British cops spend taxpayers money for repeated fuel mishaps

Nobody ever said you had to be a genius to be a police officer. But then again, being stupid isn’t part of the job description either.

That’s the prevailing thought on British police officers these days. The bad thing is, it’s not as if they’re being asked to solve global warming or world hunger, but rather, just put the right type of fuel in their patrol cars.

In the past three years, British police officers have confused the type of fuel they put in their cars a total of 4,709 times. If basic mathematics isn’t a problem for you, you’d know that that’s about four patrol cars per day.

The problem with putting the wrong fuel type not only means that the fuel – already expensive, in its own right – has to be drained. In addition to that, the unfortunate engines that have been filled with the wrong fuel are subjected to repairs, further increasing the bills that, incidentally, tax payers have to pay.

If you’re a British taxpayer, that’s not a very comforting fact to face. You pay taxes just so these people have the money to fix their idiocy. While you’re at it, why not just send these cops to school!

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