BOY ORDERS GROCERIES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29932, 20 September 1962, Page 9

BOY ORDERS GROCERIES

Revenge For Dismissal (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, September 18. A sacked grocery boy took his revenge on the man who had fired him by telephoning a false grocery list which filled seven pages of an order book and the bill came to £l3l 5s lid. It took an hour and a half to telephone, the “Daily Mail” reported. He sauntered into the store to gloat over the assistants eagerly wrapping up the bumper hoax. It included six tins of peaches, a whole ham, 30 chickens, wine, salads, 30 tins of crab, 71b of cheeses, a dozen expensive delicacies, and 10 bottles of whisky, the newspaper said. The hoax was discovered when the store telephoned the man in whose name the bill had been ordered, to check some items. Yesterday the 15-year-old boy appeared in a juvenile court at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He pleaded guilty to a charge of sending a false telephone message “for the purpose of causing annoyance and inconvenience.” He was put on probation for a year.