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A filling station attendant or gas station attendant (also known as a gas jockey in the US and Canada [1] [2]) is a worker at a full-service filling station who performs services other than accepting payment. Tasks usually include pumping fuel, cleaning windshields, and checking vehicle oil levels.
On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed Fournier 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was stuffed in a trash can, so his feet were jammed up against his chin.
Gas station attendants have suffered adverse health consequences depending on the type of fuel used, exposure to vehicle exhaust, and types of personal protective equipment (PPE) offered. Studies have noted higher levels of chromosomal deletions [ 18 ] and higher rates of miscarriage , [ 19 ] and workers have reported headaches, fatigue, throat ...
Harvey's Grocery and Texaco Station, in Camden, Arkansas; Allen Tire Company and Gas Station, Prescott; Texaco Station No. 1, Paragould; Wittsburg Store and Gas Station, Wittsburg
Ronald James Read (October 23, 1921 – June 2, 2014) was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant. Read grew up in Dummerston, Vermont, in an impoverished farming household. He walked or hitchhiked 4 mi (6.4 km) daily to his high school and was the first high school graduate in his family.
A few areas have gas stations that use electronic tolling transponders as a method of payment, such as Via Verde in Portugal. Pay at the pump was first invented in 1973 by George Randolph “Randy” Nicholson (1937 ( 1937 ) –2020 ( 2021 ) ), debuting at an E-Z Serve gas station in Abilene, Texas , but did not take off until the 1980s.
The Leathers Oil Company murders refers to an unsolved mass murder that occurred in Gresham, Oregon, United States, on January 17, 1994.The victims were Virginia Kay Endecott (born July 15, 1946); [1] Rosealie Fey-Girtz (born September 17, 1942); [2] and Mary Beth Carey (born May 16, 1968), [3] each of whom were employed at the Leathers Oil Company gas station.
On their way to California, the trio stops at a gas station. Tom shows the strange gas station attendant a picture of Jesse and Nicole and asks if he had seen them. The attendant says he did see them and warned them to be careful. Jared finds a horse-riding badge that belonged to Nicole, prompting Tom to demand more information from the attendant.