Complaint Review: BP

Are u even serious, as a life time Memphis resident this did not happen the way you have portrayed---

U were the racist or have bigot tendencies- :those who think that Arabs and Blacks etc can get away with treating you in ways you deem demeaning- and destroying your white way of life....

AT 4am in the morning?  You work for a legal firm? Yoiu have horrid and uneducated spelling and even worse- Why shoud he let you in a 4am? cause you are white and entitled to be let in? and abhor being treated like you might be a criminal?  

Stop the cowardly whining and move on- and guess what --- I hate to say it- if u where in that area at 4am u where coming from a bar and you probably are a racist....

the average white poor person here in memphis tn are indeed deemed to be racist even if they are not...

I am old enough to know you probably did something to provoke the behavior and i bet his camera caught what u did or said...

p.s. You will also generally get better gas quality at the corporate owned stations as they have strict policies that must be followed in regards to the quality of their gas. The boys the franchise store are paying 2 dollars an hour to (under the table) generally arent going to give much of a rat's a*s about the quality of their gas. So when you have car problems you are gonnna get the runaround from the franchise stations and be told "tuff luck".

Also avoid buying gas from stations that have a garage attached because they will often "put stuff in their tanks" to cause you car trouble to make themselves money.

The only time you are gonna get any attention from the franchise boyees is when you drive off without paying for your gas- because the owners take it our of THEIR pockets- AWWWWW.......

Man Greg, it really seems like people on here want to jump on you and twist your story around. I admit I dont know about the rascist thing (need more details) but I definitely agree that this guy was a "nut job" if the story happened as you say.

If you dont want to "go around" to the side window that is your right to just get in your truck and leave. I do this kindof thing all the time when I pull up to the gas stations at night when they want me to prepay. If I dont feel like prepaying, then I just drive on. Truth is most of the time I want a fill up, and I dont have a computer on the car to tell me how many gallons to add. So I just go to a station that will let me "fill up". Do I expect them to "change their rules for me?" NO. Am I angry about being treated that way? Well it is an inconvenience but I know they have reasons for it so NO I COULD CARE LESS. YOU HAD THE SAME RIGHT TO LEAVE. I Come to the conclusion that this guy was pissed that you werent gonna spend YOUR money there. He was probly the owner or owners son or somthin and also A FRUITCAKE.

I HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH A FRUITCAKE....I pulled up to a station at night and stuck the nozzle in the car to "fill up". Guy comes on the speaker to tell me to "come inside prepay only" Well I didnt like his tone (smartass) so I commented to my friend that "well now Im only gonna get about 3 bux worth". FRUITCAKE MUSTVE HEARD THAT so when I get inside and go thru the line to pay he tells me I owe like 18 bux. So its obvious he turned on the pump for the fillup as soon as I came inside. Well this was a good opportunity for me to make a scene and give the guy a hard time as there was a crowd of people in there now...(Plus he had one of those FBI-FEMALE BODY INSPECTOR HATS ON)-I made him wait till I went out and check the car to make sure I really had a "fill up". Then I came back in and proceeded to give him a bitching about what he did and "how the hell did he know that I had 18 bux in my wallet to pay for it!" I gave it to him good and even hinted about me calling the police for thievery (I had witnesses now). So after I embarrassed the guy pretty good (in front of all the college girls-as it was a weekend night) I decided to pay the money and leave.

I got what I wanted (a fillup) and he got a good embarrassing (mr. female body inspector ha ha)

My advice to you: FIND OUT WHICH STATIONS IN YOUR TOWN ARE FRANCHISE AND WHICH ARE CORPORATE- AND ONLY DO BUSINESS WITH THE CORPORATE.

Generally you not gonna get these GUNG h*o FRUITCAKES in your corporate owned stores...

Good luck with BP, you shouldnt be doing business there anyway- SEE OTHER RIP OFF REPORTS...

