Dishonest people at the Z gas station, Mt. Wellington

[davereid]

I wonder if bars were missing from the LCD.
It could be 88.88 on the pump but only showing some other figure.
We have a clock down the road and it said 7:1C this morning as I went past at 8:00

Yeah good point.

The numbers would be correct inside, but at the pump display could be random. Even the bang from hanging the pump could knock them enough to come right.

[oneofsix]

Yeah good point.

The numbers would be correct inside, but at the pump display could be random. Even the bang from hanging the pump could knock them enough to come right.

LCD on a clock is one, non-important, thing. The LCD on the pump is the customer's only indication of cost and therefore important. If the LCD on the pump is damaged the pump should be out of service. Of course this probably takes one of the customers to complain to the attendant as the attendant wont be on the forecourt to notice this for themselves.

[sil3nt]

The BP I usually use has been closed the last 3 weeks after they found fuel was getting mixed in the tanks. God knows how that happened but they have had to dig up all the tanks. Will cost them millions but the next closest station is 2.6km away and its shit so they don't really have any competition.

[Drew]

why would you hope it was someone other than the service station. It is the service stations certificate of compliance or licence to dispense and like all such certificates the receiver pays. The supermarket has to pay to have it's scales similarly certified. Of course in the end the consumer pays.

Because the certificate vendor shows up whenever tickles his fancy according to the post I quoted. It should be part of the stations rates, at a set amount according to resource consent given to the business.

How I see it anyway.

[oneofsix]

Because the certificate vendor shows up whenever tickles his fancy according to the post I quoted. It should be part of the stations rates, at a set amount according to resource consent given to the business.

How I see it anyway.

True the certificate check is without notice, same as a restaurant's council food safety inspection, but both will be part of their annual operating expenses, they pay for it to occur sometime in the year they just don't know when it will occur so they can't clean-up their act just for the inspection. This is for your benefit in that you know the servos measures are correct but the servo has to pay for the check if it wants to sell fuel. The whole scheme goes back to the middle ages and ensuring shop traders weren't using plugged weights, used to have to have the kings mark on their weights.

[jasonu]

I wonder if bars were missing from the LCD.
It could be 88.88 on the pump but only showing some other figure.
We have a clock down the road and it said 7:1C this morning as I went past at 8:00

That is about the most believable explanation I have read to this point.

[avgas]

That is about the most believable explanation I have read to this point.

But its not a conspiracy you see.
Doesn't sound as good as petrol dispensing companies ripping of the working man. Or EMP blasting truck radios.
Now those are stories you can bullshit your kids with.

[Drew]

But its not a conspiracy you see.
Doesn't sound as good as petrol dispensing companies ripping of the working man. Or EMP blasting truck radios.
Now those are stories you can bullshit your kids with.

My EMP trigger has a warning on it. "May cause disruption in cell phone coverage, watch operation, and fuel dispensing device meters".

[Zedder]

Perhaps the Gerbil could revisit the station and carry out further investigation.

[Drew]

Perhaps the Gerbil could revisit the station and carry out further investigation.

I think he prefers to live in his imagined world, and keeps his visits to reality as brief as possible.