Photograph your petrol station. A call to arms

My local petrol station is a windswept concrete slab, covered in detritus and surrounded by construction fencing since the bushfires. No price board to see, but there was a healthy looking fig tree sprouting in the corner a couple of years ago.

Thanks for acting on the suggestion, but don’t you trust your contributors just to contribute the prices without a photo?

Diesel at BP Queanbeyan Yass Road this evening 144.9 I think (same as I paid on Sunday). Airport Caltex 148.9.

IP

goggles13 said :

KB1971 said :

How about we all just go & take a photo of the board at the BP Phillip…..

when is that servo due to reopen?

It’s open now.
I got petrol there on Sunday night (E10 @ 139.9).
It was 15c/L cheaper than Weston, though only 7c cheaper if you had a Woolies discount at Weston (i.e. 154.9 and 146.9c/L respectively).
And don’t start up about the E10 petrol please! 🙂

Barcham scary? although he does resemble Ares(albeit ostensibly) 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1VKNN3iGE

Apparently people who run petrol stations don’t like it when you take photos of them. While I was trying to get a shot of the 711 a worker ran out and asked “Any reason you are taking a photo of this petrol station?”

I tried to explain I just needed a photo of the prices but he cut me off with a “Who do you work for?” and a “Why are you doing this?”

I managed to blurt out that I just needed the prices and that I worked in news (I figured I’d keep my job description nice and simple), but he was a bit too excited to pay attention.

I had to say it a few times before he listened. Once I got through to him though he seemed happy and went back inside, leaving me to wonder what kind of people usually take photos of a petrol station, and what danger they pose. Corporate espionage? Thieves casing the joint?

I like a good mystery in the morning!

In all honesty he seemed more afraid than angry… maybe I’m just scary?

KB1971 said :

How about we all just go & take a photo of the board at the BP Phillip…..

when is that servo due to reopen?

FXST01 said :

DrKoresh said :

What exactly happened to poor Barcham? Perhaps he would like to enlighten us with his own account of events, maybe with a few dramatic embellishments?

Maybe he is too distraught to talk at the moment.

Maybe he needs a hug? Better call a pro.

How about we all just go & take a photo of the board at the BP Phillip…..

DrKoresh said :

What exactly happened to poor Barcham? Perhaps he would like to enlighten us with his own account of events, maybe with a few dramatic embellishments?

Maybe he is too distraught to talk at the moment.

Ooh, I have my “professional-style” camera with me today…