Caught short in shop
January 27th 2009 A German shopper was given a lifetime ban from a bathroom shop when he used a toilet without realising it was purely for display, reported the Daily Telegraph last month. Heinz Kessel found the toilet behind a screen and relieved himself at the store in Bochum. Unfortunately the 39-year-old didn't realise it wasn't connected to the drains.
"I was talking to another customer when I suddenly realised there was a terrible smell in the shop," explains shop assistant Simone Fiedler. "I called the manager and we went around the shop looking for it and then behind a screen where we had some toilets on display there was this red-faced man trying to flush a display toilet. He thought it was hooked up to the mains and couldn't understand why it wasn't working.
"He apologised and told us what had happened but in the end we had to shut the shop until it was all cleaned up because the smell was so bad customers would have been driven away anyway."
Fuming staff gave Kessel a cleaning bill and banned him for life.
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