A severe case of Petrol Head!
Petrol addict banned from shops:
A man with an addiction to sniffing petrol has been banned from every Asda store after being caught cutting fuel pump pipes.
Brian Taylor, 36, has also been banned from going within 15 metres of any filling station on Teesside.
Taylor terrorised supermarket staff and customers after sniffing petrol and cutting pipes at Asda in the South Bank area and dancing around the forecourt.
Teesside Magistrates Court heard customers had been soaked in petrol.
Cleveland Police and Redcar and Cleveland Council applied for an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) which was granted at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Taylor, of no fixed address, was also banned from carrying petrol in a public place for the duration of the four-year order.
Supermarket CCTV footage caught him in the act and police believe he could have been responsible for around 50 incidents in the last two years.
Sgt Bryan Tams said: "The major concern is that when he has been cutting the pipes, customers have not noticed the cut and some have been soaked in petrol.
"There were obvious dangers involved in his actions and a risk to safety.
"We have concerns for his own health and are trying to find ways of addressing his addiction to petrol which doesn't get him into trouble."
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..Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) which was granted..
Cutting fuel pump pipes and he gets an ASBO?
>"We have concerns for his own health and are trying to find ways of addressing
>his addiction to petrol which doesn't get him into trouble."
Benzene is highly carcinogenic. I think the court should have been more concerned about the effects of his actions on other members of the public who "had been soaked in petrol."
Many (if not all) petrol pumps in the US have fume extraction hoods around the nozzle to reduce the release of such compounds for both health and environmental reasons.
Kevin...
PS. A word of warning about fuels. A few years ago I was setting off for a series of meetings in Germany and decided to fill up my Zippo before I left. There's nothing worse for a smoker than having plenty of cigarettes and nothing to light them with. I dropped the Zippo in my jeans pocket and went on my merry way.
About halfway through the flight I began to feel a slight tingling in my crotch. Fifteen minutes later it was getting worse and starting to burn and I realised what had happened. I'd overfilled the Zippo and it was leaking. I took it out of my pocket but unfortunately the damage had already been done. I was walking like John Wayne for over a week!
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BANNED, YOU SILLY FUEL
A gas-gulping petrol addict has been banned from every petrol station in his home town for guzzling four star petrol straight from the pump.
Brian Taylor has been sneaking onto forecourts and slashing pipes to get his fill of fuel and the toxic chemicals that give him a high.
The 36-year-old has even been caught on security cameras sipping on his favourite tipple before breaking into a dance.
Police have said he has also been known to mix his drinks - having four star and diesel in the same binge.
But doctors say Taylor, of no fixed address, is risking wrecking his central nervous system, heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and bone marrow to get his fix.
Fed up with his fuelling around, magistrates have tried to cut Taylor's habit by issuing him with an anti-social behaviour order and have even banned him from carrying a petrol can in public.
A court in Teesside heard that Taylor, from Middlesborough, has swigged petrol from his local Asda 51 times and has cost the supermarket chain £6,000 in damage and loss of fuel.
When worried staff tried to stop him, he became aggressive and intimidating, magistrates heard.
Sergeant Brian Tams, of Cleveland Police, said: "He has become a nuisance and stinks of petrol. He's got a big problem with it and so do we.
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At least he didn't hold an apple while going around a corner.
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One day he'll meet his match, there'll be a big bang and the problem will go away in a flash.
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Don't know who he works for, but I bet he gets fired!
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I wonder what would of happend if this bloke drank a tank full of shell optimax?? Would his reactions be any quicker or will it clean out his insides? He might run a bit faster lol!!!
Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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Why the problem wih an ASBO ?
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He should be locked away in a mad-house like these people used to be, not roaming around wrecking what was one a pleasant civilised society - liberal-left doo-gooders and Tory cost-cutters have a lot to answer for, care in the community? What community?
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He should be locked away in a mad-house like these people used to be, not roaming around wrecking what was one a pleasant civilised society - liberal-left doo-gooders and Tory cost-cutters have a lot to answer for, care in the community? What community?
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How very un-PC of you.
How very true.
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And if you're addicted to petrol and cigarettes?
Cheers, Sofa SpuBOOOOOOM
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cant imagine he will live very long if he is actually drinking petrol i mean what is it doing to his internal organs, and if he is drinking it he must be highly flamable, but so will his waste product seems too crazy ...cheers...keo
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Im suprised he hasnt gone up as well Spud! Just make sure its not near the filling station!
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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