Demands for Maude to quit...

[kevin_cambs_uk]

God help us when this oil stuff starts to run out...........

 

[GrumpyGregry]

God help us when this oil stuff starts to run out...........

I rather think that has already happened.

 

[asterix]

The lady in question, suffered 40% burns. Snide remarks at her expense are a bit unfair to say the least. You would be amazed just how many members of the public do not know the dangers involved when handling petrol.

Hopefully she will make a full recovery.

Very true. We have a lot of very clever people on this forum but they should remember everyone can make mistakes or have a blank spot in their knowledge or just do something stupid under pressure. In this case I heard that the victim was trying to help her daughter who had run out of fuel.

(My stepson lives in the same part of York - it's not his wife unless they got the age wrong - and may well know the person concerned.)

 

[Simon1234]

How is it his fault? People say a lot of things, but you still have responsibility for your own actions! Oh, but we live in a blame society. No wonder we are in the c**p.

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[Norm]

Very true. We have a lot of very clever people on this forum but they should remember everyone can make mistakes or have a blank spot in their knowledge or just do something stupid under pressure. In this case I heard that the victim was trying to help her daughter who had run out of fuel.

Definitely +1 to that. What a nightmare she and her family must be facing.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

When I was a youth I worked in a garage for a short while. The foreman (Dave) used to smoke while filling tanks and being young and impressionable I copied him. We also had a couple of ciggies on the go one day while cleaning brake drums with a petrol soaked rag. By the grace of God we survived, but many years later in the local paper there was a story about a garage owner who had a lucky escape when a car he was working under caught fire, under mysterious circumstance. There above the article was a picture of the very same Dave...

 

[asterix]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9622958.Shock_at_news_of_woman_injured_in_petrol_blaze/

 

[Red Light]

I'd say she was an idiot. However, she is not the one paid a ministerial salary to not be an idiot, so Maude should definitely step down for issuing advice that was dangerous and illegal.

Regardless of her stupidity, would she have been doing this if Maude hadn't issued his advice? I'd say no, so I'm going to score it 85% her fault, 15% Maude's

Why was the advice dangerous or illegal? Garden sheds and garages up and down the country have petrol in cans for filling the mower. Is that dangerous or illegal?

Given she was doing it because her daughter's car had run out of petrol I suspect she would have been doing it regardless. Unless you think Maude's intervention caused the daughter to panic and drive around until she ran out of petrol.

Next:

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix in- of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.

This from ColinJ reminds me of an interview on Midlands Today a few years back where the Chief Fire Officer of West Midlands Fire Brigade stated firmly three times that "clothing for children must be inflammable by law". I wanted to give him a slap. How can someone in his position not know the difference between inflammable and non-flammable.

 

[Red Light]

Personally I think this has all been a rather clever move by the Government. They have created a minor panic rehearsal to remind people of what it will mean and help them in the run up to a strike. They have also moved as much fuel as is possible out of the depots into the forecourts and vehicles as they reasonable can before the link between the depot and the forecourt is cut by a strike. Most everyone now has full tanks and will keep them so, the forecourts will be replenished in the next day or two and the Government is as ready as it can be for the strike. Reminds me a bit of how Maggie crucially spent six months building stockpiles of coal at the power stations and coal yards before she picked a fight with the unions.

 

[Maz]

To be honest, I don't think most people realise that the fumes are flammable, rather believing that it is the liquid only that's flammable.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Interesting....I'd like to think that the current crop of politicians were clever enough to have planned this move but I fear that they aren't......

What do you mean "the current crop". I thought they were all like that.

 

[ufkacbln]

Why was the advice dangerous or illegal? Garden sheds and garages up and down the country have petrol in cans for filling the mower. Is that dangerous or illegal?

The advice was technically illegal and dangerous / unwise as it exceeds the legal domestic storage limit.

However it depends how you take the message, whether you take "jerry can"
1. As specifying a 5 gallon metal container,suitable for the storage of petrol
2. A generic description of a standard petrol can

The interpretation of the description could be debatable.

Mind you around the pubs here is a delightful story of a woman who put a rigid paddling pool in her van and got upset when the garage would not let her fill it!

Now it could be churlish to point out that Maude has not said you should not fill a swimming pool - so should certainly resign

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Mrs Rocky and I were talking about how Maggie had planned things before taking on the NUM and I think that she had a genuine strategic brain...whether or not you liked her. For the record, I didn't.

It's probably her that put me off politicians (or possibly Paul Marsden who couldn't decide which party to support).
I liked the Spitting Image sketch in the restaurant with the cabinet:
Maggie: I'll have a steak.
Waiter: And what about the vegetables?
Maggie: They'll have the same as me.

 

[benb]

Why was the advice dangerous or illegal? Garden sheds and garages up and down the country have petrol in cans for filling the mower. Is that dangerous or illegal?

Given she was doing it because her daughter's car had run out of petrol I suspect she would have been doing it regardless. Unless you think Maude's intervention caused the daughter to panic and drive around until she ran out of petrol.

Dangerous and illegal because a jerrycan exceeds the legal limit for storing fuel in a domestic situation.
Why do you suppose the fire service immediately issued advice to not do what he said - because they didn't want to deal with the horrific consequences of Maude's stupid comments.