ABBEVILLE, S.C. – A convenience store accidentally posted a sign announcing that gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon, sending drivers into a frenzy as word got out.

"The whole parking lot was full and the road was backed up," Shell employee Jamie Barbee said to the Greenwood Index Journal. "It looked like everybody in Abbeville was in here. There were a lot of people filling up their tanks on three and four dollars worth of gas."

The station is one of seven in the area operated by Greenwood Petroleum. General Manager Carol Cheek said she was distraught by the fact that people had taken advantage of the station's misfortune. She equated the act to looting private homes after a disaster.

"They were calling people on their cell phones and saying 'come get some' and people know that's wrong," Cheek said to the Greenwood Index Journal. She estimated the station lost several thousand dollars in profit.