lozgti1

Only my local garage where I spend about £300 a month

The Police though( very nice I must say) rang my home,spoke to my wife using her first name without asking for it.I rang them and they invited me just to go back and pay

Now I know my car details and my name are all over the DVLA but how the heck did they get my home telephone number and know my wife's name?

I'd be a rubbish real thief

zip106

Copper ******** your wife, perhaps?

DYK

ScoobyWon't

Phone book and Electoral register.

westallc

iTrader: (3)

i take it you just forgot??

as for info you must realise in this day and age they know just about everything about you your family etc etc etc etc so do lots of other people you would be silly to think otherwise

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

That info is in the public domain, if I knew your real name & location I could easy track it down. Police have that & more of course ...

TX.

scooby595

if you're on Facebook or Twitter you probably even told them you were going to the petrol station!!!

Ok, maybe not you personally but these days that's how anyone finds anything out!!

Luan Pra bang

In a way its one of the joys of using a local garage, mine has 1 guy from sri lanka who works by my count 85 hours a week. When I forgot to pay he just waited till I got my milk the next day and asked then. If I had not been in that day he would have just cycled to my house after his shift and got it then.

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

How can you guys forget to pay though ... did you think it was free that day or something

TX/

lozgti1

Brave boy

I actually handed over my card,after checking my receipt seems they charged for the extras I bought but not the petrol! Then ring the Police and say I've done a runner!

Suppose info is all available.Bit concerning though for the Police to just ring you at home!

Paid for petrol now.Probably spent about £15k at the garage!

lozgti1

Oh,and I had my 6 year old with me fidddling with the sweets.My head wasn't quite with it!

zip106

How could you not notice, when putting in your pin number, that they'd only charged you for Plumpers Monthly and not the fuel?

Dirk Diggler 75

..............Plumpers ..................

lozgti1

Didn't think for one minute.Kids are very distracting,never ever happened before.

Plumpers monthly?!!!

davegtt

To be fair I could get robbed left right and centre by not checking how much is in the pin machine before I put my pin number in. I just trust the till operator to have sorted it, but I live a care free life like that lol

Lee247

Easy done to be honest. I paid for some groceries and thought I had paid for my petrol too. I didn't look. Just entered my pin. I had been going there for years so had no reason to question.
One hour later, local plod was at the house as the fuel had not been paid with the groceries. ( A little supermarket at the fuel station)
Plod were a disgrace to be honest. I did say to them, why the hell would I pay for a chicken if I was intent of nicking £70s worth of fuel

SamUK

iTrader: (1)

I dont think they care, and would have still taken you to court over £15 of unpaid fuel..


Copper came knocking on my door once about unpaid fuel - but it turned out to be a machine fault as we had receipts of the fuel..

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Better and faster response than you get from burglaries, assault etc

Lee247

That's true. Last year, someone was shooting in the field next to our property. We reported it to Plod. Two hours later I had to phone them and ask if they were going to turn up

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Missed a trick then, remember the proper call is ' someone, who looks a bit pikey has parked their untaxed car in a disabled bay near my house and is now shooting an unlicensed gun at what looks like empty red marked petrol cans, dressed in a burkha. Oh and I think they are a ginga as well '


Now see how quick they arrive

ScoobyWon't

They'd turn up and nick you for racially aggravated words which may cause distress if you used the words "pikey" and "ginga" on the phone to them.

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

They would turn up though

An0n0m0us

Sadly you probably aren't far off the mark.

fivetide

iTrader: (1)

I had the same call a few years ago.

In my defence I'd gone to use the 'pay at pump' facility and it was broken. By the time I'd filled up I'd forgotten that (no sign on pump) so drove off thinking I'd paid up.

got the call that afternoon and sorted it out.

5t.

tony de wonderful

Why didn't you pay?

Turbohot

Because chicken cost merely 7 quid, and petrol was as much as £70?

In all fairness, it is easy to forget with this busy and sometimes stressful lifestyles we lead these days. I once picked a bottle of £1 sunflower oil in Iceland supermarket, and just walked off. Then I walked into a shop across the road to buy flowers. When I was at the pay point in the flower shop, I had a flashback of me picking the oil, and obliviously walking out of Iceland without paying for it. Paranoia of being captured on CCTV took me over instantly, and I imagined coppers coming up to my house to take that bottle of oil off me, and to label me as a shoplifter. I darted out from the flower shop with the flowers and the oil bottle in my hands, and ended up at Iceland till to pay for oil. While I was paying for oil, a flashback come to me that I had just run out of the flower shop without paying the woman. I imagined being tormented in jail for the unpaid flowers I walked off with. Oh, no! So, after quickly paying for the oil, I sprinted my way back to the flower shop. The flower woman had her mouth open in a shock. I nearly shoved £6.99 in her mouth. Phew! I corrected my stupidities within a few minutes, so all was well at the end. Never again.

22BUK

I thought forgetting to pay was a civil matter?
If you drive in with an "intent not to pay" then that is theft.

So why did the police show up?
Has the law changed?

Steve_PPP

iTrader: (3)

Not round here, pikeys are exempt from the law

If it was a decent honourable citizen using the gun, then they'd be there in a flash

WRX_Dazza

i once got charged for the wrong pump and it was £20 less than i put in. nothing ever came of it !
i did give the £20 to a mates just giving page though, just in case Karma took hold.