'Your mistake, my gain'... or petty larceny?

[doc_strange]

MINOCQUA, Wis. - Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon. [...]

Full story here.  Read it, please, then post your opinion.

Would you rush there and gas up... or try to call the manager?  What are the ethics here?  Discuss.

Comments

[ivy]

Yeah, that's not okay. I might have done it unknowingly, and then looked at my total and gone "whoa, what?", but if I knew it was a programming mistake, I'd feel bad taking advantage of it. It seems doubly awful in a small town situation, where you're going to have to brazenly face the person you knowingly screwed over.

I give back the money when cashiers accidentally under-charge me at checkout stations too.

While I know that most people are more self-interested than honest, particularly when it comes to business and finance, if I were the gas station owner, it'd still come as an unwelcome shock that my neighbors were all willing to do this to me. And I'd want to know who, so that I would know not to trust them further than I could throw them in the future.