Don't believe it...it's a hoaks. This was posted on one of my Corvette forums with a link to a paper from Florida and there is no Captain Sands and there's been no reports of anyone anywhere being stuck by needles from a gasoline pump handle. Don't know why someone would want to start that kind of story, but it isn't real.
Here's a link.....
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/gaspump.asp