Police on trail of 14c a litre petrol buyers

[Postie]

18.11.05 2.00pm

Motueka police have begun gathering information in an effort to recover about $1600 after a petrol pricing mistake at the Challenge Riwaka service station last month.

An amnesty for payment by 39 eftpos cardholders, whose accounts were used to buy petrol at just 14.4 cents a litre, expired last week. The case was passed to the police on Tuesday.
"At the moment, they are obtaining the information they need. It will probably be later this week or early next week when they will be in a position to contact card holders," Jan Cramond from the service station said yesterday.

Two more card holders have approached Challenge Riwaka since the amnesty ended, bringing the total recovered to about $1220.

Some had made arrangements to pay off the outstanding amounts over time, Mrs Cramond said.

[ktulu]

Thanks for the update mate.

I am sure there is a few lawyers around wanting to sink their teeth in to this one!

[Marmoot]

I think if a shop puts out the wrong price and charge the wrong amount, then the blame is with the shop.

That's my policy for my shop anyway.

[SimJen]

I reckon the servo should absorb the loss.....
Lawyers would have a fielday with it for sure, wasn't exactly stealing.......although it was obviously wrong and good honest people wouldn't abuse the situation.
Cops are pushing shit uphill as usual. Should concentrate on a real crime, but it will keep them off speeding bikers backs

[bugjuice]

"Some had made arrangements to pay off the outstanding amounts over time." Mrs Cramond said.

how much did they fuckin put in?!?!
And going from the mighty thread this first kicked off, can't they just say 'oh, didn't know I did it, and didn't notice the price thing...' and they get off it?

[Marmoot]

and whoever gets sued for theft should be able to sue the petrol station back for defamation.

[Lou Girardin]

Cops as debt collectors eh?
All the Nelson burglars must have been caught.

[sanchez]

I wonder how many car/bike theft cases are sitting around while they're chasing up this crap.

[WINJA]

FUCK THE PIGS ,ANYTHING BUT SOLVING CRIME I SPOSE

[Coyote]

As I said the last time around, the government own the police and the government like big buisness such as gas stations so they'll do whatever they can to help it. They've changed/made/broke laws to help them in the past

[Karma]

At the end of the day wouldn't you just pay up. Is it really worth all this fucking around for the sake of $40 worth of gas.

Anyone who brought the gas there would have been well aware of the price they were charged, and therefore I'd class it not as stealing perhaps, but immoral anyways.

Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

[aff-man]

For those that don't have $40....

I'm all for honesty but IMHO If the shop f**ked up they should bare the losses. hell duck the employee who messed up's pay for a few months

[Marmoot]

I'm all for honesty but IMHO If the shop f**ked up they should bare the losses. hell duck the employee who messed up's pay for a few months

exactly my point

[SimJen]

When it was first on the news, there were bills of a couple of hundred+. Looks like people filled up some big vehicles probably the first time they've been able to afford to.
I reckon the servo got off pretty lightly really, if only $1600 worth was bought.
I can imagine if it happened in AK or Hams it would be at least 10X that.

[Karma]

When it was first on the news, there were bills of a couple of hundred+. Looks like people filled up some big vehicles probably the first time they've been able to afford to.
I reckon the servo got off pretty lightly really, if only $1600 worth was bought.
I can imagine if it happened in AK or Hams it would be at least 10X that.

This is what I'm talking about.

An honest mistake where you only got $20 or something isn't much. But if you're filling up $200 then you're taking advantage of someone elses mistake, and at this point you realise you're entering into a fraudulent agreement.

Opinions are gonna be divided on this one... guess it's just a question of morality. It's like those people that'll give you 20c for a comic or something, knowing full well it's worth $3000.