Brit schoolboy denied wine gums 'because they contain alcohol'!Byline: ANI London, Oct 24 (ANI): A Brit brit also britt n. 1. The young of herring and similar fish. 2. Minute marine organisms, such as crustaceans of the genus Calanus, that are a major source of food for right whales. teenage boy is said to have been banned from buying wine gums, as a shop he bought them from classified the sweets as alcohol. Jaz Bhogal, 15, had purchased the sweets at a 99p Store branch but was then called back to the discount shop and warned he needed to be aged 18 to buy the packet. The male checkout assistant ordered the schoolboy to hand back the Haribo sweets and he was given a 99p refund at the shop, managed by Nikki Parker, in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Jaz, from nearby Leverington, who was out shopping with a friend, was left dumbstruck dumb·struck adj. So shocked or astonished as to be rendered speechless. dumbstruck Adjective temporarily speechless through shock or surprise Adj. 1. . "I couldn't believe it!" the Daily Express quoted him as saying. "He asked me how old I was and, when I said I was 15, he said he couldn't sell me the sweets. "He said they had wine in them and pointed to the word wine on the packet. I was absolutely speechless speech·less adj. 1. Lacking the faculty of speech. 2. Temporarily unable to speak, as through astonishment. 3. Refraining from speech; silent. 4. ," he revealed. Even his mother Sue Bhogal, 36, was puzzled by the whole incident. "I thought Jaz was joking with me when he came home and told me what had happened," she said. "It is ridiculous and I would have been really cross if I had asked him to buy them for me," she stated. Red-faced store chiefs have now promised Jaz a voucher to WARRANTY, VOUCHER TO, practice. A warranty is a contract real, annexed to lands and tenements, whereby a man is bound to defend such lands and tenements from another person; and in case of eviction by title paramount, to give him lands of equal value. 2. spend in the shop as compensation - as long as he buys a packet of wine gums. Bosses are investigating how wine gums were classed by the shop's till system as a banned item for under-18s but suspect it could have been mistakenly entered into software on the machines when the store was opened. "Because the Wisbech store opened fairly recently there seems to have been a very unfortunate glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. . We have rectified this and are sure it will not happen again at any of our UK stores," Graham Barnes, spokesman for 99p Stores, said. "To show that we have a good sense of humour Noun 1. sense of humour - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humor, humor, humour we would like to offer Jaz a nine-item voucher to spend in the store on condition that at least one of these products is wine gums," he added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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