Saturday, May 19, 2007

Assault

Wow, what a rather dramatic end to an otherwise normal day at work. I feel like I'm living this weird parallel life to a certain someone who's name shall not be mentioned on my blog.

I'd just clocked out and headed to Provisions to see if a friend Nathan was going out in Ashby tonight. As I rounded the corner, I saw a guy I vaguley know attacking Nathan. He was going "chest to chest", Devvo style, before turning around and walking away. (and kicking over a pile of cardboard).

I was like: WTF?! I turned to ask Nathan what had happened when a customer asked for Hummous. I looked at Nathan and he asked me to help the customer so I took him to the hummous and walked back to ask Nathan what was wrong, and he said the guy had headbutted him.

Myself, Nathan's Manager and Nathan all went in persuit of the guy but lost him in the car park, he seemed to disappear into thin air!

Now, I've got to admit to feeling a bit stupid about taking the customer to the hummous when someone had just been assaulted in the store but Nathan hadn't told me because he was a bit stunned by it all. It was too late to go after the guy.

I've got to leave a statement in the incident book at work and the Police may want a statement as well. But seriously, who the hell thinks head butting someone in a busy supermarket is a good idea. Dickhead!

Sorry, I don't have any exciting pictures to illustrate this incident.

1 comment:

MjH said...

We had something similar in my store a while back, a friend found a chap in our staff toilets (which are in the basement of our store & thusly out of bounds to customers)& when he took him to the exit back to the shop floor, the guy turned around & kicked the shit out of him.

He ended up with a tonne of money out of it & is fine now, but still, bloody crazy people...