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Angry T-Mobile Customer In Britain Goes on Rampage & Unleashes Fire Extinguishers Inside Store (and There’s Vid!)
- Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:43pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Have you ever got so angry at your cell phone provider you just wanted to throw a tantrum and spray a fire extinguisher inside your local store? No? Well, that‘s what one guy in England did after he was told he didn’t qualify for a refund.
The man, identified as 42-year-old Jason Codner, went on a rampage inside a T-Mobile store on Saturday in Manchester. After not getting the rebate he wanted, he started tearing things off the walls, completely trashing the store. Not satisfied with his handiwork, he decided to grab not one but two nearby fire extinguishers and began spraying them all over the store:
A crowd gathered outside the store and ate least one person captured video:
The Manchester Evening News has the reaction from T-Mobile:
There were seven members of staff and ‘a number of customers’ in the store at the time and all were taken outside the shop while they waited for police to arrive. The spokesman added that the incident was ‘very upsetting’ for staff. The store is still closed while T-Mobile takes stock of the damage but will reopen ‘as soon as possible’. T-Mobile added: “We will of course continue to work to ensure the safety – of both our staff and our customers – is of paramount importance at all times.”
Codner faces court on July 31.
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Comments (45)
teddrunk
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:28amPeople today are spoiled brats. They will whimper, cry and complain about the most minor thing in a store. Men of a certain age group, or younger, have become little girls whining about the most trivial thing in a store. Women are complete pigs while shopping. Stores need to hire people not to sell to them as much as to pick up after them. This kind of event in the article will become common place.
Report Post »poster
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 7:06amI didn’t know ACORN had a British division.
Report Post »g.prunty
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:59pmpoor england hear alot of that background speech in the beginning they probally have to push 1 for english also
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 1:32amI don’t know or care to know the details, all I can say is that T-Mobile deserved it.
Report Post »Auntie izlam
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:12pmAlthough I don’t condone what he did, I do understand it. Sometimes you just get tired of being treated like crap and after that limit is reached you go berserk.
Report Post »Auntie izlam
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:15pmBTW if he is muslim I retract the above statement because they don‘t need anything to make them go berserk except not being pampered and treated like they’re special.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 12:26amOut of touch with his “cell”…
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 8:35pmGood man. He will pay for his anger. I have imagined doing something like this many times.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:44pmFrankly and without malice towards any, his behaviour resembles that of a angry ape in his cage going bananas (pun intended).
This is another reason why the multiculture is a failure because no set standards can be set, expected or maintained due to the diversity of beliefs and tolerance levels.
Civil societies are a wreck these days with people running amok and yes even in Scottsdale, AZ.
The people are eating this up which makes them exactly the same as the perp. Where does it end? I’ll tell ya, it ends badly for all of us thats where! The normal law abiding people just wanting to pursue life, liberty and happiness will increasingly be restricted from doing so because our options to do so will begin to shrivel in an attempt to control the madness that is permeating our cultures. The Love of many waxes cold! That is a hardening of the heart towards your neighbor as the result. When your FEELINGS trump everyone else, then no one else matters and when that happens no one cares either, when care is lost we are lost. Its an ugly uphill climb out of destruction from there. Keep your heads out there and turn the other cheek if you can.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:51pmchiefgeorge I don’t always agree with you but I sure as heck do on what you wrote just now.
Report Post »Thank you .
yanki161
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:57pmA. He‘s gay and having a hissy fit that the item he wants doesn’t come in pink.
Report Post »B. He’s gay and WANTS to go to prison ’cause he’s fat and lonely.
C. He’s Muslim and gay and therefore conflicted and acting out.
D. He’s a beginner anarchist taking down the big evil T-Mobil.
E. He didn’t take his medication today.
So many choices. Hard to pick.
ChiefGeorge
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:36pmHis actions will result in the hammer coming down on us all!
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:53pmIts said that Nero fiddled as Rome burned. Here on the net idiots laugh while their country is being torn apart. You are correct Chief, the hammer is almost raised high enough to make its decent.
Report Post »billo
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 9:48amDid anyone notice that the perpetrator is BLACK, therefore entitled? Or is it politically incorrect to notice something like that?
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:54pmSo whatever reason the guy thought he was going to cause massive damage to that store, the people hurt are of course the employees who are not working. I would be very interested in knowing what pushed him to do this but honestly in the end I think the guy is an idiot and I hope he has to pay to repair all the damage done.
Report Post »powedj
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:39pmDid that Muslim say ALLAHU AKBAR first?.
