Talk About a Gas Guzzler

Around 2:30 this morning, an SUV crashed into a gas pump at a gas station on the North Side. The crash caused an explosion, which melted the gas pump and wrecked a cab, and yet, somehow, the driver of the SUV didn’t stick around. Police are looking for the driver and vehicle, which they described as a purple two-door Chevy Blazer (classy) with possible front-end damage. Possible? Can SUVs really crash into gas pumps and cause explosions and leave with no damage? Christ.
Cab driver Anthony Cavalier had just started filling up at the Shell station at Ashland and Lawrence when the SUV crashed, and he dove out the passenger window of his taxi shortly before it caught on fire. Cavalier was not injured.
If you woke up in your Blazer this morning, stinking like gasoline, be warned: police say the incident was captured on film by a surveillance camera, and I think we’ve all seen enough Law & Order to know that that shit don’t lie. Even if the police waste some time investigating your ex-con brother, you are going to get caught. Also, the NBC5 slideshow kind of rules, especially because pictures 2 and 5 are the same except for a little zoom, and picture 6 is just a caption.