Skip to main content

VIDEO: Piqued at the petrol pump

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result from the first attempt. That goes for some people who wish to put petrol in their car but don’t quite get the spatial thing, as this video shows. The person appears to expect the filler cap to have moved from one side of the vehicle to the other simply because she drove around the petrol pump. Her confusion over the filler cap is nothing compared to other funnier – and sometimes tragic – happening
August 2, 2016 Read time: 1 min
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result from the first attempt. That goes for some people who wish to put petrol in their car but don’t quite get the spatial thing, as this video shows.

The person appears to expect the filler cap to have moved from one side of the vehicle to the other simply because she drove around the petrol pump.

Her confusion over the filler cap is nothing compared to other funnier – and sometimes tragic – happenings when people pull up to the pumps, as this %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal video Youtube video false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVOJxdq6v4 false false%> shows.

Related Content

  • JCB emissions compliant engines to launch in wheeled loaders
    January 6, 2017
    JCB will launch 427 and 437 wheeled loaders at Bauma, powered by Stage IIIB/Tier 4 Interim Cummins engines. First seen in prototype form at last year’s Intermat show, the two loaders are powered by the Cummins QSB6.7 engine, which offers a 9.4% increase in torque over the previous model. This drives through a lock-up converter and customers can choose a standard four-speed or optional five-speed transmission, which delivers a 16% drop in fuel consumption. In-cab noise levels have been reduced to just 68dB(A
  • JCB emissions compliant engines to launch in wheeled loaders
    February 8, 2013
    JCB will launch 427 and 437 wheeled loaders at Bauma, powered by Stage IIIB/Tier 4 Interim Cummins engines. First seen in prototype form at last year’s Intermat show, the two loaders are powered by the Cummins QSB6.7 engine, which offers a 9.4% increase in torque over the previous model. This drives through a lock-up converter and customers can choose a standard four-speed or optional five-speed transmission, which delivers a 16% drop in fuel consumption. In-cab noise levels have been reduced to just 68dB(A
  • IRF Examiner launched as industry resource to boost efficiency
    May 19, 2014
    Volume 1 highlights life-saving role of new methods and proven technologies around the world Since the IRF’s establishment in 1948, knowledge transfer has been the core of what the IRF does best. As industry tools and procedures evolve to meet societies’ needs, the availability of global knowledge resources is now more important than ever.
  • Getech spins centrifugal washwater cleaner into tunnelling applications
    January 6, 2017
    Getech, the Italian manufacturer of centrifugal washwater cleaning systems (formerly Gennaretti) is targeting tunnelling operations with containerised versions of its V type machines. The five-machine range can remove up to 60tonnes an hour of solids from washwater flows of up to 180m3/hr.