Re: Mad Max Scenario - 2008.

"Daryl Walford" <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:13rf41briv5717e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kwyjibo wrote:
>> "Geroge W Frost" <frosty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:j9utj.15508$421.4992@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> But, the only thing is what they have out Calder Park,
>>> Cash or crerdit card and licence before the attendant turns the bowser

>>> on.
>>
>> A servo I went to tried that too. I refused to buy from them. There is
no 
>> way I am leaving my credit card with the servo attendant (out of my 
>> sight) while I fill up.
>>
>> Anyone who agrees to this is a moron (IMHO) and deserves to have 
>> fraudulent charges appear on their card. It wouldn't surprise me if the

>> bank refused to protect you in a situation like this, as they make it 
>> quite clear that you should NEVER let your card leave your sight when 
>> making a purchase.
>>
> They can solve the problem of drive offs with a redesign of servo's but 
> they won't do it because they will lose their biggest money spinner
which 
> is shop sales.
> A servo near me used to have one way "spikes" that you drove over to get

> in and then you had to exit via a boom gate which only opened after you 
> paid the ca****er through the window.
> It was an independent but when the site was taken over by Shell they 
> bulldozed it and went back to a standard servo layout.
> BTW if George is referring to the big new BP near Calder Park I've
filled 
> the truck there and not been asked to pre pay, most likely they only ask

> you to pre pay late at night.
>
>
>
> Daryl


Yes Daryl, that is the one I was talking about
when I went in with the truck at any time of day or night, I was never 
hassled and fuelled up before I went in to pay

but with the car, after 7.30 pm. I went in to fuel up and the bowser
didn't 
start,
so I went in and asked did the bowser work and was told by the off
coloured 
towel head
 that I had to leave my credit card with him before I proceeded to fill my

tank, to which I replied  with a polite "**** You Bozo"
I went back to my car, dragged the hose out of the filler pipe and dropped

it on the ground and drove off