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grum · 2021-09-26T20:22:09Z

Must be a STW user surely. As the longstanding boss of the FairFuelUK organisation, which campaigns against tax rises on petrol, Howard Cox is used to criticism from environmentalists and cyclists. What he didn’t expect was someone listing his home address in Kent as a petrol station on Google Maps in the middle of a fuel crisis. “I got 70 phone calls with people saying, ‘have you got any petrol for sale?’” he told the Guardian. “I was panicking because my phone didn’t stop ringing and it’s my private home address. They typed in ‘petrol stations near me’ and it came up with a little flag over my house saying ‘petrol station’." He said the reaction on Twitter had given him clues as to who was responsible: “It has to be an environmentalist. The people who are laughing their socks off are mainly cyclists, I’ve blocked a lot of them. If I find him – I’m assuming it’s a him – I’m not quite sure I can control my actions. I’m convinced it’s a militant cyclist.”

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Marzocchi Unabomber.

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The Provisional B.S.A :

Does the Birmingham Small Arms Co have a T-Rex?

Posted : 28/09/2021 8:56 pm

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And the URL,

militant-cyclist-lists-fuel-tax-lobbyists-home-as-petrol-station-on-google-maps

… “allegedly.” Or, “accused of.”

Shame on the Guardian for that.

At least they "fixed" the headline.

Initially it just straight out said that a cyclist had done it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210926180207/https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/sep/26/militant-cyclist-lists-fuel-tax-lobbyists-home-as-petrol-station-on-google-maps

Posted : 28/09/2021 9:05 pm

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Does the Birmingham Small Arms Co have a T-Rex?

His nickname is 'Long Forks'

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