Am I An Alarmist ?

A strange crime out of Central Virginia? Or a scary one? It certainly doesn't seem to be getting much news coverage.

A Delta (not the airline) fuel truck loaded with 1,700 gallons of home heating oil was stolen sometime Monday night into Tuesday morning from a company in Petersburg.

Scary because...

The fuel is used primarily for furnaces and for heating homes, although Petersburg police quickly contacted State Police and Homeland Security. If combined with the right chemicals the fuel could have been turned into a bomb, although FBI does not believe the truck was ever going to be used as a terrorist device.

but the truck shows up...

The empty truck was found yesterday after it was ditched in a business district in Northeast Washington.

Now I know heating oil is expensive nowadays, but considering the recent scenes out of Iraq....

And how often is this happening?