Now, on first viewing the shot and title may seem a little tenuous!
Last week, with the threat of a fuel tanker drivers strike sometime in the future our esteemed Prime Minister and one of his Cabinet colleagues both advised the British people to fill up their tanks and Jerry Cans.
This caused panic buying of fuel and queues of an hour at some petrol stations, and eventually, many stations, including my local one, ran out of fuel for a few days!
People who did not fill up were ringing into radio stations wondering how they could get away on their Easter break.
The tanker drivers strike hasn't happened and probably will not happen.
So fear not everyone, the country is in safe hands.......
@lesip Thanks Leslie. I wonder if we get the politicians we deserve, but these two really qualified for the "Dumb and Dumber" tag. I nearly called the photo "Dumb and Dumber!"
That's a great photo-journalism angle. We saw stories of people who burned themselves with the petrol in the jerry cans because they mishandled them. Just silly business.
@ozziehoffy@sheliwithani Thanks guys, Esso is still a dominant brand over here Cassandra. Yes, that is what happened Sheli, though reports say that the accident happened while the lady was cooking tea in here kitchen! Still a terrible thing to happen to anyone though and I hope that she makes some form of recovery.
