At about 02:00 in the morning I was pulled by the Police while riding a bike with no lights carrying a can with about 2 litres of U/L petrol, 1/2 litre of parafin and about another half litre of anything liquid and inflamable.
They were on their way to see someone who saw suspicious activity a mile up the road.
Well when you run out of petrol you will go towards houses with lights on to see if they have some go juice. If they keep on and off their lights they will see strange behaviour

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The Police saw them and waited for me, and saw me off - they had chatted about Mr light switcher and I think they agreed that they were pillocks, they were scared but then they were encouraging me.
They though my predicament was funny - I ran out two miles from home by road about 1.5 direct. Walked home, syphoned out of my bike and chucked anything flammable in I could to get to a nearby petrol station in the morning