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EA Mercenaries Hijack Petrol Station

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'Mercenaries' from Electronic Arts are hijacking a London petrol station this morning and giving away £20,000 of FREE petrol to customers.

The entire forecourt of Last Stop Ltd near Finsbury Park, North London will be completely transformed into that of a military style bunker, with jeeps, oil barrels, sandbag walls, and fully costumed actors on hand to pump the petrol for the customers...
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altredeemer - 470 days 7 hours ago
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1 - I wish they'd...
done it in Birmingham!!!
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thereapersson - 470 days 5 hours ago
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2 - Hahah, yet another EA failure
Didn't they realize that this would cause general disorder among the public?

FREE FUEL? WTF! Of COURSE this is going to cause lines around the block!

The sheer stupidity of people some times...
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nirwanda - 470 days 2 hours ago
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2.1 - fail I dought it.
the price of fuel gets talked about nearly every day in the national newspapers in the uk it's a great PR stunt they only spend £20,000 for a slot in every newspaper and will defiantly make local TV news and maybe even national tv news.
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Ben1054 - 470 days 4 hours ago
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3 - omg
i live in london,
and i need petrol, omg need to go there
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clearelite - 470 days 2 hours ago
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4 - omg omg omg omg!
20,000 pounds will get you blokes about 17 gallons of petrol, no? HAha I'm just kidding. I've heard the gas prices over there are astronomical. Perfect opportunity for EA to exploit the burdensome conditions :] Then again, you guys do drive those tiny little cars. People are finally starting to drive them here in America. As well as hybrid cars, and electrics, which are somewhat uncommon.

Chip chip cheerio cheerio :]
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bumnut - 470 days 2 hours ago
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4.1 - fyi
fuel is £1.10 per litre

diesel is £1.20 per litre

we get ripped off
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EnglishPatriot - 470 days 2 hours ago
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4.2 - "Chip chip cheerio cheerio :]"
nice stereotype >:[
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nirwanda - 470 days 2 hours ago
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thats just over $2 per litre we get raped by the taxman
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Shortstop - 470 days 1 hour ago
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Uh, EA doesn't give one damn about the fuel lol. This is just a case of doing it for publicity, which it's getting. I would imagine it's along the lines of "the mercs stole the venezuelan gas" and here it is free.

And yes I didn't read the article.
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f789790 - 469 days 21 hours ago
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6 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7599639.stm
It caused chaos! Yay! It took ten minutes for someone to get out of their driveway.
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