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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Birth of another Spiderman?
Spider bites man in supermarket
"..a 65-year-old man has been treated in hospital after being bitten by a venomous spider as he reached for a bunch of bananas at a supermarket..."
So do we see the advent of a 65 year old Spiderman? Jokes aside, it is quite shocking to see the response from Sainsbury, which is where it happened. Here's what Sainsbury had to say:
In a statement, Sainsbury's said they take "all possible precautions to prevent events such as this from happening". Yeah, right!
"We sell millions of bananas every week and it is an extremely rare occurrence." Tell that to the poor old man who faced this "rare occurrence".
"The customer has not been harmed from the bite, and we believe he is now fine". Of course, the old man was just faking it, or maybe trying to morph into Spiderman.
"We arranged for his shopping to be dropped at home after the incident, and are extremely sorry that this may have caused him distress." Wow! How considerate I say!!
The entire statement from Sainsbury seems to be directed at washing its hands off the incident. First they say they take all possible measures, and hence if something like this does happen, its your bad luck. And then, they go on to underplay the incident, and claim the old man was indeed alright, nothing happened - so what if he had to be hospitalised for 17 hours, he was simply faking it.
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