Oh, I'm sure they just forgot!

Giving away free petrol in Devon and Cornwall it seems.  Not exactly, but the local police force has said that it will no longer treat driving away without paying for your petrol as a crime unless there is "obvious proof of criminal intent".  Difficult to see how more obvious you could be than filling up and then driving off without paying! Of course the real reason is that they haven't got the manpower to cope and so they have to prioritise.  They would say that the petrol station owner has recourse to the civil courts to get his money back but that's an expensive business with no guarantee of success. So like I say - free petrol!