Ooh - we've just been on Five Live!

katiejane

vis a vis the free petrol at a petrol station in (ahem) "Finsbury Park".

And on the BBC News site where a local resident has called it 'totally irresponsible'. I agree - our tank's full - they could have warned us.

tosscat

Yes, [look.](http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/mercenaries-2--world-in-flames-ea-giving-away--20-000-worth-of-petrol-this-morning-in-finsbury-park--north-london)

Glyn

More on the petro-carnage here: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7599639.stm>; Everyone was looking completely confused about what was going on when i wandered past just after 8, especially the W3 driver who was trying to work out how to get his bus through all the cars.

andy

cool. it's on the front page of the bbc site now. can someone load up some photos?

tosscat

Sadly I cannot - I'm bloody miles away. Are the press not there? It's in the [Metro](http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Petrol_chaos_at_Mercenaries_2_launch&in_article_id=296342&in_page_id=34) with the most stupid library picture as if we live on a m-way exit.

Alex S

Here's some naff pictures of a woman dressed in fatigues standing on a jeep

http://galleries.thelondonpaper.com/free-petrol-finsbury-park-last-stop-garage-mercenary/2

If they had based the characters on Mash I would have been all for it.

tosscat

[yawn](http://galleries.thelondonpaper.com/free-petrol-finsbury-park-last-stop-garage-mercenary/2)

Beek

Aww, if ever Stroud Green deserved a mention, it was with this story. Isn't that petrol station right next to the old Stroud Green station?... Still, at least they didn't call it Crouch End.

Colette

Is it Crouch End Borders?

tosscat

No Colette, it isn't. You should know better.

matt

When I lived on Fairbridge Road, a guy I worked with lived two roads further down Holloway Road from Archway. He'd bought his house (partly) on the basis of his estate agent telling him it was on "Highgate Slopes"

Duncan

Will you allow upper east borders, Tosscat?

tosscat

I guess it is upper east borders as the upper east of SG is the block enclosed by Stapleton Hall, Ferme Park and Mount View. I don't have the power to allow anything Duncs.

Toddlesocks

Saw it in the Mirror yesterday too.