Friday was plainly a slow news day at the News & Star with The Cumberland News. Reporter Emma Walker was dispatched not to canvas the views of residents of Seaton, Cumbria worried about ‘Storm Dennis,’ but instead found herself with 82-year-old Mary Ingamells, a great-grandmother who “couldn’t believe her eyes” after finding a two-inch-long stick of wood amongst her tatties when she “went to have some carrot.”
Community minded Mrs Ingamells explained to interested readers of what she’d found in the Tesco tin of peas and carrots:
“I had a taste of my tatties and went to have some carrot, and thought, ‘what’s that?,’ and it was this great stick of wood in the pan!”
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“I don’t care about getting compensation or any of that nonsense, I just want to make people more aware, and let them know this happened.”
“If a parent or grandparent had given the bowl of peas and carrots to a two-year-old and turned their back for just one second, the baby would have choked on it.”
“I’m not looking for money – the tins only cost 20-odd pence, so that’s not the issue at all… I just keep thinking what could have happened. I could have choked to death!”
In spite of Tesco apologising and offering her compensation, Mrs Ingamells felt the need to share another of her experiences. When she was two-years-old she choked on an orange segment. She ludicrously claims she “can still feel the orange in her throat.”
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6 comments
Stupid old woman probably just put it in their to get herself in the local chip sheet.
She’ll be off to her f**king lawyer next!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not send this whinging whiner Down Under!!!!!!!!!!! She probably wouldn’t even survive the flight!!!!!!!!!!! Give her a curry and finish the old dear off!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet she’s never had a Castlemaine either!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid Sheila!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lock her up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How was this ever reported? It is no wonder local newspapers are going to the wall. Who’d pay to read this shite?
This made my Saturday morning. Hilarious. Loopy old dear should eat fresh rather than tinned henceforth.
She needs to be put in a pulveriser. Boring stupid old cow. I bet she lied and put the wood in her saucepan.
Delightful and wholesome read! Still feels the orange in her throw at from the age of 2? I think she might be away with the fairies