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You're right SuperC, I just might grab a turkey and whack him with it.

He sounds as though someone ought to have done that ages ago. :-D

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OMG please do NOT bump into him :-0 who knows what retribution he may seek and with what handy weapon?

If you were by the frozen turkeys it could be very, very nasty :-(


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Ooooh you two. :-D

I live not a million miles from there but have not had the pleasure of bumping into him ;-)

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thank gawd for that!!!

We are safe, he's in England ;-)

yep - I read that - what a ghastly man - imagine being married to him, or related even!! living next door would be too much :-D

A Sunderland pensioner has been found guilty of assault after whacking another supermarket shopper in a row about carrots.

Raymond Newton, 71, lost his temper when Pamela Mann tried to reach across him in a branch of Morrisons.

"I said 'excuse me, could I just get in to get some carrots please?' and the man said 'no you can't, I'm getting carrots'," she told Sunderland Magistrates' Court.

"He said 'you are not getting in front of me, no-one is getting in front of me'. It was very odd. His behaviour was bizarre."

But when Ms Mann reached round him anyway to help herself to carrots, she said, he pushed her in the chest and then hit her on both sides of her head.

"I was just stunned. I couldn't believe this had happened to me in the supermarket over carrots. My right ear was ringing and I staggered backwards," she said.

Newton admitted pushing Ms Mann - but claimed it was in self-defence.

"I thought she may have some kind of missile because I realise ladies carry a lot of merchandise in their bags. Something which could hurt me further. I was very, very worried for my own personal safety," he said.

He's been ordered to pay Ms Mann £150 in compensation, plus a £20 surcharge and £600 court costs.

As Ms Mann tells the Sunderland Echo, "It is surreal that all this happened because of carrots." Surreal - but less unusual than you might think.


I really do wonder what he thinks women lug around in their bags apart from the usual half cwt of useful bits and pieces :-D