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Filling up with fuel with your helmet on can cause you to pass out, the supermarket Morrisons told a biker.
Petrol fumes collect inside the helmet and become trapped, causing sickness and eventual loss of consciousness, the retailer said.
The bizarre claims were made to a motorcyclist who tried to refuel his Harley-Davidson FXR at a Morrisons petrol station in an open-face helmet. Les Ramshaw wrote complaining to the supermarket after staff refused to turn on the pump until he took the helmet off.
The customer service department wrote back claiming: ‘With a helmet on, petrol vapours can find there [sic] way inside the helmet and become trapped, these vapours can cause nausea and potentially cause a person to lose consciousness.’
Ramshaw, a 47-year-old police officer from Basingstoke, said: “I’d like to see the evidence that fuel fumes are poisoning us every time we fill up.”
Phil Monger, Technical Director of the Petrol Retailers’ Association, said: “I would say it’s almost impossible for this to happen.”
Les Ramshaw was made to take off his open face helmet before being allowed to refuel his Harley
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