Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!

[Seevio]

That's nothing, when I were young, I left school at 5 and was working down local pit and sweeping chimneys in my leisure time.

You were lucky. We dreamed of having a pit. When I were 3, I worked in t' nearest ditch which were 20 miles away uphill.

 

[slowmotion]

Suppose, like @tyred, you didn't want it for a car. Would that make a difference?
Unlike Tyred, your need might be emergency generators for your WDC.

I'm quite capable of spouting a lot of bollocks to justify my place at the front of the queue if the need arises, but, in truth, all I want my five litres for is to keep my van going if the need arises. I need moral guidance on this thorny issue.

 

[classic33]

I'm quite capable of spouting a lot of bollocks to justify my place at the front of the queue if the need arises, but, in truth, all I want my five litres for is to keep my van going if the need arises. I need moral guidance on this thorny issue.

If there are no other people doing likewise, you'd be first in the queue. No problem.

 

[slowmotion]

Suppose, like @tyred, you didn't want it for a car. Would that make a difference?
Unlike Tyred, your need might be emergency generators for your WDC.

The WDC went carbon-free some years ago. It was built for the long haul.

 

[steveindenmark]

I do believe the driver training at Leconfield has gone, you no longer see hordes of terrified 17 year old squaddies clinging to the steering wheel for a white knuckle ride through Hull

You are probably correct. I have not been there for many years. It could be a housing estate by now. I find it shocking how we do not seem to have any military left. Yet it still costs twice as much to run it than the police.

 

[PK99]

A friend of mine grew up in communist Poland. She told me that if she saw a queue when coming home from school, she was to join it and hold a place for her mum. No checking beforehand what it was for, if it was a queue it was worth joining.

We saw that happening in Cuba in Feb '20

 

[Brandane]

In a way, I'm not interested in the practicalities of pulling off this devilish scheme, but in the morality of it. Is jumping the queue as a pedestrian with a container pretty despicable?

No. As a biker of the motorised variety, I'm effed if I'm going to sit in a queue of 4 wheeled boxes for any length of time, when I can squeeze through to the front and find myself an empty pump that a car driver can't or won't use, e.g. as has been previously discussed car drivers not being able to work out how to use the pump on the "wrong" side of their filler spout - so they sit blocking the forecourt instead. Or when a car moves off from one of the pumps nearest the exit, but access to the empty pump for a car is blocked by a car using the pump behind it. Easy enough for a motorbike to squeeze in and quickly grab £20 worth.

 

[Drago]

According to the local chipwrapper 90% of local forecourts have been sucked dry by the panic buyers.

That said, the Chronic and Error does make the Mail look like the Times in comparison.

 

[DaveReading]

secondly just how much extra revenue revenue has Boris and his gang of corrupt dumbo’s raised due to the idiots who have caused this by panic buying

I think you'll find that the answer is "none".

Few people are driving more than usual during the current shortage, apart from those hopping from garage to garage in search of fuel, and they will be more than offset by the many who are now having to cancel journeys (for work or pleasure) because they haven't been able to find any.

 

[Brandane]

They wonder why there is an HGV driver shortage!
Just saw this advertised on Indeed jobs (the Stan Wardrop job on right of page), for a haulage company local-ish to me.
Class 1 (artic) driver preferably with ADR (dangerous goods licence)... £10 per hour . Overtime rate of £15 per hour applies after 40 hours per week. Don't all be rushing out to spend £3k to get a licence to qualify yourselves to do this job now.

 

[Noodle Legs]

For all their righteous indignation, the media are not our protection against those in power by "holding them to account". For the most part, they are sensationalist sh*t-stirrers.

Hear hear.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Looking at it now I'm feeling that I dodged some major inconvenience at the weekend. I arrived in Leek with a nearly empty tank on Friday night. Fortunately the good people of Leek are either level headed types, or they are a bit slow on the uptake, so there was no panic and the petrol station was only mildly busy on Saturday morning. Perhaps they were at each others throats by Saturday afternoon, I don't know.

I could have been in a right pickle had things turned out a bit differently.

I'm not inclined to blame the meeja. If there was a fault it was that the reporting was sensationalist in style. But that's what they do. You can't say "You may report what is happening, but only in a sober and po faced manner".

 

[Chief Broom]

Panic buyers do have a certain rationality and logic i suppose as they ensure everything will run out in a kinda self fulfilling way ...If David Attenborough did a documentary on these fearful furry critters it would appear reasonable behaviour for the species.

 

[Electric_Andy]

A compulsory minimum payment of, say, £20 should prevent much of that

It wouldn't surprise me if some people would pay for their £20, put a fiver in the tank and then pump the rest on the floor

 

[midlife]

I think there’s a couple of litres in the plastic can I use to fuel up the lawnmower. I’ll stick it in the tank tonight. .