ImperatorMatty

Most of us are imperial anyway. Being 6ft8 and 22stone 11lb with a 42inch waist and nipping down the shop which is 1 mile away to buy a pint of milk.

For me Brexit wasn't about imperial measurements it was about accountability and Sovereignty. Something we are about to sign away to the WHO.
Just another distraction imo.

THE BACK

Lovely piece of silver art

I can only touch myself furiously 100 times a day now. Bog roll getting less and I have have to fit in the odd dump or 4. The girlfriend caught me wiping my plonker on the curtains forteen times last week becuase lack of lav roll and cost, shrinkflation. The curtains like cardboard now. More like foldable blinds!

The way I understand it, the guy was right:
He took petrol from the tank into his car.
The petrol now becomes his property, and he owes the station a debt.
He offered to pay his debt in legal tender.
The station refused this payment.
So far everything above is fine and legal.
The station then required him to sign a "No means to pay" form.
But, he did have means to pay, it was legal tender.
The police charged him for making off without payment, but he tried to pay in legal tender.
The only two options that the petrol station had were to:
A) Accept the coins, whether other individuals, banks and businesses accept them or not
B ) Refuse the coins, but simultaneously void the debt, as the debtor has offered to pay in legal tender
They can't refuse the legal tender and then sue for non payment or making off without paying
 
 
 

The real crux of this issue is that the coins in question are legal tender and the "villain of the peace" in this saga had a letter from tesco confirming they were happy to accept these coins.
Assuming that part is true, he had every right to proceed as he did and fill up his car, with the intention of using the coin to pay.
Anything else is irrelevant.

I have mixed feelings about what he did. He was obviously fishing for this ideal scenario, however they did take a big, fat bite of his bait!
That being said, the Police fired the first salvo at Joe public when it comes to using legal, but underhanded tactics, particularly when fining someone £100 for going 3 mph over the speed limit by sneakily putting a speed camera at the bottom of a hill, or hiding a speed van in an odious ploy to generate revenue (using technology that has sometimes proven to be inaccurate with false readings) so if someone is also slyly operating within the confines of the law, then they too have no right to bully or criticise him.
As a general rule of thumb, I have the utmost respect for the Police, however they have recently been prioritising minor offences, bending their knees to fringe groups and allowing yobs to block roads. Oddly, they were able to muster whole squads of officers to forcibly arrest people for daring to keep their livelihood open during a lockdown, though? 
The only real crime here is that the taxpayer has been shafted due to the hubris of a bully armed with a badge, who should have brushed up on his knowledge of the law before enforcing what he ignorantly believed was correct.

I have mixed feelings about what he did. He was obviously fishing for this ideal scenario, however they did take a big, fat bite of his bait!
That being said, the Police fired the first salvo at Joe public when it comes to using legal, but underhanded tactics, particularly when fining someone £100 for going 3 mph over the speed limit by sneakily putting a speed camera at the bottom of a hill, or hiding a speed van in an odious ploy to generate revenue (using technology that has sometimes proven to be inaccurate with false readings) so if someone is also slyly operating within the confines of the law, then they too have no right to bully or criticise him.
As a general rule of thumb, I have the utmost respect for the Police, however they have recently been prioritising minor offences, bending their knees to fringe groups and allowing yobs to block roads. Oddly, they were able to muster whole squads of officers to forcibly arrest people for daring to keep their livelihood open during a lockdown, though? 
The only real crime here is that the taxpayer has been shafted due to the hubris of a bully armed with a badge, who should have brushed up on his knowledge of the law before enforcing what he ignorantly believed was correct.

I have mixed feelings about what he did. He was obviously fishing for this ideal scenario, however they did take a big, fat bite of his bait!
That being said, the Police fired the first salvo at Joe public when it comes to using legal, but underhanded tactics, particularly when fining someone £100 for going 3 mph over the speed limit by sneakily putting a speed camera at the bottom of a hill, or hiding a speed van in an odious ploy to generate revenue (using technology that has sometimes proven to be inaccurate with false readings) so if someone is also slyly operating within the confines of the law, then they too have no right to bully or criticise him.
As a general rule of thumb, I have the utmost respect for the Police, however they have recently been prioritising minor offences, bending their knees to fringe groups and allowing yobs to block roads. Oddly, they were able to muster whole squads of officers to forcibly arrest people for daring to keep their livelihood open during a lockdown, though? 
The only real crime here is that the taxpayer has been shafted due to the hubris of a bully armed with a badge, who should have brushed up on his knowledge of the law before enforcing what he ignorantly believed was correct.

i notice how the smart arse didn't try to pay for it with a £100 gold Britannia 1oz gold coin just to prove his point -  

The police wasted their own time. They should quickly have realised they were in the wrong instead of being pig-headed and wasting tax payers money. This is an increasing tendency of the police to act in this way, they seem to think they are unaccountable.

Not to derail the topic at all but does anyone else wish they’d abandon rose gold in favour of the more pleasant mix that the older sovereigns had? Wishful thinking I know but I can’t help but feel the new ones look too much like shiny pennies!