# Fucking TV screens shoving ads in my face AT THE GAS PUMPS

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**Created:** [February 27, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-screens-shoving-ads-in-my-face-at-the-gas-pumps/439391 "2008-02-27T17:07:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-tv-screens-shoving-ads-in-my-face-at-the-gas-pumps/439391/101 "2017-07-31T03:23:26Z")

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Another point: I see all the above remarks about locking spout handles disappearing and then re-appearing. This is true here in California, as already noted, and has been for a while.

I’m still wondering: Why? What was the science (or, more likely, politics) behind this? I am definitely glad that all the pumps I’ve used lately have those locks.

(I had always thought it might have to do with liability issues: Occasionally such a pump, unattended by the customer, would fail to shut off while the customer was washing his windows or going to the bathroom, and spill quite a lot of gas on the ground. [Remember that scene from Hitchcock’s _The Birds_?] )

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