Are People Really Stealing Petrol?

I find this quite bizarre, but apparently people are stealing gas from people’s cars according to the NY Post.  People are filling their cars up and then when they go to use their cars later they find ther’s no petrol left.  Wow, what sort of world do we live in?  I think I remember hearing about this happening when there was the big petrol crisis some years ago but I’m not sure how this is done.  I know that people can siphon but I don’t understand how the get the petrol cap off.

Perhaps there are some people who forget to actually use their key to lock their petrol tank and so there are theives just going around having a feel to see if they can find any that are unlocked.  I’m not really all that sure.  Anyway, you can buy locking gas caps that will solve this problem.  Don’t understand why anyone would actually need to buy one of these because my car already has a lock.  Who knows…