Yodel Manager, 56, Stole Phones Worth £24,000

A Yodel manager stole phones worth £24,000 in a bid to pay off a loan shark but was caught when bosses set up spy cameras at her office.

Julie Birchenough borrowed £1,000 from a lender she found in a newspaper advert, but when she was unable to repay the debt straight away, she was forced into a series of crimes.

Minshull Street Crown Court was told that the 56-year-old intercepted the devices at work as they were about to be sent out for distribution and then hid them in her vehicle.

She was busted when officials placed spy cameras at her Oldham office, which captured her stuffing two Huawei phones in a shoebox before taking them outside.

Thirteen other devices worth between £500 and £1,500 were retrieved from her home plus a notebook describing potential steal to orders. It’s deemed a sum of 24 phones were taken.

Inquiries unveiled that Julie Birchenough, who was entrusted with the safety of goods bought by shoppers online, had seriously got into debt with enormous interest repayments after she took out a payday loan to buy herself a car.

She declined to identify the loan shark but insisted she’d been pressured into stealing the phones to pay off her debts.

She’s since fled her home and got work in a fish and chip shop.

Investigators found no proof she’d been selling the phones herself online.

Julie Birchenough, now of Poulton-Le Flyde, Lancashire, admitted theft by employee and was sentenced to 12 months jail suspended for 18 months.

The crimes were detected in August 2019 after she’d been employed by Yodel as a security manageress for ten years.

Prosecutor Harriet Lavin said that her role was to manage the security team and maintain the safety of goods within the site, and she was employed to keep an eye on what people were doing, and there were stringent search regimes, however, the defendant was not subject to that as a security manager.

And in August 2019, another manager was made aware of a significant number of lost packages, and that the losses were high-value mobile phones priced between £500-£1,500.

From further inquiries, it became apparent that those losses had all come from one trailer on the shifts that the defendant was working in when she was managing. So, a secret camera was installed in the defendant’s office where it was reviewed with the defendant seen to be packing a huge amount of mobile phones in packaging before placing them in a cardboard shoebox.

And surely having a role as manager, she must have been smart enough to know that taking out loans from an advertisement in the paper leads to never-ending debt? Not quite what you’d call a criminal mastermind, was she?

She wasn’t pressured into anything – she took that path of crime because of her debt, and all because she wanted to buy a car. Now people have lost out and suffered because of her actions – perhaps she should have brought a bike?

However, these loan sharks prey on the weak, and the APR is just idiotic, but there wasn’t any actual proof that this alleged loan shark ever existed, other than Julie Birchenough’s word and the fact she wouldn’t name her partners in crime, which kind of makes you doubt her version of events unless of course, she was worried that there might be some sort of revenge and that she might be in some kind of danger.

Of course, the moral of the story is, don’t spend what you don’t have!

Man Is Branded Ridiculous

A man has been branded ridiculous for threatening to report his female neighbour for anti-social behaviour for sunbathing in a bikini in the communal garden.

The 29-year-old male resident, who lives in the United Kingdom, took to Reddit and explained how her lying half-naked outside the apartment looked tacky and said that it might result in the apartments losing their value.

Furious about the situation at hand, he went on to ask forum users whether he’d been unreasonable for telling the woman that the garden, which she believed was communal but he said was merely ornamental, wasn’t to be used in this way.

However, it wasn’t long before people leapt to the woman’s defence, with one writing that taking a photograph of a woman in a bikini and sharing it was more anti-social than sunbathing where she lived.

In the initial post, the man wrote that they’d been experiencing a heatwave for the last four days, and he’d noticed a woman sunbathing on the lawn.

He said that she brought a blanket and a book and was out there for hours, reading in a bikini top and shorts and that on the first day, he asked her if she lived in the building and she said that she did, having recently moved in.

He said that later on, he saw her access the building with keys so he didn’t think that she was lying, but that she was out there from 10 am till 4 pm. He continued that he saw her again and let her know that the gardens weren’t to be used in that way.

The man, who said the grounds were extensive and maintained, went on to explain that in his two years of living there, he’d never once seen anyone use the grounds as if was their own personal space.

He chose to take the matter one step further by taking a photo of the woman in her bikini from his apartment window, before posting it in the local WhatsApp group to remind others to call out this anti-social behaviour.

However, he explained the move proved controversial, adding that some residents agreed but others said he was being weird.

To make matters worse, the woman in question was also added into the group chat, leading her to respond that she wasn’t going to stay inside in 30c heat when she has green space right outside.

This man needs to get a life of his own.

The woman was only sunbathing, and it’s not as if she was doing anybody any harm, but of course, you can’t seem to do anything without offending someone, and the world is getting ridiculous.

And the man comes across as being a bit of an oddball – disturbing behaviour taking a photograph of the woman. Now I’d call that very anti-social behaviour.

