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Re: Total garage - non payment and taking thumbprints....??

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From: half_pint
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:13

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"Dave C." <spammersdie@slowlyandpainfully.com> wrote in message news:<tYzE9.1084$ta5.219715@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> "crofters" <crofterscan> wrote in message
> news:aruh7j$q24$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > x-no-archive: yes
> >
> > (btw, I paid for my gas!)
> >
> > filling up today, i saw a small notice on the pump warning about having
> > means
> > to pay before drawing fuel etc, and that they are instructed by local
> > (sussex)
> > police to take your photo and thumbprint, should you not pay within an
> > agreed
> > period.
> >
> > wouldn't this be against some human rights, or privacy laws? thought only
> > the
> > police had authority to take prints, and only then when arrested, not
> > before...
> >
> > also, who holds the information, and for how long? someone could easily
> > forget a wallet, and get a police record!
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I don't know about UK, but in the U.S., (unfortunately) the non-paying
> customer could use any legal means necessary to defend themselves from the
> kidnapper if you tried to hold them against their will.  There are citizens
> arrest provisions over here, but the above situation doesn't apply.  -Dave

Surely the sensible thing to do would be to syphon the petrol back?

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