Report Post »tckid17
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:30pmThis was more than T-Mobile “Data Planned for”. He was taken out of con-texting with roaming charges pending.
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:56pmAt least no one yelled ‘Allah Gaybar’…
or is it ‘Allah Snackbar’? Whatever.
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 6:18pmOh My Gosh ! I can sympathize whole heartedly !! I have dealt with lots of companies but T-Mobile is the absolute worst. I signed a 2-year contract with them for a webstick/data plan. Used it 4 months. Have contacted customer support many time – the problem never gets resolved, meanwhile I’m stuck paying on this contract with no usage until December. This company is a nightmare !!!!
Report Post »Pounding_hammer
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:54pmThankfully they only ate the the least amount they could:
“A crowd gathered outside the store and ate least one person captured video:”
…
Come on Blaze, what’s going on here. This is not the 1st time, by far.
To be entirely serious here, I am expected to be professional at my job, and would get mocked for not getting the basics correct. For me, that would be basic math.
I will suggest for you at the Blaze, that is basic grammar and spelling!
I am just helpfully pointing out that you can…. Improve! :)
(Oh, and some of your topics could improve too).
Report Post »ohboyohboy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:06pmWhat’s the big deal here? The perp and staff are black. How can that be deemed wrong in this looney PC world liberals have constructed for us?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:49pmBlack on black is not a hate crime…move on folks, nothing to see here.
Report Post »TimM
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:00pmWonder if they realize yet it would probably have been less expensive to give him the rebate?
Report Post »BannedByHuffpo
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:55pmIf it were any other cell carrier, I’d blame the guy for being nuts.
BUT after over a decade with T-Mobile going back to their predecessor Voice Stream, I got so frustrated with their shabby treatment from customer service I finally bailed and went to Verizon.
I‘d revert to orange juice cans connected by a string before I’d ever go back to T-Mobile.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:48pmWithout a mention of his age I would have assumed it was one of those moronic yobs. Pictures I guess are a 1000 words.
Report Post »4-The-Truth
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:40pmThis is the way I feel about T-Mobile after my 2 @home voice over IP lines have not been working for the last 2 weeks. Tech help is a 2 hour ordeal of run around going nowhere. This is not to mention their spyware Carrier IQ on their cell phones.
Report Post »123abc
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:38pmThe employee standing there should be fired by T-Mobile. He didn’t even ask him to stop. Not a good employee at all. Looks like the UK has their share of problem groups just like we do.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:52pmActually, confronting someone like that is likely against policy. They probably have a policy that you call the cops and stay out of his way. This is done likely to protect the company and employees from physical harm and liability.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:19pmDamn good thing it wasn’t my store; he‘d be in the hospital and I’d be looking for a job…
Report Post »T-2
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:30pmi guess the cell phone didn’t blow up the bomb.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:57pmI understand this!!
I resently had trouble with my phones sim card.
My wife called and explain Tmobile had bought my provider and I still had that phone.
“No problem come on over” In broken english.
I got there my wife and I stood in line,
When I got to the counter…“our sim cards wont fit your phone”!!
Man, I drove across town…actually had other things that I wanted to be doing
and couldn’t now because of the time I lost!!!
Wish I had thought of the fire extingisher!!!!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:18pmApparently, this city is awash with a sea of metro-sexual males. Note that I did not say ‘men.’
Report Post »potech90
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:18pmit seems that muslims have invaded europe. say what you want about that.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:08pmCan you HEAR me now ?
Report Post »shagstar
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:22pmahh yes,,tis the arab spring in full swing!
Report Post »SquareHead
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:25pmHe is innocent if he did this after he first tried to resolve the matter using their automatic phone system to no avail, as most of those systems are there to waste our time and money, while not being responsible for providing the service promised. We all have hellish stories to share, and I for one wanted to go to my local Sprint telephone company after spending 25 hrs of 6 months disputing $4.00 pr minute charge because their mistake of dropping me from my international plan, being told every month they would fix it, only to have them shut of my business phone out of the blue one day and demand a credit card to pay the full amount… (#$*%&#$(*%
If that is the case with this guy then he did it for all of us, and should get a medal, as many big corporations take on the characteristics of governments, and are virtually protected from real competitions because of regulations…
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Report Post »randy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:01pmMuslim? Gay? Gay Muslim?
Report Post »Master_and_Commander
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:01pmlol this is how I feel about my T-Mobile phone sometimes, it sucks…
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:47pmyou knew…didn’t you?
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