Parkinson's Sufferer Ejected From Halfords 'for Funny Walk'

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-43033055

This is unbelievable !

"He said when he told a shop assistant he had Parkinson's, she replied: "I don't care what you've got, I want you to leave the store."

[-Talbot-]

I would eject the daft moo from her job.

[rockyracoon]

So would I. Stupid woman.

[mikey4444]

How about Halfords make a substantial donation to "Parkinson's UK" ?

[NoMercy]

There are probably 2 sides to this story. There invariably are!

[ToraToraTora]

some people are just not on the pace mikey.

[mikey4444]

TTT...if I had been a customer in that shop, at the same time, I would have intervened and called the police.

I might also has given the stupid Halfords employee a smallish slap !

[Mamyalynne]

Well you've have needed the Police if you slapped the assistant.

Thank goodness Halfords have taken this to heart and are going to implement better training.

[-Talbot-]

You really get confused at times don't you, mikey?

[ummmm]

What's a smallish slap?

[mikey4444]

Mamy...yes, you are right of course....I posted that somewhat TIC.

But just exactly what kind of training did Halfords have before this incident, to allow something as clearly ignorant as this to take place ?

[Tilly2]

I can't understand why the shop assistant asked him to leave the shop because he was 'walking funny'. There has to be more to it than that.

[fiction-factory]

Sounds ignorant and Halfords have apologised so they accept that the employee was at fault. I do wonder here though whether the story as reported is the full story

[Mamyalynne]

They obvious;y didn't train employees that someone who may appear to be walking drunkenly could in fact be disabled or as in this case a Parkinson's sufferer.

[Jahulaye]

The worker was not fired but will be “trained” this immediately tells me as said above there were two sides to this story and we’re not getting the full story from the Parkinson’s sufferer. No doubt CCTV would have been consulted which didn’t lead to the worker being fired which throws up alarm bells in what truly occurred.

“I don't care what you've got, I want you to leave the store."

^ that doesn’t sound like anything anyone would say and if Said would have led to her dismissal if it was true imo.

[andy-hughes]

Like a lot of news stories, this appears at first viewing to be a dreadful cut-and-dried black-and-white situation.

But long experience with our tabloid media should alert us to the fact that stories are rarely as they first appear, and a little investigation often shows that matters were not as presented in the interests of a 'heavens-to-betsies' news story.

[-Talbot-]

So we don't believe the shop assistant said

"I don't care what you've got, I want you to leave the store."


?

[fiction-factory]

I don't doubt that the shop assistant said that, but I can see that we don't know what prompted it- eg if the person was being abusive to staff or throwing litter or smoking or a suspected shoplifter or lots of other things. It was an unsatisfactory response I know, but there may be mitigating circumstances-I'd be interested to know the full story if there is more to it

[-Talbot-]

Whilst I'm no fan of running to a paper for sympathy ... What evidence is there that even suggests there is another side to this story?

[Peter Pedant]

a smallish slap - like when Mungo slaps the horse ?

[Peter Pedant]

damn sorry
can a moderator remove this please ?
it was meant to be Mungo knocking out the horse clip
sozza