A chain of confectionery shops has been forced to make a grovelling apology and dole out free chocolates after one of its managers referred to the town it posted him to as a “s***hole”.
Steve Beall, who had been sent from Newcastle upon Tyne to manage Thorntons’ newly opened café and shop in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, made the mistake of bemoaning his fate on a personal blog. (Now deleted).
Before he could say hazelnut whirl, his comments were plastered over the front page of the local newspaper.
Enraged locals laid siege to the shop, staff feared for their safety and the police had to be called in to keep the Barrovians at bay.
By that time, though, an embarrassed Mr Beall, 20, had already made a run for it, back to the safety of Newcastle. Police said that he had either been sacked or suspended.
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