A customer walked into an Amoco station in West Dundee, Illinois, at 3:30 a.m. on December 6, 1991 and bought a pair of gloves. Minutes later, a West Dundee police officer walked in and told the proprietor that he'd violated a local ordinance forbidding the sale of anything except automotive products between 2 and 5 a.m. The Amoco station could be fined up to $500.

The customer had tried to buy the gloves at the Shell station across the street, but when the clerk there refused to sell them, the customer went to the Amoco instead and bought the gloves there. The clerk at the Shell station then called the police to report a violation of the zoning ordinance.

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