Man tasered after petrol station rampage sparks fire fears in Blacktown, Sydney

Staff at a Sydney petrol station have been left shaken after a man went on a rampage in their store, causing hundreds of dollars in damage and sparking fears of a potential disaster when he lit up near fuel pumps.

The terrifying incident unfolded at Blacktown Metro service station at 8.30am on Thursday when a 27-year-old man entered the store and asked to use Pay ID to buy cigarettes.

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When the manager explained he couldn’t leave without the transaction going through, chaos erupted.

“I said, oh my, just be calm, and after that he just throwing everything on me,” station manager Krunalsinh Dodiya said.

Security footage shows the man hurling food off shelves and kicking drinks onto the ground as staff desperately tried to call police.

Smoking as staff try to call the police, the alleged rampage then continues outside, hurling firewood at the bowsers, pulling pump after pump after pump to the ground, smoking right next to them as he does.

“He had a lighter as well, and he was, you know, reading that he will burn. So that’s why we have to call police,” station co-owner Dipti Patel said.

“That’s a very scary thing. What if something happens to us?” Dodiya said.

When officers arrived minutes later, the man allegedly attempted to hit them before police tasered him and arrested him on Richmond Road.

It’s also alleged the man assaulted a 10-year-old boy only minutes before the petrol station incident.

The man was taken to Blacktown Police Station and has been charged with common assault and malicious damage.

In another blow to the service station, staff were also left to deal with a separate incident where another man drove off without paying for $83 worth of fuel.