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

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From: IGK
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:22

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"crofters" <crofterscan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> x-no-archive: yes
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> (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.
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> 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!
>
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>
If you think that's tough in a local (Kent) paper last week a lady with two
young kids filled up then noticed that she had no money so the petrol
station manager demanded that she *leave* one of her kids as security until
she went to get the �20 for petrol!!! I believe this was a total garage (in
Sittingbourne) luckily her partner turned up with money.  igk.

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