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[Varche]

I needed yet more unleaded for my chainsaw. Went to a different petrol station and out came the attendant.

Nice petrol can but it is made of metal. Can't (but will this once) let you put petrol in it!! next time you need a plastic can. A spark between filler nozzle and can could ignite fuel. Seemed reasonable enough.

I guess the law was changed at some time. I have had this green gallon Paddy Hopkirk can since 1972 I think. I remember buying it from Epic Accessories in Leicester so I have had my monies worth. I guess now it will have to go to a museum.  I wonder if a plastic one will last the same length of time?

Obviously pump attendant is having a week off from the Shell station at Brackley, as he is brain dead from the neck up.  This gives the Government regulations which explains you can have a maximum of 2 metal and 2 plastic fuel storage containers with caps off next to your oven  on your premises, but they must be outside your home.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petroleum-faqs.htm

But when did our government regulations apply to Spain?

I don't think they were ever a colony (despite the numbers of ex-pats hiding from the law living down there ))..

Witness protection programme mate. You get a ruin so far from civilisation even the locals don't know you live there, a useless farm and an old Omega

Bootie - Did I see you outside Lidl the other day with a can?

[bootie]

Lidl in Labuan?  Yes!!!

[Omegatoy]

Must be just that filling station Varche, I regularly use my metal can for 10 litres in any of the 5 stations we use, never once been approached like that, mind you I'm normally unshaved, scruffy and wearing working clothes, a proper unsavoury looking character!!!LOL   Graham, no comments from you either!!!

That's posh dress for spain IIRC ....   

T-shirt, Shorts, flip-flops being "normal"  .....  ?   

true but you forgot the silly hat!!!

[Rods2]

I needed yet more unleaded for my chainsaw. Went to a different petrol station and out came the attendant.

Nice petrol can but it is made of metal. Can't (but will this once) let you put petrol in it!! next time you need a plastic can. A spark between filler nozzle and can could ignite fuel. Seemed reasonable enough.

I guess the law was changed at some time. I have had this green gallon Paddy Hopkirk can since 1972 I think. I remember buying it from Epic Accessories in Leicester so I have had my monies worth. I guess now it will have to go to a museum.  I wonder if a plastic one will last the same length of time?

Obviously pump attendant is having a week off from the Shell station at Brackley, as he is brain dead from the neck up.  This gives the Government regulations which explains you can have a maximum of 2 metal and 2 plastic fuel storage containers with caps off next to your oven  on your premises, but they must be outside your home.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petroleum-faqs.htm

But when did our government regulations apply to Spain?

I don't think they were ever a colony (despite the numbers of ex-pats hiding from the law living down there ))..

Would have thought it would be covered by an EU Directive?

[aaronjb]

I needed yet more unleaded for my chainsaw. Went to a different petrol station and out came the attendant.

Nice petrol can but it is made of metal. Can't (but will this once) let you put petrol in it!! next time you need a plastic can. A spark between filler nozzle and can could ignite fuel. Seemed reasonable enough.

I guess the law was changed at some time. I have had this green gallon Paddy Hopkirk can since 1972 I think. I remember buying it from Epic Accessories in Leicester so I have had my monies worth. I guess now it will have to go to a museum.  I wonder if a plastic one will last the same length of time?

Obviously pump attendant is having a week off from the Shell station at Brackley, as he is brain dead from the neck up.  This gives the Government regulations which explains you can have a maximum of 2 metal and 2 plastic fuel storage containers with caps off next to your oven  on your premises, but they must be outside your home.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petroleum-faqs.htm

But when did our government regulations apply to Spain?

I don't think they were ever a colony (despite the numbers of ex-pats hiding from the law living down there ))..

Would have thought it would be covered by an EU Directive?

Good point! Probably..