Double-swiping the rewards card led to free gas for months — and a felony theft charge

Receiving free gas is a function of the gas card. Responsibility lies with the company and team who designed the card, not with the woman who used the card as designed.

Bullshit. Corpo's build a system that users figure out and use? Sounds like they got caught with their pants down and have to make an example. Fucking trolls.

If you do it once, good for you. If you do it repeatedly, also good for you. But if you "used 510 times, and more than 7,400 gallons of gas were pumped for free"( in only a 7 month period), I don't know what you expect. You're going 2-3 times a day getting 14gal every time.

If she was rich, the response would be, "congratulations!", and if she was an LLC it would be a fine of... 5 percent?

If you're poor and you exploit a loophole you receive a felony theft charge. If you're rich enough you receive no repercussions and possibly a bonus.

Sorry but how is this not on the system, let alone a crime?

This slope is slick, if she is guilty of theft due to a system error then whats to stop them from saying the price you bought something at was an "error" later?

And lets face it, swiping a card 2 times breaking your system tells me that you should get better QA not charge someone.

$28,000 of gas in a few months? Yeah no shit. Find something like this and keep it to personal use if you must. Probably could've kept it under the radar or an amount small enough to settle without criminal charges if caught.

Please put me on that jury so I can vote not guilty.

"Stealing" from the ruling class is always okay because it's not stealing, it's reclamation.

When I was a kid, I used a vending machine that had a busted coin return button; it counted the coins I put in, but also spat them back out, so I got some free snacks.

Come and get me, cops.

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this woman and TurboTax.

lots of people could still be doing this if this lady hadn't been such an entrepeneur about it. If you ever discover something like this don't tell anyone about and don't abuse it too much; plausible deniability is far better a shield than a small pile of money - saying "oh I didnt realize" is far easier if you don't set up some kind of pyramid scheme around it.

To all the people defending her, how is this different than just pumping and driving away? You could always pump first and pay inside later, and it works on the honour system. In this case she clearly intentionally circumvented paying.

Gas Pumps are calibrated for the flow that comes from fully opening the valve by pressing handle all the way down.

Do with that information what you will.