Reply to: Police idiocy part 3467

[GJABS]

One idea might be to fit an RFID chip onto the car fuel recepicle, coded to the fuel type, and garages could fit a solar powered RFID reader to the nozzle, and if the wrong type come together - flashing light / alarm warning.

[Hobosapien]

Sometimes, the size of the nozzle makes absolutely no difference....

She's just doing what her therapist suggested for treating her penis envy.

[BrilloPad]

OK, I gave you the benefit. As per your rep comment my original reply to this wasn't nice, it wasn't meant to be. Nor is sitting on the phone to my youngest brother talking to him about his progress in dealing with post traumatic stress brought on by having to review video and photo evidence in child abuse and protection cases. Or about how he's recovering from injuries sustained when he was hit by a stolen car driven by someone else who regards the Police as "filth".

There are bad individuals in every walk of life but if you are going to continue to apply this to all those working to protect your comfy little white middle class existence from the nastier bits of our society, and use the same terminology as they would then you can jog on.

Welcome to my ignore list, on here and IRL. I wont be talking to you again.

Racist and Classist. Not nice.

Before my dealings with the filth I would have agreed with you.

[DaveB]

I have 2 cars. One petrol. One diesel. Never had an issue.

Maybe I am over-estimating the levels of common sense out there.

Another report today in the bbc about damage caused to filth cars by animals. Which is hard to avoid. Except for the case where the filth DELIBERATELY ran over a dog. Which shows their level.....

OK, I gave you the benefit. As per your rep comment my original reply to this wasn't nice, it wasn't meant to be. Nor is sitting on the phone to my youngest brother talking to him about his progress in dealing with post traumatic stress brought on by having to review video and photo evidence in child abuse and protection cases. Or about how he's recovering from injuries sustained when he was hit by a stolen car driven by someone else who regards the Police as "filth".

There are bad individuals in every walk of life but if you are going to continue to apply this to all those working to protect your comfy little white middle class existence from the nastier bits of our society, and use the same terminology as they would then you can jog on.

Welcome to my ignore list, on here and IRL. I wont be talking to you again.

[BrilloPad]

I have 2 cars. One petrol. One diesel. Never had an issue.

Maybe I am over-estimating the levels of common sense out there.

Another report today in the bbc about damage caused to filth cars by animals. Which is hard to avoid. Except for the case where the filth DELIBERATELY ran over a dog. Which shows their level.....

[Platypus]

Now, I check at least 5 times I'm using the right fuel, even reading the fuel cap and then checking again against the pump.

Me too. I've mis-fuelled my cars twice. It's annoying. And I'm not filth.

[greenlake]

diesel nozzles do not fit generally fit unleaded cars as they are too big - this was actually bought in a few years back to try and reduce the chance to this happening.

Sometimes, the size of the nozzle makes absolutely no difference....

[original PM]

Can't be a*d to check obviously but also recall petrol in a diesel car is not as damaging as diesel in a petrol car. Bit surprising.

Indeed - it is to do with relative combustion rates or something - generally diesel goes with a bigger pop - but I am no expert and i am sure one will be along in a minute.

[xoggoth]

Can't be a*d to check obviously but also recall petrol in a diesel car is not as damaging as diesel in a petrol car. Bit surprising.

[original PM]

diesel nozzles do not fit generally fit unleaded cars as they are too big - this was actually bought in a few years back to try and reduce the chance to this happening.

Obviously unleaded pumps do fit in diesel cars.

The reason it was done this way - generally diesels are driven by men and they are less likely to put the wrong fuel in and so do not need something to physically stop them.

It's true that!

[greenlake]

Everyone (in the developed world certainly) had one of those early learning toys where you try to fit different shapes through holes as a toddler, so second nature, yet something so simple is overlooked.

[Hobosapien]

Pretty sure I spotted a device on dragons den, few years back that you could retro fit to a car and would stop you putting in the incorrect fuel. Nozzle size or something.

Amazed this problem hasn't been solved by them changing the nozzle shape so that say petrol is a star and diesel a triangle.

Everyone (in the developed world certainly) had one of those early learning toys where you try to fit different shapes through holes as a toddler, so second nature, yet something so simple is overlooked.

World must be run by absolute morons.

[WTFH]

Met Police spends £83,858 in three years on fixing cars | Daily Mail Online

Met Police spends £83,858 in three years on fixing cars after officers confuse whether to fill them with petrol or diesel

Would any police person who is not a racist, sexist moron who was bullied at school and trying to make up for it, please stand up.....

Let's look at the numbers the Mail have actually quoted...

Over the 3 year period, the Met has filled up slightly over 28,000,000 litres of fuel. For the sake of simplicity, let's say the average refuel is 56 litres. That would give us 500,000 refuels.
Of those 500,000 refuels, 213 were wrong. That's 0.04%.

0.04% is the same percentage as the amount of truth in most Mail headlines.
How much time and money was wasted on a frivolous FOI request by this rag that could have been spent on carrying out important business?
Their next story will be about the BBC, then about Europe. Rinse and repeat until they can do another one about foreigners/benefits cheats/house prices/terrorism, or maybe they could do one on non-dom tax cheats who like to stir up hatred - an inside story.

[fatboyslim]

police are only human, number of incidents seem to be quite small for a large force, as another poster pointed out.

[woohoo]

Pretty sure I spotted a device on dragons den, few years back that you could retro fit to a car and would stop you putting in the incorrect fuel. Nozzle size or something.

I've filled up the misses company car once with £2.47 (realised my mistake and stopped) of the wrong type of fuel - on her birthday. We spent the evening waiting for a loader (4x4) and then driven to Warrington. I don't think £2.47 worth of fuel would have broken the damn car but couldn't get on the internet to check and it was a company car so..£128 it cost to drain.

Now, I check at least 5 times I'm using the right fuel, even reading the fuel cap and then checking again against the pump.