Hope Tesco Ban Them For Life

[fiction-factory]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/charges-dropped-couple-water-rochdale-15353361?int_source=taboola&int_medium=display&;int_campaign=organic
What an obnoxious, troublemaking pair, playing the race card too.

[fiction-factory]

>// Wailing, argumentative, stubborn, looking for trouble, making mountains out of a molehill... // Yep sounds like all the school teachers that pop up on the MEEEdeah these days.

Have you got a few examples Togo? Is the MEEEdeah the same as the Meejah by the way. Like the Beep Bee Cee? I live in the real world not a Breitbart world and I've met more far more teachers than you have and I can assure you the vast majority are not wailing, argumentative, stubborn, looking for trouble, making mountains out of a molehill.

[Togo]

Are you by any chance...…..a teacher? Haha.

[fiction-factory]

Yep. That's how I know which orifice you are talking through- again

[Togo]

Bless. :))

[Spicerack]

^That's no way for a teacher to speak. The standards are appalling nowadays.

[Togo]

Not only that Spice. A person charged with the responsibility of helping to form the thinking of our future citizens and possible future well being of out Nation. A person who revels in the sobriquet "Fiction Factory" on social MEEdeah. Very Freudian if you ask me.

[wolf63]

Fiction Factory is the name of a band from my part of the world. It was a long time ago.

[fiction-factory]

Togo, what are you prattling on about? Fiction factory are a band from my youth from Peebles. I have no idea what you are trying to say- but maybe you have nothing meaningful to say again

[wolf63]

Peebles!!!
Perth.

[fiction-factory]

Ha-yes, Perth

[Spicerack]

^ All the same.

[10ClarionSt]

A family member of mine works at this Tesco. She witnessed the whole incident. There is a policy at the store that prohibits some items from being purchased in large quantities. I would say that Mr. Hussain could not accept the store policy. It's nothing to do with racism. That's another issue, but when it has been raised at the store, the outcome has never been what it should have been.

[wolf63]

I used to have problems buying enough Pepsi Max bottles to do me for a week from Tesco. If you approach them they are quite reasonable.

I think that the couple went in looking for a fight and found one. It's an old story - I wonder if there has been a final outcome. Maybe they are considering suing Tesco or the Police or ...

[ummmm]

The lady was filming it so who out it on social media? Not the kind of behaviour you'd expect from a teacher!

[douglas9401]

Every little yelps.

[jno]

to repeat: the story is dated last October. AB should maybe have an Old News section.

[Togo]

I just have to wonder how many "other" Tesco branches they shop at where the "teacher" is allowed to buy industrial amounts of Volvic water, (Never thought I would have to type that) cos ""She's a secondary school teacher and the bottled water is kind of her trademark, she's very popular at the school." Her trademark? What is she doing? Waterboarding the kids?

[douglas9401]

Answerbank Dave.

[douglas9401]

To be fair to our hero, Togo, he was well past the point of saying anything remotely sensible.

Traumatised most likely. Bigly.

[Gromit]

What a total mess on every ones part.

Firstly, a shop is there to sell stuff, so they should have been allowed to buy as much water as they wanted. An arbitrary limited is not justified. They are a big store so there will be plenty of stock in the warehouse to replenish with.
Secondly, once the disagreement started, to start filming is suspicious. Their aim was to obviously post it and play the victim card (not the race card). So Tesco were entitled to ask them to stop. They appear to not understand what a public and a private space is.
Thirdly, the police handling of the situation was terrible. Some retraining is overdue there.
Fourthly, the Manchester Evening News have published an edited video. The edit is at a crucial point so it does not give an accurate telling of the story.

So to summarise:
The Store were petty
The customers were idiots
The Police over reacted
The Newspaper edited to give a false story.

The only people I feel story for is the staff, who have to enforce Tesco’s daft rules, and then deal with the hostile public.