Just how stupid can people be?

Zennomore

I wonder how much fuel they wasted following the “tanker” ?

They drove about 70 miles from Bilston to Overstone which I imagine is about an hour's drive or more. Maybe not all of them I suppose if the convoy increased en route.

Just how stupid can people be? Is the thread title. Have a look at the
‘Should I wear a mask’ thread.
Answers the question completely.
Could add selfish to that too.

I wonder how much fuel they wasted following the “tanker” ?

It is horrible to run out of fuel.
Many of us really need our cars to function.
My mother-in-law for example lives alone and is elderly. We do need to go over pretty regularly - and some people need care 3 or 4 times a day.

Two days ago I went into the express Tesco, near it is the slip-road and it is right beside the petrol garage. The garage is taped off and had no fuel.
A silly man parked near the pumps and his lights were on and he ran into the garage shop. I watched with a smile on my face
as 3 cars quickly started to queue behind him thinking they were in luck and had found some fuel. They quickly realized
the pumps all said empty and they drove off.
It is not funny really I suppose I can't even find petrol myself
but they were so fast to queue behind him only to find no fuel available.

LauraNorder???

Such stupidity deserves that pot of clay result but thank you for sharing this as it caused me to smile, albeit in a kind of despair.

The full story.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58767230

LauraNorder

Fancy berating the driver, he’s not going to cement good relationships with that attitude.
Mortar the point he should have come up with a concrete proposal for signage on lorries.

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Mamacaz I m surprised they didn’t tell you to go slower
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One male motorist said he had been driving for more than three hours looking for fuel and was "furious"

"When asked how much fuel he'd used looking for petrol, he finally appeared to grasp the lack of solid ground his argument stood upon," the policing team added.

what the hell??

Fancy berating the driver, he’s not going to cement good relationships with that attitude.
Mortar the point he should have come up with a concrete proposal for signage on lorries.

When we were once moving a narrowboat for someone, it became obvious that there wasnt enough diesel in the tank for us to get to a marina to buy some.

Another boater assured us that we could put in vegetable oil, and it would get us on the move again.

It worked!

So, if your car needs diesel and you decide in desperation to follow a tanker, keep your fingers crossed that if it isn't carrying diesel, it turns out to be carrying vegetable oil

Talking of stupid, two 60+ male neighbours of ours, plus a sibling living elsewhere locally, all recently had COVID, were very ill and in hospital for 2-3 weeks each.

All were unvaccinated - not for any medical reason, but because they ‘weren’t sure’.

We just had a note through the door, thanking us for our concern, but adding, ‘Those who are vaccinated still get COVID so I don’t know what the answer is.’

I know it will be of no use whatever to go round and say, ‘But at least there would have been a good chance that you wouldn’t have been nearly so ill, not to mention all of you taking up hospital beds for two weeks plus!’

But honestly, it does make you despair.

Made my day, this one.

In my area, most of the tankers we see are carrying raw spirit, molasses or yet to be blended whisky to or from distilleries. Yet to hear of one being hijacked!

I see your "following a mortar truck" H1954 and raise you a "queueing at a closed petrol station."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-58721650

It sounds like something out of a Carry On film.

You could be following an empty tanker on its way back to the depot. What an encounter that could be!

Maybe they were desperate? I know it's a funny story but I can imagine if you had been desperate for fuel you might follow a likely tanker. It detracts from the very real problems we have just now.

So all tankers on the roads must display "We are not carrying petrol".
Please don't follow an Army tanker; you could end up on a firing range.

[Grin]

But I cant help wondering if the driver genuinely 'berated' the driver, or if irony was intended.

stupid doesn't begin to sum that up does it.

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