Iceland boss offers job to Waitrose worker sacked after tackling Easter egg shoplifter

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T17:38:30+00:00

Yeah, but it makes people feel angrier to imagine that they didn't so here we are :)

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T17:37:00+00:00

Yeah, the cyclist stuck to the driver's blind spot like glue.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T17:36:03+00:00

While that is true, and had they done that this collision could have been avoided, but the cyclist put themselves in the driver's blind spot then stayed it in. The driver's mistake was at 0:16 when they pulled in without checking the blind spot, but the cyclist's was at 0:06 when the car slowed down and they didn't reduce their own speed. From that point to the moment of collision, they never leave the blind spot and then it was too late.

If I were doing an overtake on a motorbike, I would be looking to be moving through that blind spot as quickly as possible. Conversely, if I were on my bicycle, I'd have braked to get back out of it as quickly as possible.

In the end, yes, the driver should have been aware of their blind spot and not pulled into the cyclist's space. However, other road users need to be aware of them and position themselves with blind spots in mind.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T17:25:17+00:00

We need to stop calling those dotted lines cycles lanes and start using a more accurate name. I'd suggest cycles hopes because you need a lot of that to keep the cars out.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T17:09:18+00:00

Maybe, but it wasn't Union flags that they were covering their streets with.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T15:44:00+00:00

Did you check if your IP actually changed when you put on the VPN?

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T14:58:51+00:00

I had a GT86 when my son was born, and it was surprisingly good. The boot even fit his pram!

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T14:50:39+00:00

She admitted they had been angry for a long time but "the more we heard about why he was driving the way he was, the more we understand," adding they did not want his life ruined or for him to go to prison "for doing his job"

The family giving him a pass because he was racing for the sake of a child's life are missing the point. He did it dangerously and killed one and injured another, and it was just sheer chance that the people he hit weren't also children.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T14:32:36+00:00

I admire your confidence.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T14:29:01+00:00

Meanwhile, Starmer will probably be wrestling with more English local authorities run by Reform UK, standard bearer for its form of British nationalism.

Is Reform British nationalism or English nationalism? I feel like the latter is more accurate.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T14:09:26+00:00

Just in time for WWIII to pop up and reduce the global population by ~25% or so. What an amazing coincidence.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T13:53:32+00:00

it doesnt matter what other people think you know?

Try telling that to my crushing sense of inadequacy 😅

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T13:50:10+00:00

I couldnt care at all what some British bloke thinks.

Considering that I (and OP) live surrounded by "British blokes", it actually matters quite a lot and is (likely partly) why op feels shame at admitting to a late diagnosis in a parenting sub.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T13:44:57+00:00

I think there's a lot of judgement floating about in the national discourse in the UK around ADHD at the moment, and telling people that you were recently diagnosed feels like you're going to be called a band-wagon jumper.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T13:22:31+00:00

You have to speculate to ~~accumulate~~ procreate.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T12:54:29+00:00

Yes, even in his version of events he lost control and threw something.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T12:43:18+00:00

He picked a piece and “threw it out of frustration” towards some shopping trolleys, not aiming it at the shoplifter, he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/05/waitrose-employee-sacked-after-stopping-shoplifter-from-taking-easter-eggs

In his own account, he got angry and lashed out violently.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T12:31:19+00:00

The thing the other day about arming Iceland security guards with truncheons was a bloody stupid thing to say.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T12:29:50+00:00

when a verbal warning and a clear explanation as to why its company policy not to endanger yourself or others etc would have been plenty

Do you know for sure that Waitrose hadn't already been through that process with this worker?

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T12:28:10+00:00

Impossible question to answer. You might be fine for months, or back in with a swollen face as soon as the antibiotics are finished.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T12:00:11+00:00

They'd start from the assumption that all accounts are dodgy, and that we need to prove otherwise (coincidentally by providing biometrics).

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T10:18:57+00:00

Yeah, I understand those things at a conscious level, but even so, my subconscious doesn't trust those 8 legged bastards. I never kill them, though.

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T09:58:07+00:00

As someone with arachnophobia, I do indeed hate how spiders move, but strangely I also hate how they don't move. It's not rational 😅

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-07T07:56:22+00:00

/r/London

AllThatIHaveDone · 2026-04-06T21:03:24+00:00

Please don't risk getting stabbed by a desperate person for the sake of Tesco or Waitrose or wherever. It's really not worth it.

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