First of all, it is obvious you were there to cause trouble, and the response you got from the cashier-on-duty was completely warranted. Why on earth would you want access to the store, when you admit that you "didn't even know what you wanted." It's one thing if you want to enter the store to purchase a gallon of milk and loaf of bread. But if you do not need or want anything, then why do you need to go into the store?

Second of all, it sounds to me like you did a wee bit more than politely wave and leave the premises. Judging from your tone, I would think that you gave the cashier the one-fingered-wave, if you know what I mean.

Third of all, what "legal profession" are you employed in, which requires you to travel in the wee hours of the night? I cannot think of any, unless of course your career is that of a plaintiff who is constantly being tried for causing lewd public disturbances and/or holding up BP gas stations.

Use a little more common sense next time and maybe you won't have problems. Why not discontinue frequenting BP gas stations in the middle of the night, and perhaps begin visiting Super Walmart or some other store which will allow you access 24 hours a day? Or is it more difficult to hold up a store that has more than one employee on duty?

First of all, it is obvious you were there to cause trouble, and the response you got from the cashier-on-duty was completely warranted. Why on earth would you want access to the store, when you admit that you "didn't even know what you wanted." It's one thing if you want to enter the store to purchase a gallon of milk and loaf of bread. But if you do not need or want anything, then why do you need to go into the store?

Second of all, it sounds to me like you did a wee bit more than politely wave and leave the premises. Judging from your tone, I would think that you gave the cashier the one-fingered-wave, if you know what I mean.

Third of all, what "legal profession" are you employed in, which requires you to travel in the wee hours of the night? I cannot think of any, unless of course your career is that of a plaintiff who is constantly being tried for causing lewd public disturbances and/or holding up BP gas stations.

Use a little more common sense next time and maybe you won't have problems. Why not discontinue frequenting BP gas stations in the middle of the night, and perhaps begin visiting Super Walmart or some other store which will allow you access 24 hours a day? Or is it more difficult to hold up a store that has more than one employee on duty?

First of all, it is obvious you were there to cause trouble, and the response you got from the cashier-on-duty was completely warranted. Why on earth would you want access to the store, when you admit that you "didn't even know what you wanted." It's one thing if you want to enter the store to purchase a gallon of milk and loaf of bread. But if you do not need or want anything, then why do you need to go into the store?

Second of all, it sounds to me like you did a wee bit more than politely wave and leave the premises. Judging from your tone, I would think that you gave the cashier the one-fingered-wave, if you know what I mean.

Third of all, what "legal profession" are you employed in, which requires you to travel in the wee hours of the night? I cannot think of any, unless of course your career is that of a plaintiff who is constantly being tried for causing lewd public disturbances and/or holding up BP gas stations.

Use a little more common sense next time and maybe you won't have problems. Why not discontinue frequenting BP gas stations in the middle of the night, and perhaps begin visiting Super Walmart or some other store which will allow you access 24 hours a day? Or is it more difficult to hold up a store that has more than one employee on duty?

First of all, it is obvious you were there to cause trouble, and the response you got from the cashier-on-duty was completely warranted. Why on earth would you want access to the store, when you admit that you "didn't even know what you wanted." It's one thing if you want to enter the store to purchase a gallon of milk and loaf of bread. But if you do not need or want anything, then why do you need to go into the store?

Second of all, it sounds to me like you did a wee bit more than politely wave and leave the premises. Judging from your tone, I would think that you gave the cashier the one-fingered-wave, if you know what I mean.

Third of all, what "legal profession" are you employed in, which requires you to travel in the wee hours of the night? I cannot think of any, unless of course your career is that of a plaintiff who is constantly being tried for causing lewd public disturbances and/or holding up BP gas stations.

Use a little more common sense next time and maybe you won't have problems. Why not discontinue frequenting BP gas stations in the middle of the night, and perhaps begin visiting Super Walmart or some other store which will allow you access 24 hours a day? Or is it more difficult to hold up a store that has more than one employee on duty?

