HA!
This is weird -about 12 years ago I was holidaying in Tuscany with a friend and his girlfriend and as we headed back to germany by car, not too far away from our holiday home that we stayed at -we stopped at a petrol station and he got dupped by EXACTLY the same hustle..
This time it was for a swanky (at the time) Nokia mobile phone...
There must be something about petrol stations and heavy weighted items...