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[Nickbat]

...oh, I dunno. Just fill it up with that one over there.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23913876-pound-62000-cost-of-wrong-fuel-in-police-cars.do

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Poliice officers are constantly filling up their tanks with fuel during all hours of night and day, for all different patrol vehicles, and 332 times over 7 years is a very small percentage of those fill-ups. 

It is of course unfortunate, yes and a waste of £62K, but humans do ocassionally make these errors no matter what.

I am sure now they will be even more careful

[Debs.]

  All that public money wasted!

What`s wrong with having a big, old fashioned decals/stickers:

[size=15]Diesel Fuel Only[/size]

[Dishevelled Den]

I would discipline any officer doing this.

At one time assuming responsibility for an official vehicle was a solemn duty when the driver ensured that the vehicle was fit to be driven and the log-book properly completed by the previous driver.

I have seen instances where hundreds of miles were left unaccounted for in squad vehicles when lazy bastaads never bothered their arses entering details of either driver or journey.

They must be doing everything but actually driving the vehicle now. (With all that it implies)

[markfree]

If they haven't got the brain cells to determine wether to put diesel/petrol in their cars then they shouldn't be in the police force.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Poliice officers are constantly filling up their tanks with fuel during all hours of night and day, for all different patrol vehicles, and 332 times over 7 years is a very small percentage of those fill-ups. 

It is of course unfortunate, yes and a waste of £62K, but humans do ocassionally make these errors no matter what.

I am sure now they will be even more careful

To put that more into perspective, Essex Police employ 3,600 officers.

So over 7 years, and just 332 "mistakes" I make that a small percentage of error.

Now, who has never made mistakes in their career or private life??

[Kevin Wood]

If they haven't got the brain cells to determine wether to put diesel/petrol in their cars then they shouldn't be in the police force.

.. or on the roads, for that matter.

It's hardly rocket science, after all. 

Kevin

[albitz]

I have never put the wrong fuel in my car, and the only person I know who has was drunk at the time.
Almost no half sensible private motorists will ever do it because they would face a big bill to put the damage right.
Could be something to do with an attitude of "money grows on trees outside the treasury" which seems to have permeated a lot of areas of life which is funded by the taxpayer in recent times ?
I dont know about other forces, but this has been a problem in Essex for a long time.I can remember the press getting hold of it about 5 years ago, and senior managemnet had to issue a general warning to officers to make sure they didnt do it.
The warning obviously wasnt stern enough.

[zirk]

God help them if they ever get issued with LPG cars.
 

[HolyCount]

At one time a garage local to me ( no longer there) used to have a recorded warning in it's diesel pumps ... as soon as the nozzle was lifted a voice would boom (loudly), "Caution, this is a diesel pump". Quite good at first, but, as it didn't shut up until you had finished filling the tank, it soon got bl**dy annoying!!!

[Shackeng]

Now that enough time has passed, and my embarrassment has somewhat subsided, I can own up. I did it!
Fortunately it was on a nice warm day during the summer.

My only excuse is that I was definitely set up.
Foolishly filling up at a large supermarket, which has all the pumps close together, I lifted the nozzle out of the DIESEL holder, and pumped away, thinking about the work I was about to undertake. Unfortunately, the tank only had a couple of gallons in it, so I put about 50 ltrs of petrol in. If all the nozzles had been correctly positioned in their holders, it would not have been possible to operate the nozzle I had in my tank.

After I had sorted my problem a mile or so later - siphoning the  tank into a collection of plastic cans, topping up with a couple of gallons of diesel, removing the filter and refilling with diesel, - I went back to T****'s to see how I could have made what, as Kevin says, is a stupid mistake. What had been done was certainly deliberate, the diesel and petrol nozzles had clearly been swapped in their adjacent holders, and the diesel nozzle just balanced such that the petrol holder it was 'in' would still pump. Stupid design, which allowed a stupid mistake.

Yes I know, I should have noticed the green decal on the nozzle, but as said I was miles away as I pumped, and quite happy in the knowledge that it came from the correct holder.

You have been warned, there are some a@?&hol;s around, so check not only the pump, but the nozzle in it.

On the plus side, it happened to me, and I am quite capable of sorting it out, and not some hapless individual driving an expensive car, which would have cost a fortune to fix. And SWMBO's Jazz had lots of extra - if slightly oily - petrol to use.

I was concerned that I may have damaged the injector pump bearings, but after 3000 miles, all seems well.

[Webby the Bear]

im not being funny but this aint 'an honest mistake and it is a lot.

roughly it works out that one officer does it once a week!!!!!!!!!!

[Webby the Bear]

lol

337 incidents divided by 7 years equals 47.428

....... so almost one a week

[Lizzie_Zoom]

lol

337 incidents divided by 7 years equals 47.428

....... so almost one a week

But in the context of Essex Police employing 3,600+ officers, then it is a far smaller percentage than you are suggesting

In business mistakes happen, and sometimes very expensive ones, but that his the nature of humans!

[Webby the Bear]

oh sorry yeah i see what you mean 

still sounds a bloody lot though!!!!!

the police rang my mate tuesday night to say they'd just chased some kids who had stolen his motorbike and that he couldnt collect it until 48 hours had passed. and they are charging him 205 quid and ten quid for everyday he hasn't collected it.

thats not the funniest thing though...... when they rang him they said they couldnt do anything as he had to report it himself.... so they got him to hang up, ring back and give the details of the theft like who informed him the bike was stolen...... '' erm youve just called me to tell me'' hahahahahahaa