If you are accusing someone of making racist comments, then race does matter. If he didn't yell a comment to you that refers specifically to your race, then how can the comment be racist? Also, comments made between people of the same race are often not considered racist, where if a person of a different race made the comment, it would be. For example, it's not uncommon for black people now to call each other "n****r" in conversation, and not mean to be demeaning. As a white person, if I was to use that term for a black person, it would be a racist comment.

Unless you can show that the statements made by the BP employee are racist, you really have no claim to call them racist. This would require knowing the races of the people involved (Greg and the BP employee) and what was said by the person being accused of making racist comments.

As far as the time stamp. I guess you would have to ask the web master about that.
I wrote this after I as soon as I got home. I do not have control of the time stamp and I really don't care about it. It has nothing to do with my complaint. I do not know if it had anything to do with the fact that I wrote this first to BP, then copied it and pasted it to rip-off report. Like I said you would have to ask the webmaster.

(It was standard Eastern Time) Just incase you really wanted to know.

First off I do not see where what race I am or what race he is. (It shouldn't matter).

Second. I do not think that I need to put that kind of langue on this page. Since there are so my atavists out there that are sue happy and I would rather not have Rip-off report sued and/or taken down.

Third every time that I had been there before at all hours of the night, I did not know if they where open or not (Since many of the stores here in Memphis say there open 24/7 and will have people in them 24/7 and still they say they are closed). That is way I knocked on the window. That is way I waved good-bye and walked to my truck.

But there is no excuse for him to run and unlock the door and yell out racist things to me (Considering that I haven't even said a word to him).

And as far as you go Peter. In my line of work (which is a legal profession), my fellow co-workers, and the people in my field go to this place all the time. Mostly at night, and mostly on week end nights because that is what the job requires.
And I would like to ask you. How would he know that I was going to try to cause trouble when I turned around and got in my truck? I did not go to him, he came out to me, and he opened his big mouth first, yelling at me.

It seems to me that YOU did not read the whole thing. And if you did it sounds like you yourself are just wanting to start trouble. So, if you want to argue about it go some where else I will not argue my opion or a fact. That is not what this web site is for.

Reports like yours make me wince in disbelief. First of all, there was NO racist act committed. You were simply a suspicious character arriving at a gas station in the dead of night, and the clerk was smart enough to keep you locked out of the store where you belong. Why did you want entry to the store anyway? You yourself stated that you didn't know what you wanted -- so why then was it necessary to go inside? It seems to me that you just wanted to stir up some kind of commotion in the store, and the clerk knew this as well, which is why he would not let you inside. This was not a racist act -- but rather a SMART MOVE on behalf of the clerk. No one should have to deal with such crooked people as yourself.

1. You didn't state the race of either yourself or the attendent at the gas station, so what racist act did the attendent commit? He called you a racist, but that isn't a racist act in and of itself.

2. Maybe the reason he wouldn't unlock the door and indicated you should come to the window was for security reasons. There may be a company policy against having the door unlocked during certain hours and all transactions are to be handled through the window for employee safety. Then again you "exspect to be treated like a customer and not like a pise of s**t" (sic). I guess this means you expect whatever rules may be in place to be suspended for you. Maybe if you had gone to the service window the attendent would have been more than happy to explain why he was unable to unlock the door for you.

3. What hate crime was committed? Again, since you didn't mention what race anyone involved is, there's no evidence of a racially motivated crime. The only crime that may have been committed is his threat to kick your a*s. And even that I have to question since from the tone of your post I would bet that there was more done or said by you than the simple shaking of your head.

I also have to wonder about the validity of this post because of the time stamp on it. I don't know the time zone the ripoffreport.com servers are in, or what timezone they use for their clocks, but it could not have possibly been earlier than between 4:45 am in Memphis when this report was first started by the original submitter, that's pretty quick. That is assuming that the clocks on the servers of this site are set for the Pacific time zone. If they are set for Mountain, Central, or Eastern time zone, then this report is fabricated from the start, since it would have been submitted before the 4am time that the incident is claimed to have happened.