.// What if I refused to make that trip to the kiosk? What would they do?// bilking
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1423063.html
long thread there with answers of variable quality
and I thought this was me in the petrol station
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question73076.html
but it is me in a fight on a hospital corridor - golly didnt I have fun in those days ?
The old system I was 'caught' under - petrol pump with card. the pump allowed filling and then didnt take the amount from the card. I was written to by the Chief Constable no less saying it looked as tho I had bilked but he knew what ..... go to the petrol station and pay and they would forget all about it
The card apparently clicks in and they take 1p off ( recorded at 1605h) and then the rest is taken off. I checked this before raising hell at the station - and indeed my card had been recorded but not charged finally - showing I had intended to pay
(Back) at the gas station, I demanded the video and said it showed I had an intention to pay and so why ...... were they telling the chief constable that I had stolen it ? when they knew I hadnt
Queue of ten others whilst |I was yelling "Making false statements about your customers may be very expensive indeed !" and served the data subject request on the hapless till clerk - 'you have been well and truly served!' She scuttled away like a beaten cur leaving nine in a queue
I also spoke to the owner who was finding all this Very Funny Indeed - and was also of the view that the CCTV wasnt under his control and he didnt know whose it was ! (more giggling)
I also asked whether money changed hands when he told the chief constable to contact me because I had stolen petrol ? at which point he realised that things werent going his way at all -and said it wasnt him it was the clerk. I also mentioned that using a CCTV to prevent theft was under different statutory rules to using it to collect debts.
I think I also dragged in: using a chief constable to collect his debts was an unlawful use of public funds - a point I think I made to the chief constable separately. who also said "narfin to do wiv me guv: I am up for my sirship I am !"
well you did ask what happened
and that is the sort of thing that happens. I paid
Never got the video - but no one doubted that I had put a card in
and so as you can see - the Chief Constables have decided that they are NOT debt collectors for lazy and stupid garage owners after all.