So who else has done it before?

Rybo89

Rybo89

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Just filled my tank up at Tesco then realized i have left my wallet at home.

What a complete utter **** i felt like lol
 
I'm always paranoid about this. Every time I check my wallet to make sure I've got my card on me before filling up.

Not been unable to pay yet *touch wood*.
 
Yep, 2am. Brimmed my tank from practically empty, £74 and realised I had got the days mixed up and hadn't yet been paid. Wouldnt let me leave the forecourt so I rang a friend who kindly came to pay it till I got paid the following day.
 
Some can take payment over the phone if you can ring someone. Otherwise I would imagine you leave driving license or something else to collect later.
 
Yep, fortunately the guy couldn't care less and told me to come back with the money after filling out some paper work.
 
Blue160 said:
What happens in that situation? Do you write them an IOU or something?
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Depends on the amount.

£20 or so they'll give you a no means to pay form, which gives you 7 days to pay before they send the debt collectors. Larger amounts they won't let the vehicle leave the forecourt as I found out.

EDIT: They take car reg and license details
 
Blue160 said:
What happens in that situation? Do you write them an IOU or something?
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Well they make you feel like you have just murders 12 babies.

Then you have to wait for them to fill out a sheet of paper with all your details. Then they go round the car to jot down the tax disk number,plates and note down any recognizable things on the car (blue car, black wheels etc)

Petrol station was packed aswell, felt like a right nobber lol.

Then they let me nip home after 20min of interrogation to fetch my wallet.
 
Seems to depend on where. BP just made me fill in the pink form, 7 days to pay and off I went.

Shell on the other hand, Fill in a form, take photo of me, take front and rear photos of the car and 24 hours to pay.
 
I've done it once (and only once), but fortunately the station is only a mile from home, so I walked back to get my wallet.
 
I once drove away without paying. Was in a world of my own, and forgot to go in and pay. I realised about 45 minutes later when I looked into my wallet to find a £10 note.

I was unsure why I had £10 as that was to be used for petrol. Needless to say I rushed to the petrol station before I had a police chase on me.

Was all ok in the end, the station is my regular and the lad behind the desk knew me. So just paid, and left feeling very embarrassed.
 
Yup, done it once here too. I now always check for my wallet BEFORE I put any petrol in! I did it at a Texaco station some time ago, they just told me to move my car to the front parking spaces while I got my sister to bring my wallet up to me (wasn't far from home). I think it locked out one of their tills though while I waited, but they didn't take any details from me or anything
 
If you were to just leave the station against their will and then come back and pay, would you have committed an offence?

Law seems to say:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/31 said:
Making off without payment..

(1)Subject to subsection (3) below, a person who, knowing that payment on the spot for any goods supplied or service done is required or expected from him, dishonestly makes off without having paid as required or expected and with intent to avoid payment of the amount due shall be guilty of an offence. .
(2)For purposes of this section “payment on the spot” includes payment at the time of collecting goods on which work has been done or in respect of which service has been provided. .
(3)Subsection (1) above shall not apply where the supply of the goods or the doing of the service is contrary to law, or where the service done is such that payment is not legally enforceable. .
(4)Any person may arrest without warrant anyone who is, or whom he, with reasonable cause, suspects to be, committing or attempting to commit an offence under this section.
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I would offer that if you leave with intent to collect the means to pay, so you aren't acting dihonestly and you do not have intent to avoid payment, you aren't guilty of an offence.
 
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I don't really see how they can stop you from leaving, unless they clamp your car or something?

If you come back later in the day and pay also I don't see how they'd have a leg to stand on in any legal/criminal sense.
 
I'm assuming if you leave they'll phone the police and report it as theft rather than just letting the police know you've simply gone home to collect the means to pay.
 
ManLoveRulesOK said:
I'm assuming if you leave they'll phone the police and report it as theft rather than just letting the police know you've simply gone home to collect the means to pay.
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I don't know, in my case the guy didn't phone the police. No reasons as to why he didn't. It could have been the value I guess, or the fact I'm a regular and maybe knew I had made a mistake and hoped that I would realise and come back with the money...

Most stations will have different procedures I guess?
 
Did it once after work when I worked for sainsburys was pay day and I for got about a direct debit that was going out was about a fiver short on a 70 quid fill up. Filled out a return to pay form. Went in for ly next shift and paid then got it in the neck from my manager because I should have known better.
 
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