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making me laugh today

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  • #2
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Didn't even giggle. but meh, whatever gets you going.


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Computer glitch opens un-staffed supermarket to happy Kiwis

    Dirty dozen go wild in the aisles without self-scanning

    By Joe Fay • Get more from this author

    Posted in Bootnotes, 26th April 2011 11:52 GMT

    Canny Kiwis were given a Good Friday bonus when a computer system automatically opened a supermarket to all comers.

    The Mill St Pak 'n Save in Hamilton, New Zealand should have been shut for Good Friday, but the godless computer system overrode a manual command to shutter up, and flicked on the lights and threw open the automatic doors at 8am despite a complete absence of any staff.

    Records show the first customer wandered in at 8.03am, with a trickle of punters between then and 9.20am, at which point police arrived to stop what was threatening to become a free-for-all, stuff.co.nz reports.

    The store's owner, Glenn Miller, told the Waikato Times that 24 people stocked up during the unscheduled opening hours.

    Half of those used the self-scanning kit to pay for their goods. The other dirty dozen took advantage of the assistant-less zombie store to help themselves, with the police arriving after receiving a report of people making off with truckloads of groceries.

    Miller was initially furious, but told the paper: "I can certainly see the funny side of it ... It makes me look a bit of a dickhead."

    He said he hoped people would feel guilty and "cough up", hinting that as well as the automatic doors, lights and tills, the shop's security CCTV had also kicked into life.

    Local cops told the paper, "When we arrived there were cars leaving all over the place. There were some people in the shop at the checkouts legitimately purchasing items [using the self-service facilities] and others in the store. We couldn't tell who had paid and who hadn't and so our first priority was to close the supermarket and contact the owners." ®

    It's chuckle worthy funny.........but not lol funny.


  • #4
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    4 out of 10 for the laugh ......

    Ahhh OK so , it's a sunny day and I'm feeling good , have 6 .


  • #5
    Loopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,220 ✭✭✭✭Loopy


    Nothing, sorry.


  • #6
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Thanks OP, this is going in the 'You Laugh, You Lose' thread.


    followed by a Forever Alone picture when nobody thanks it for being funny.


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  • #7
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    leave my new country alone ya bloody recession moaning bastids!!

    :p


  • #8
    strokemyclover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    Miller was initially furious, but told the paper: "I can certainly see the funny side of it ... It makes me look a bit of a dickhead."

    It's a shame we don't see this level of honesty in Ireland


  • #9
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Rabies wrote: »
    leave my new country alone ya bloody recession moaning bastids!!

    :p
    Rabies wrote: »
    leave my new country alone ya bloody recession moaning bastids!!

    :p
    Echo ....Echo..... Echo..... Echo.....


  • #10
    Balfie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    I'd laugh more at the death of my mother.


  • #11
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Balfie wrote: »
    I'd laugh more at the death of my mother.

    Perks of being in a family of Clowns.............Everything's funny!


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  • #12
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Nothing.

    Are you in the right spot?


  • #13
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Latchy wrote: »
    Echo ....Echo..... Echo..... Echo.....

    Time zone problems. I sent it from the future to your past to make it present.


  • #14
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Rabies wrote: »
    Time zone problems. I sent it from the future to your past to make it present.
    It arrived totally jet lagged to .....


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