An impatient driver sped off without letting the attendant unhook the nozzle. The near disaster turned out fine thanks to this attendant’s quick reaction.
Weymouth driver and Redditor /u/CrazyDoodleJ2 shared pretty cool dashcam footage from earlier last week (June 6, 2025) showing a Cumberland Farms Gas Station Attendant staying cool as a cucumber under pressure and catching a flying gas nozzle after a customer drove off before the attendant got a chance to return the nozzle to the pump.
Check out his dashcam video embedded below with the original Reddit thread linked here.
The incident happened at a Cumberlands Farm off of Park Ave W and Main St. in Weymouth (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As his dashcam footage shows, OP is stopped behind a driver in an Acura TL finishing up fueling at one of Cumberland Farms’s fuel service gas pumps.
It looks like the TL driver hands the employee a tip, but starts to leave before the pump attendant can take out the nozzle and return it to the pump.
A moment after the driver in the TL starts to go OP gives a blip of his horn, warning the gas station attendant of the impending potential disaster.
Thankfully, the pump nozzle doesn’t disconnect from the quick disconnect pump hose but rather, pops out of the Acura’s filler neck.
Then, like a bad a** mother you-know-what, the attendant catches the flying nozzle, mid-air, and all is saved.
The attendant locks eyes with OP as if to say, “See what I just pulled off?” before returning the nozzle to the pump and walking back to the TL driver to reinsert their gas gap and inform them that everything’s A-OK.
“Nice f***ing catch, bro.”
“That scared the s*** out of me. That was pretty slick, though,” the BAMF attendant replied.
“I’m not claiming that this is AI, but the catch looks so clean you would almost think it’s AI,” /u/LifeLongLearner commented.
“Where’s the version with the Spider-Man music cued to the catch!?,” /u/CoopOfTheDay wondered.
Let this be a reminder for towns with ordinances prohibiting self-service to make sure the pump still isn’t in your vehicle’s filler neck when you leave.
