Re: oh well!(kaboom)

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In a message dated 7/28/98 12:45:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, quk@isham-
research.demon.co.uk writes:

> self-serve
>  > customers forgot one important step in the fueling process, remove hose
>  > from vehcile gas tank.  It happens more than you think, and a couple of
>  > these incidents literally "lit up the station".
>  
>  The reason that nozzle 'locks' are forbidden in the UK.  You let go of
>  the handle - it stops pumping.  So you have to hold it till you're done,
>  and naturally put it back.
>  
>  I _think_ they're now banned Europe-wide.

And increasingly less prevalent in the U.S. for the same reason.  Often older
nozzles simply have the catch removed.  If not legislatively, then I think the
insurance companies are giving the service stations an..ahem...incentive to
remove the catches.

-Ingo