death!!!
Someone suffered a fatal heart attack in a supermarket recently and died on the shop floor.

Sooner than close the aisle, they dragged the body out back and dumped him in the warehouse. I'm sure given half a chance they would've chopped him up and sold him on the meat counter.
(Fridgy, Thu 10 May 2012, 23:52, 15 replies)

missed out on fun times
What a wasted opportunity to get all the nappy boxes and make a protective fort around him! Very tough boxes, and handily sized like breeze blocks.

"Where is the body?"
"In here, officer!"
"You built a... Pampers mausoleum?"
( ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-, Fri 11 May 2012, 0:44, closed)

i'm choosing to read 'recently'
as 'in my head'.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 11 May 2012, 7:37, closed)

Call me picky, but
how many people don't die after a fatal heart attack?
(username failed moderation, Fri 11 May 2012, 9:15, closed)

It wasn't fatal until they decided not to start CPR but drag him out the bag instead....

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 15 May 2012, 14:27, closed)

I suppose
If it helps fill the emptiness in there Janet then its all good.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 11 May 2012, 9:50, closed)

I thought
death in a workplace was an automatic closure while an investigation was carried out?
(manwiddicombe is thinking of something witty to add here, Fri 11 May 2012, 10:15, closed)

That's got to be a bit of a bugger
up the hospice.
(ubergeekian, Fri 11 May 2012, 13:30, closed)

And no moving of the body until paramedics arrive.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 12 May 2012, 12:45, closed)

Riiiiiiiight. And no-one called an ambulance the instant this happened?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 11 May 2012, 21:22, closed)

Mind you, this is quite a scandalous tale, I'd imagine that you have a local news link to this sort of thing?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 11 May 2012, 21:23, closed)

I was told the story (if that is what it was) by two fellow fridge engineers who were working at the site when it happened. Instead of showing my contempt at said supermarket, I should have branded them liars given them the Spanish inquisition.
I can't find a link for a news story for this incident. Only one in Gillingham approx 1 month before. Where someone died on the shop floor and customers were up in arms about the aisle being closed off. www.metro.co.uk/news/889472-shoppers-complain-as-paramedics-tend-to-dying-man
(Fridgy, Sat 12 May 2012, 5:47, closed)

So, in essence, you haven't bothered to make this up, you're repeating something someone else has made up?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 12 May 2012, 12:46, closed)

whatever...
I just told a story I heard about a supermarket. If you're panties are in a bunch about it, stick it in the archive. I'm off down the pub.
(Fridgy, Sat 12 May 2012, 16:33, closed)

no harm in moving the patient to the warehouse...
...ambulance colleague of mine went to a 999 call in a supermarket. Patient was in cardiac arrest and so needed CPR and the services of a defibrillator. She was staggered that customers were still happy to lean over her to reach the stuff on the shelves regardless.
(bob_grizwold, Sat 12 May 2012, 19:08, closed)

No harm apart from the time taken to move them they're not receiving CPR and a lot more likely to die....
...still, seeing as this didn't actually happen, I doubt it hurt anyone.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 15 May 2012, 14:20, closed)