Thiefing Petrol Station (Esso - Deptford Park)

Stoke

Strider590 wrote: »

It ain't Asians that are the problem, it's mostly those here on temporary visa. A BP petrol station local to my last workplace had a load of Bosnians who'd installed a camera above the chip/pin machine and a card skimmer behind the desk.... They'd make your card fail, then take it and pretend to clean it, next thing you know your card has been cloned.

The local Shell round here had the same issue, although that was with Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan's if I remember rightly.

RichardD1970

Strider590 wrote: »

It ain't Asians that are the problem, it's mostly those here on temporary visa. A BP petrol station local to my last workplace had a load of Bosnians who'd installed a camera above the chip/pin machine and a card skimmer behind the desk.... They'd make your card fail, then take it and pretend to clean it, next thing you know your card has been cloned.

Stoke wrote: »

The local Shell round here had the same issue, although that was with Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan's if I remember rightly.

Our local BP had the same issue years ago, it was run by white English. In fact I worked with someone whose brother in law ran the same same scam and was jailed for it .
He was a white Skin Head covered in BNP tattoos! Don't know why you are bringing race into it? A criminal is a criminal whatever.

Iceweasel

Strider590 wrote: »

It ain't Asians that are the problem, it's mostly those here on temporary visa. A BP petrol station local to my last workplace had a load of Bosnians who'd installed a camera above the chip/pin machine and a card skimmer behind the desk.... They'd make your card fail, then take it and pretend to clean it, next thing you know your card has been cloned.

Do you have any links to newspapers / news articles about these Bosnians?


Or where in the UK was this?


Yorkshire?

RumRat

AdrianC wrote: »

Indeed.



I've taken the liberty of simplifying your proposed solution even further...

I would have said fill up, but didn't want to upset the money savers who advocate only putting half a tank in to save on weight.;)
Not something I do personally as the difference is not worth the hassle.

AdrianC

RumRat wrote: »

I would have said fill up, but didn't want to upset the money savers who advocate only putting half a tank in to save on weight.;)
Not something I do personally as the difference is not worth the hassle.

You spoil all my fun... I was waiting for somebody to suggest that silliness... (because, obviously, saving 20kg on a ton and a quarter is really important)

facade

I always go to the toilet before I get in the car to save weight, and I wait until I get to work for my morning cuppa, both to save more weight and so they can pay for the electricity not me:rotfl:

Seriously, cheapest performance modification that you can make is to empty the boot, and lose a stone in weight yourself

AdrianC

facade wrote: »

...and I wait until I get to work for my morning cuppa, both to save more weight and so they can pay for the electricity not me

Are you safe to drive before that cuppa? Road-rage-a-go-go!

photome

hopefully the Op will return to tell us that next time he switched ignition on the fuel gauge had risen

Strider590

Iceweasel wrote: »

Do you have any links to newspapers / news articles about these Bosnians?


Or where in the UK was this?


Yorkshire?

West Midlands

No, it was kept "hush hush", unreported by any local papers..... Probably for political correctness.
I only found out because 4 of the people I worked with had their cards cloned and had visits from the Police to tell them what had been going on.

There was also a child sex gang being run from a pub in the same sort of area, again it went unreported and I only know about that because a friend works for the "leased and tenanted pub company" that was forced to evict them.

I tell ya, if it ain't native UK residents that are up to no good, then half this stuff never reaches the public eye.

Bantex_2

facade wrote: »

I always go to the toilet before I get in the car to save weight, and I wait until I get to work for my morning cuppa, both to save more weight and so they can pay for the electricity not me:rotfl:

Seriously, cheapest performance modification that you can make is to empty the boot, and lose a stone in weight yourself

Surely it would be better to wait until you get to work before going to the toilet. That way your are being paid to do it.