Shell Station and a nice lady looking after a biker

[Mikkel]

Yup - these days no-service station is the more appropriate term.

You can still find the other kind though. The no-hassles, no-bullshit service stations.

[jtzzr]

Awesome start to the day/week !!...I hope the lady had a `GREAT 'day too.


Pass the karma on Tank

I hope the bitch at the servo gets her karma too , fuckin cow (regardless of policy,rules are meant to be bent/broken).

[ynot slow]

As they say what goes round comes round,you must have done something to help people out over time,and it is karma returned.Way to go except the servo hitler.

[Slicksta]

Yeah shell did use to have a policy (when i worked there) were you could fill out a form and pay later but it was abused so they ended it. I still let genuine people who couldnt pay come back its easy to tell....

[Forest]

Helped out a distressed young woman with no cash on hand whose car was getting winched onto a towtruck.....the towie wanted $50 right there and then to let it go, I paid it for her and she promised to get it back to me next day.

Name: false
Address: false
Txt: No response.

BITCH

no..I didnt get the rego...not that it would help. I feel dirty and used.

I wouldn't worry too much.

She may have been a bitch, but you are a gentleman!

[carver]

Yeah shell did use to have a policy (when i worked there) were you could fill out a form and pay later but it was abused so they ended it. I still let genuine people who couldnt pay come back its easy to tell....

but you could not tell after excessive drug/alcohol use!

[wickle]

It ought to be enough for the attendant to sight your driver's license and take down the license number...

In that case the driver/rider has been identified and whether the vehicle is yours or not won't be an issue as well.

Sounds like you're on good foot with Karma Sir Tank! Good on the lady in the 4x4 (not something I say often btw)

Not worth a tinkers! We dont take cellphones, licence, bank cards , spare wheels jacks etc. Goods that are are a nescessary are good childs saftey seat ,power tools lots of modern cages have sound system that always get returned for ( if not most of weekend staff are bidding for ) Tank would of got seven days credit with that much collatal from us.

[rottiguy]

Bummer, should have got her undies as a down payment

Helped out a distressed young woman with no cash on hand whose car was getting winched onto a towtruck.....the towie wanted $50 right there and then to let it go, I paid it for her and she promised to get it back to me next day.

Name: false
Address: false
Txt: No response.

BITCH

no..I didnt get the rego...not that it would help. I feel dirty and used.

[Skyryder]

Service stations have forms to fill in for just this sort of thing. For some attendent to threaten to call the police needs to be adressed by Shell managment. I suggest you write them a letter explaining 'exactly' what took place.

Skyryder

PS
Seems Shell has changed it's policy. I'd still write a letter.

[themechanics]

good ta no there is still sum good samaratins in gd ol nz

[Solly]

Awesome start to the day/week !!...I hope the lady had a `GREAT 'day too.


Pass the karma on Tank

I hope the bitch at the servo gets her karma too , fuckin cow (regardless of policy,rules are meant to be bent/broken).

Of course she had a great start to the day.....she just hugged a soggy biker!!!

Tank, you going back there again??......and do pay it forward.

[Brooke]

That's pretty awesome about that lady. She must have been in Auckland for business or something surely

[Creeping Death]

I woulda taken ya blackberry and told ya NOT to come back!and made sure you left the charger too...just in case...

[MarkH]

Man, when I started reading the story I was hoping that the police would be called and you would have to wait for them to arrive and then get to explain your situation. I would love to know the response from an officer of the law upon arriving at that situation.
Geez, a guy offering to leave photo ID and expensive items - seems like a no brainer for the service station manager, who co-incidentally seems to have no brains.

I have once managed to fill my car then realise that I did not have my wallet with me. I explained to the (BP) service station manager that a return trip to my home would take less than 10 minutes, he got me to write down my name, address and license # (I think) and I drove off, returning less than 10 minutes later and paying. I still use that service station and always check that I have my wallet before pumping the gas.

[MarkH]

The problem is that the service station can't legally do anything with them - as they still technically belong to the people who left them at the counter.

Very much a no-win situation.

Rubbish - if the owners don't return in a week then the staff can take it home - who's to say otherwise? It would only be illegal if they involved the law and got an opinion, if they just take the stuff home and say nothing then the law has better things to worry about it.

If they were to take the items to a police station and explain the situation then the police would probably treat it as lost property - if unclaimed for 6 months the service station owner would then become the legal owner of that property. But who would bother with that?

If I were the service station owner or manager I would gladly hold onto anything offered that was worth clearly more than the petrol. I would also get the name, address, license number & number plate. I would tell the person that if they didn't come back that day then their details would be passed onto the police. If some customer left an iPod or cellphone or digital camera or whatever then it would be unusual for them not to return.