In a development that reflects the times, Tasmanian Police say they are investigating the theft of a significant quantity of fuel overnight.
Officers say that between 5pm yesterday and 6.30 this morning, offenders broke into a property in a rural part of Oatlands, about an hour’s drive north of Hobart.
They left with “several hundred litres of fuel … from a storage trailer” parked on the property.
Police said property and vehicle owners needed to take steps to secure their vehicles and tanks, such as using CCTV.
Last week, Victoria’s Farmers Federation president, Brent Hosking, told Nine News his members had reported several fuel thefts.
“We have heard one or two disturbing stories, one case of a fuel tank on a tractor having a hole drilled through it and the fuel drained out,” he said. “We heard another incident of a road grader parked overnight doing maintenance on a work – public work – they came back the next morning to see fuel siphoned out of the fuel tank, which is really ordinary.”
