What happens when a police officer gets the law completely wrong?
In this video, a UK police sergeant is seen threatening to arrest a driver at a petrol station pump. The issue? The driver filled his car with £60 of diesel and attempted to pay using a genuine, Royal Mint-issued £100 silver commemorative coin. The supermarket staff refused to accept the coin and called the police, leading to the dramatic stand-off caught on camera.
Is it legal? Here is the actual law:
The answer is both yes and no, depending on who you look at:
Could the shop refuse the coin? Generally, yes. While the coin is technically "legal tender" under the Coinage Act 1971, contract law allows a private business to decide which payment methods they prefer. However, because the fuel was already inside the car, a debt had been created. Legally, a business cannot "pick and choose" payment methods after the fact unless they clearly state their exclusions on the pump before you fill up.
Was it a criminal offence? Absolutely NOT. The officer arrested the driver for "Making Off Without Payment" (Theft Act 1978). To commit this crime, a person must dishonestly run away to avoid paying the bill. The driver wasn't running, hiding, or acting dishonestly—he was standing right there actively trying to hand over cash worth more than the fuel!
The Result: Because the police treated a civil contract dispute as a criminal theft, the arrest was entirely unlawful. The driver later took legal action against the police force, winning a formal apology and a £5,000 settlement.
Evil is not a red-faced devil with horns.
Evil is a liberal woman laughing at the idea of little white girls being raped by foreigners.
This is the face of evil.
Some Rotherham councillors knew in 1999. By 2011 his crimes were openly discussed in Labour Party meetings I attended. We were always told to keep quiet
I asked Sadiq Khan if there were grooming gangs in London and what he was doing about it.
He answered by implying the very question was racist and Islamophobic, then I was silenced by the chairman.
(June 2020)
Nigel Farage is an Agent of the State and #Reform is controlled opposition.
When the cameras stopped rolling, someone knew what was coming and caught it on their mobile phone for all!
These UniParty traitors deserve only one house, the Jail House.
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They intentionally used children as bait. Then once the Muslims were there, they let them rape thousands of these same children. Everyone who enables this should be hung.
This vile politician is an absolute disgrace. I hope you can all see why we at The Rape Gang Inquiry refused to work with her. Her only interest was money, and she has spent the last year doing everything in her power to undermine the inquiry.
Despicable.
In December 2025, illegal migrants in the audience asked questions directed at @ZiaYusufUK.
The Telegraph has now revealed that Imix, a charity that works to “build support for migration,” reportedly coached them in advance.
They were plants, the BBC is yet again a disgrace.
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There’s never been such a morally corrupt Government as this one.
Labour tried to postpone local elections to avoid losing. Now they are fiddling the voting system in Manchester.
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A reminder that the BBC’s Emily Maitlis could have condemned the monstrous child rapists operating in grooming gangs.
Instead, she chose to defend them AND call us racists.
Those BBC “stars” have something in common.
Why so much force? He’s only filming! 👮♀️😡🏴🇬🇧
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A journalist tries to film the police after they throw a 17 year old boy into a metal bollard with so much force it “bends” …the police don’t want him filming the incident close up so they use force against the journalist 😳👮♀️😡🏴🇬🇧
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