petrol in containers

[modeste]

I have heard that North Wales Police have suddenly ordered all garages to stop selling petrol to customers using any kind of container.

As a boat owner I frequently take 2 X 25 litre tanks to the garage and fill them with no problem.

I'm sure that somewhere, there is legislation making what I do illiegal, but are the police persecuting innocent people in the light of recent events?

[mccfluff]

have you rung to check?

[EcclesCake]

Sounds like a sensible precaution and one that I hope has been adopted elsewhere.

I'd much rather have a few days inconvenience than arsonists having free access to fuel.

[Old_Geezer]

Surely not. You are foolish enough to run out, trudge 9 miles to the nearest garage, and they refuse ? Anyway what are they going to do with the fuel you've already pumped into your container ? This is a joke isn't it ?

[Old_Geezer]

You just have to siphon your car tank to get access to fuel. What sort of authority would think to try to connect recent riots to such a ban?

[annie0000]

Errrm - does that mean I have to cart our petrol mower down to the garage to fill it up now? (That's if it ever actually stops raining long enough so that we can cut the grass!!!!!!)

[4candles]

Just what I was thinking Annie. What am I supposed to do - siphon my own car tank?

[Old_Geezer]

That too. I have a petrol strimmer.

Come on modeste, it's a wind up isn't it.

[annie0000]

had a bit of a google and it seems the Malawi authorities have banned it - nothing about the uk I could find.

http://www.bnltimes.c...ls-energy-crisis.html

[ubasses]

Bedfordshire have received same instructions, but i think it is only while the riots were going on

[annie0000]

4candles - maybe, but what do you do if you have a diesel car(which luckily I don't!) and I though a lot of cars now have things that stop you siphoning the tank?

[redcrx]

when i was back in Norfolk this week the local garages were refusing to sell fuel in containers too.

It will only be whilst the rioting continues.

[annie0000]

we have had no riots here in Scotland - saw a few people being charged for incitement on the internet. I think the Glasgow airport factor still carries some weight.

[factor-fiction]

It looks like one of those 'knee-jerk reaction' measures than is often announced when authorities want to be seen to be doing something and is then quietly withdrawn when it's realised it inconveniences tha law abiding citizens and not the troublemakers who will easily find a way round it (like finding a source of free petrol from other people's cars)

[vivandorron]

You have said that garages have been told to stop selling petrol to customers using containers. No doubt the thinking is to stop petrol bombs being made. A bit stupid really because people of a criminal mind will obtain it; perhaps from syphoning a motor vehicle's tank. Furthermore I am unaware of any law that prohibits containers being filled with petrol for legal usage.

Unless the Police have made all motorists aware of the position, I would say continue filling your containers which are no doubt in the boot section of your vehicle. Would the cashier in a Supermarket store be able to tell that the petrol registered on the till had not gone into your vehicle.?

Must admit that North Wales Police sometimes do strange things.!!

Ron.

[4candles]

Annie - aye, good point about diesel. Don't know about the anti-siphon thing.

As you say, all quiet here in Scotland, not even as much trouble as this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cbVW_QS2eE&feature=player_embedded

[Richie616]

You would like to think that the garage owner could use his common sense to differentiate between a sub-human hoodie yobbo and a law-abiding member of the public, particularly in your neck of the woods. Perhaps a different matter if you're trying to buy petrol in Salford and you're a 19 year old with a balaclava on and a 40 inch plasma under his arm who speaks only the word 'innit'..

[annie0000]

^^^^^ where's the "like" button when you need it!!!!

[ummmm]

Bloke OH works with was refused petrol yesterday.

[joko]

there are signs all over the one i went to earlier, saying no containers allowed...its temorary though