Garage bans gas-guzzler

The fuel-ish things petrolheads will do...

By PH Staff / Friday, 4 February 2005 / Loading comments

A petrol-drinking addict has been banned from going into his favourite supermarket after slicing through the store's petrol pump fuel pipes.

Local magistrates applied for and got an ASBO -- anti-social behaviour order -- following incidents where Brian Taylor terrified supermarket staff and customers after having cut pipes, sniffed and drank petrol, and danced around the forecourt of an Asda petrol station while high on fumes.

He was caught in the act on CCTV. The local police sergeant said that the police's main concern was that, when pipes were cut, customers had not noticed until they were soaked in petrol, raising obvious safety issues.

The court heard that there had been 51 similar incidents and that Taylor had cost the chain £6,000 in damage and lost fuel. Taylor was banned from being seen in public with a petrol can, and cannot go anywhere near any filling station on Teeside.

The police added that Taylor, of no fixed abode, was mixing his drinks -- socking back both four-star and diesel, although his favourite tipple is unleaded. There's a lesson for us all...