Monday, May 16, 2011

Ham slice dispute lands four in hospital

Four people were hospitalised in Italy on Saturday after a dispute over the thickness of a supermarket's ham slices turned violent.

The row broke out when a 50-year-old woman shopping in the Tuscany town of Livorno protested that the ham slices being cut by a counter assistant were too thick.



A scuffle unfolded involving the shop assistant's father as well as the woman's husband and two sons. Police were called and three ambulances were also sent to the scene.

The shop assistant, the disgruntled ham shopper and her husband all suffered bruises and were treated in hospital. The shop assistant's father was also hospitalised after feeling ill.

1 comment:

Insolitus said...

If you don't like the thickness of the slices and the shop assistant isn't willing to cut the ham the way you like, don't buy ham, then. A fight is the absolute stupidest thing you can do at that point and immediately changes your position from being right to being wrong.