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Marks & Spencer threatens granny for eating cookie
The Herald Sun ^
| April 14, 2010
| staff reporter
Posted on 04/14/2010 2:30:17 PM PDT by Daffynition
AN 86-year-old grandmother was threatened with being thrown out of a British supermarket cafe after she started nibbling a cookie she bought in the same store.
A female shop assistant told "humiliated" Thelma Williams that she could be escorted out and fined for dunking her chocolate chip cookie into a cup of tea at a branch of British supermarket giant Marks & Spencer (M&S).
Williams bought a scone and cookie from the food section, and then her daughter bought her a sandwich and a cup of tea in the cafe.
An assistant told her she could not eat it because of the consumer tax difference between cafe and shop-bought food.
"The staff made me feel as though I was a common criminal - yet I was just eating one of their biscuits," Ms Williams said.
"This woman over-reacted. All the customers were looking at me. It was so embarrassing and very distressing."
"Our policy is that cafe customers must only consume items bought in the cafe area. We are sorry for any distress caused to the customer," an M&S spokesman said.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Food
KEYWORDS: cookienazi; liberalstupidity; napl
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I have a suspicion that this incident had something to do with the VAT tax in the UK.
To: Daffynition
bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do? whatcha gonna do when they come for you...
To: Daffynition
If she’d just been wearing a burka, none of this would have happened.
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:33:12 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:35:07 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
To: Daffynition
When Monty Python stopped being a show, who knew the terrible implications of life imitating art!
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:35:42 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Daffynition
Dang, grannie. Don’t you know the government has the right to tell you what you can eat, where you can eat it, how much you can eat and how much you should be paying them for all the above?
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:36:38 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Free Men will always be armed with the Truth.)
To: Daffynition
Africa Britain wins again!
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:38:46 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
To: Daffynition
Marks and Spencer was always one of my favorite shops when I lived in Britain. I really liked their shirts, suits etc, and their stores always looked great.
Too bad they decided to employ “dunking Nazis” to harras 86 year old women recently.
To: Daffynition
An assistant told her she could not eat it because of the consumer tax difference between cafe and shop-bought food. I see some misplaced anger here. Granny should be PO'ed at the tax, not the merchant. If the store had violated the tax law, they'd have a lot more trouble on their hands than one angry old biddy.
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:44:59 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
To: Daffynition
I suppose that she should have bought Spam in room of the biscuit.
To: Daffynition; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
An assistant told her she could not eat it because of the consumer tax difference between cafe and shop-bought food. 
"'ere now, boys. What 'ave we 'ere but a common crim'nal?"
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:50:25 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: Daffynition
I have a suspicion that this incident had something to do with the VAT tax in the UK. Coming soon to America 2.0.
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:50:49 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: Daffynition
"Drop that cookie and hand over the VAT you old broad!"
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posted on
04/14/2010 2:51:42 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Daffynition
I wonder if she might be diabetic and didn’t feel good and needed to eat something?
To: Daffynition
That’s sacrilege...
That woman must have been a Moslem...
No woman with English blood would ever mess with another woman having a cuppa tea...
Y’all betta not mess with me at Tea Time...
To: Daffynition
Is she going to have to register for the rest of her life as an illegal cookie eater?
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posted on
04/14/2010 3:19:00 PM PDT
by
farmguy
To: Daffynition
Poor old dear. She could have had a doodoo in the cafe and I wouldn’t have yelled at her.
To: ari-freedom
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posted on
04/14/2010 3:34:03 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
To: bgill
Which one is a tea cozy?
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posted on
04/14/2010 3:37:01 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
And people say Britain is soft on crime!
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