Originally Posted by ah-kay

With no dis-respect. Look at the hassle you caused yourself by running empty. You could have spent $5 to pump 1+ gallon and get to your favorite station without any issues.

Instead you wasted yourself a few hours, a few flares and held up traffic. Now you are blaming other motorists running over your flares and not giving you a hand? If it were me, I would have kept quiet and let by-gone be by-gone. Don't even mention this incident to anyone.