and use it to wipe the city block containing the offending gas station off the map completely?
EDIT: Sorry, got to this discussion a little late
HELL YA BROTHER
Drawing of a man holding sign that reads “I require alt text” with a hat reading “alt text hat” and a shirt reading “alt text shirt”.
I don’t like making my civil disobedience posts too easy for government web crawlers to understand. There are ways to discretely hurt electronics without hurting people or risk a fire.
I mean, I get that the bottom half is meant to be a taser of sorts with that cylinder thing being a common ready-to-go component, I just don’t get what that giant loop of wire is meant to be doing. Is it an attempt at an EMP thing? Doubt this will do anything significant.
The loop induces magnetism
A dirty nuke would simply kill the people. You want a home-made fuel-air bomb to really destroy those speakers.
Spray foam in any openings lol
Edit: Jesus Christ y’all are way too quick to jump straight to felony vandalism over fucking advertisements
i wouldn’t go as far as prison for it, but fuck that brainwashing garbage.
It’s called civil disobedience??? Felony vandalism sounds like something a narc would say.
'Murica
Hey, leave New Jersey out of this, I don’t pump my own gas!
some of us charge our BYD electric cars from solar panels on our roof and ride our ebikes charged similarly.
but hey, at least you don’t have that one trans kid playing in the girls soccer team /s
I don’t have $50,000 to drop on solar, byd and bice either.
Yeah, the 200% charge and extra 10-20k to get it insurable is a no from me.
Solar roof would be sick though.
Yea i started planning one out this spring and opted for DIY. its still expensive as fuck and i hate myself for taking on the project. But i also cant afford to heat my house with kerosene anymore so something had to break. it was my back and my bank they broke. Not to mention Tariff King bumped the prices up on everything 50% or more. It’s worth the peace of mind, but its honestly a 10k adventure.
Where the fuck do you life where you’re heating your house with kerosene?
Or How’d you get a computer with modern internet in 1904?
A lot of homes in the North still use it.
A lot of fuels are in use for residential heating in america, and the fuel of choice is usually regional. Example
I bought the place from an 80 year old lady who had weird imitation kerosene lantern lighting from the 1980s, and I have Amish down the road. We do be trying to pretend its 1904 around here as much as possible.
I live in a mobile home in rural maine. Most of rural maine heats with regular heating oil, but if you have to keep your oil tanks outside in the winter, the oil will freeze so you need to pay extra for Kerosene. It’s a poor tax!
I actively avoid any gas station that uses these.
Ads for gambling should be prohibited, just like those for tobacco and alcohol.
Ads
for gamblingshould be prohibited,just like those for tobacco and alcohol.But without ads, our children and grandchildren will have no idea what to do when they have a structured settlement and they need cash now.
Yeah, I’m with you on that one, but I’m also realistic.
I get ya. One step at a time. I believe there’s value just saying these things out loud, getting it in the zeitgeist, helping people imagine the possibility.
I bet they won’t be.
Are you saying ads for tobacco and alcohol are prohibited on gas pumps? Because ads for alcohol are all over every advertising medium in existence.
Depends on where you are.
Where I am, alcohol, tobacco and gambling were all prohibited in advertisement, then gambling had a pass (because those making the laws are most likely in the pockets of gambling execs), but it looks like it will get prohibited again.
All the pumps near me disabled the mute button years ago.
Bummerrrr
You could have stopped at “ads”.
Hey another reason I’m glad I don’t drive anymore.
We need more public transit, washability (*walkability), and protected bike lanes.
ETA: hah, great autocorrect, keeping it!
I’m fairly washable.
Hmm, I would hope so! Also added a correction.
Chalk up another one for those gay, librul pansy ass effeminate electric cars…or something like that.
Let me be clear…obviously this is not an option for everyone…but a big schadenfreude filled fuck you to anyone who fell for the obvious propaganda about climate change and electric cars 10+ years ago (edit: *and still chooses to feel entitled to cheap gas). I hope it really hurts when you fill up your F-350s
I’m glad I was able to get an EV. Its great for my anxiety never having to wrangle busy gas stations, and the vast majority of my trips are short enough that the home charger is all I need.
I mean it hurts to fill up my 2010 Yaris. Ain’t no F350 drivers here bro we poor poor.
My favourite thing about EVs is when you get a clown with a noisy car who thinks they’re fast and then you just pull away from a stop much faster than them with barely any noise.
They… they have ads in the gas pumps? Do you have to watch the ads before you are allowed to pump?
It’s during.
I have legit punched the screens, and pressed all the buttons so hard in, I’m suprised nothing broke.
When it’s obvious from the start you can just drive to a different station (for now), but when it sneaks up on me is when I get angry.
No because then you might realize what’s about to happen and go somewhere else. They wait until you start dispensing so you’re a captive audience, then they blast ads.
Sheetz plays ada for their food on the pump screens, which, fair enough. I’m okay with “We have sandwiches if you want one.”
Yet another EV win 😎😎😎
At least I’ve never seen/heard blaring ads on an EV charger. Nor paid anywhere near $75 at one
An air can turned upside down will freeze and destroy a speaker cone while leaving zero evidence.
You can afford canned air in this economy?
I actually use a rechargeable air blower at home because it’s so much cheaper lol.
Video evidence?
Yea definitely wear a hat and stuff.
Should my license plate wear a hat too?
No, that’s where you put the fake mustache.
…but really though, just do what cops do and tuck a dried leaf in the plate holder to partially obscure it with plausible deniability.
and hope that someone else in the state has the exact same car model/color with plates that match the part of the plate that your leaf didn’t obscure.
Police can get away with it because almost all police cars are identical.
I’ve started blasting death metal as load as possible when this happens. If my ears are going to be assaulted I’ll just double down with the noise i want to hear. Luckily the pump i go to has never done this so i try and go there everytime.
What a stupid fucking world to live in. Just break the speaker with a knife and pay it forward
You must have a really small tank. Last time I filled up (less than a week) it was over 120€ (50 liters)
