Woman horse rider kicked out of Tesco store becaus

[sweet soul]

Woman horse rider kicked out of Tesco store because she was 'too smelly'
On her way home from a morning's riding, Krys Gunton popped into the supermarket for a few groceries.
But the only thing she ended up taking home was an insult.
A security guard asked the amateur horsewoman to leave on health and safety grounds - because she apparently 'smelled too much'.
Miss Gunton had walked into the Tesco store in her jodhpurs and boots, having just finished a morning ride.
She was astounded when, as she was choosing her shopping, a security guard tapped her on the shoulder and told her: 'You're smelling too much'.
Miss Gunton said: 'At first I didn't understand him, but then it became clear that someone else in the shop had complained about the smell to him. He kept on repeating "you're smelling toomuch".'
The 29-year-old added: 'I asked him what he thought I should do about it. He suggested that I should change my clothes.
'I just told him that I didn't have any spare clothes - and there was nowhere to change anyway. The whole situation was completely ridiculous.'
Yesterday a spokesman for Tesco said: 'We apologise for any confusion or upset caused but we did ask the customer to leave for health and safety reasons.
Miss Gunton: 'I made sure I wasn't trailing mess everywhere'
'The customer was asked politely to leave the store as she had manure on her riding boots - which is of course not acceptable in a store which sells food.'
But Miss Gunton said: 'I didn't have any horse muck on me - just a bit of mud.'
She added that she had spent an hour riding her horse Monty, an eight-year-old grey, that morning.
As Monty is kept at a nearby riding school, Miss Gunton had not mucked out the animal at all.

Indeed, she claimed that the only dirt on her clothes would have been some dried mud on her riding boots.
Miss Gunton said: 'Before I went in I made sure that I wasn't trailing mess everywhere.
'It was not like I was covered in horse muck - it was just "eau de horse"!'
She added: 'I was totally humiliated in front of a shop full of people and felt forced to dump my shopping and simply walk out of there.'
The incident happened on January 2 at a branch of Tesco Metro in Romford, Essex.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1119002/Woman-horse-rider-kicked-Tesco-store-smelly.html

[Foxy1]

lol gotta laugh at this one!

What is their policy for a shopper with an appalling case of BO I wonder?

the comment The customer was asked politely to leave the store as she had manure on her riding boots smells suspiciously of justification after the fact

[newyorker]

She's inconsiderate of everybody else in that shop, she should have went home, had a shower and change of clothes, then went shopping. People don't want to smell that when they're shopping for food.

Also she should be ashamed of herself walking around town smelling to high heaven, she should act like a lady and a lady is aware of her hygiene.

[cobblers]

Foxy, I was in Sainsbury's Local the other day and it wasn't a shopper who stank of BO - it was one of the people working there!

[sweet soul]

They will say ' here's smelly nelly ' if she ever goes back in there :-)

[Libby]

Quite right that she was asked to leave. The last thing i want to smell when i'm buying my rhubarb is horse manure! lol!

I love the way she simply refers to her smell as "eau de horse"!'

[fastkat]

Living in the countryside, you get used these sort of smells but in a town supermarket I can imagine such smells to be offensive.

[Rude Eric]

hoarse raiding Tory tiffs alway have a bad Oder. they cover themselves with-the blood of animals.
these disgusting purple shod be locked up.

[Beachcomber]

hoarse raiding Tory tiffs

Hi 'Eric' ...... I'll asume that's in English and just point out that horse riding in some rural areas is a cheap form of transport as compared with owning and running an expensive 4x4 gas guzzler. We peasants can't afford petrol.

(16th century efficiency as opposed to 21st century waste)

[Scooby Do]

Some years ago,when I smoked, and befroe the ban on smoking indoors

I was accosted by a shelf stacker in Tescos who objected to me smoking. She fetched the Manager when I told her to sod off.

The Manager asked me not to smoke in his shop.

I said, If you don't want people to smoke in your shop, then I'm asking you, not to sell them.

(I gave up smoking ages ago)

[Beachcomber]

I'll bet they also sold toilet paper - 'nuff said

[Scooby Do]

Jan 17, 2009 18:46:17 GMT Beachcomber said:

I'll bet they also sold toilet paper - 'nuff said [/quote


;D

[armchairapathist]

Jan 17, 2009 18:17:36 GMT Beachcomber said:

hoarse raiding Tory tiffs

Hi 'Eric' ...... I'll asume that's in English and just point out that horse riding in some rural areas is a cheap form of transport as compared with owning and running an expensive 4x4 gas guzzler. We peasants can't afford petrol.

(16th century efficiency as opposed to 21st century waste)

Isn't a 4x4 with horsebox essential horsing equipment?

[Scooby Do]

Only by the "Green Welliies, Townies"

[voice]

theres a bit of difference with have smelly pits round the fruit and veg than trailing shite round id say

[norfolkdumpling]

I think trailing manure smelling footprints round a food shop is a step too far. If she had gone into a country store she might have got away with it.
I wonder what the policy is on tramps? Or customers with BO?
;D

[Libby]

I think employers have to be so careful these days. If they discipline someone because they have BO they could be done for being discriminatory. Can you imagine the furore if the employee was a foreigner too?! Then it would be all over the news and papers that a foreign employee with BO was being "picked on" and discriminated against.

[Muz]

The forum makers should be ashamed. SS's headlines don't fit here either.

[norfolkdumpling]

Hmm what would have happened if the lady had been coloured?

[Libby]

I don't think it's politically correct to even say coloured anymore, so you can imagine the furore if a black person had been reprimanded in Tesco's with his "eau de horse" riding boots on?! You can just imagine the newspaper headlines!