It’s a communal garden, which means that everyone can use it unless of course, the tenancy says differently.

So, in essence, a fruitcake makes himself look bad on Reddit because he didn’t like any degree of exposure! And taking photographs of people and posting them on the internet without their consent is never okay.

This seems more like voyeurism if he’s taking clandestine photographs of the woman in her bikini, and his judgemental disposition seems far more offensive.

Unless there’s something in the tenancy that has been set she’s entitled to use the communal garden. As for the bikini, I’m guessing this man doesn’t go to the beach or swimming pool et cetera so that he can avoid such attire.

Royal Mail Is Planning To Axe Saturday Letter Deliveries And Signed-For Parcels

Royal Mail is planning to axe Saturday letter deliveries and signed for parcels under a major shake-up of services.

Simon Thompson, the postal service’s new UK boss, is looking at the controversial changes as part of a six-month review.

The review is said to be reconsidering Royal Mail’s entire product offering and comes as it attempts to modernise and drive through big cost savings, and any decision to scrap Saturday letter deliveries and signed for parcels would need changes to the law.

Royal Mail is currently required to deliver letters for a fixed price, six days per week, under a universal service obligation (USO), but with letter volumes in decay, bosses argue this requirement is antiquated and leaves Royal Mail at a disadvantage versus competitors such as DHL and Amazon.

Instead, they want to focus energies on the parcels industry, which has been turbocharged by online shopping throughout the pandemic, but despite this, Royal Mail bosses are said to want to scrap tracked, signed for packages because they’re costly to deliver, with numerous customers happy for parcels to be left in a safe place if they’re not home.

Ofcom, the communications regulator, has now backed the plan to scrap Saturday letter deliveries in principle, and it said that consumer demands could still be met following the change, which could save Royal Mail between £125 million and £225 million.

Ofcom said the decision on amending the USO was ultimately up to MPs, but the Communications Workers Union, which fears job cuts if services are trimmed, has previously said decreasing letter deliveries would be inexcusable.

Amazon, DPD, Hermes et cetera don’t deliver letters or walk the streets as Royal Mail do, and I’m not quite sure how cutting out Saturday deliveries would be modernising, and in the end, we will be having our letters delivered by Pony Express, and what ridiculous bunch of dimwits are out there running our Royal Mail?

And if Royal Mail stops providing their Signed For service, numerous people won’t use them again because there will be no point and it will be more economical to use other delivery services, and they’ll be able to send larger packages for the same money.

Royal Mail is currently the Waitrose of the delivery services, but if it wants to reduce its services, then they need to decrease its costs, and it’s hilarious how they always want to make a profit, yet they need to cut their costs, and it’s a shame to see Royal Mail fade away like this.

And here comes that word modernise again – it sounds benign, doesn’t it, but it’s probably a euphemism for lower pay for workers, more generous bonuses for bosses, and a lot worse services for the customer, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Amazon, DPD, Hermes et cetera eventually take over the postal service because they appear to knock on doors more than the postman does.

They’re not modernising, they’re deteriorating and drowning and other courier services are sweeping in to pick up the slack, so this is just going to be another nail in the coffin for them, and basically, they’re moving out of the parcel market entirely, but let’s not try to gloss over it!

And to be fair, charging more for worse services does appear to be the standard global definition of modernisation and improvement these days, and it appears that providing fewer services is modernising.

Anger At Plans That Could Jail Journalists For Up To 14 Years

The newspaper industry warned that Journalists could be hit with long jail sentences if their stories upset the Government under sweeping reforms to the Official Secrets Act.

Reporters given leaked reports would be handled similarly to spies and face prison sentences of up to 14 years under proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act.

A consultation by Priti Patel’s Home Office wants to update the 1989 act to account for changes in the digital age, particularly around data transfer.

Human rights groups and the Law Commission, which drew up the plans, called for a public interest defence to stop journalists with leaked documents from being prosecuted, but the Home Office insisted such a move would threaten their attempts to prevent damaging unauthorised disclosures, which wouldn’t be in the public interest.

Now the News Media Association, which represents the UK’s national, regional and local publishers, has said the proposals will discourage whistleblowers from coming forward.

NMA legal policy and regulatory affairs director Sayra Tekin said that as part of any flourishing democracy, the public and a responsible press must be free to cast light on the state’s violations.

She said that the proposed measures of whistleblowers discourage whistleblowers from coming forward with important information which the people have a right to know and put a chill on investigative reporting which holds the government to account.

And she said that they strongly urge the Government to reconsider these measures and instead work with the industry to put proper protections for media at the heart of the Official Secrets Act so that freedom of speech is enhanced by the new regime rather than weakened further.

The organisation added that changes could criminalise public interest journalism by exposing reporters and whistleblowers to harsh new penalties.

The NMA warned that proposals for stiffer custodial sentences and increasing the field for prosecuting individuals could open the floodgates to the media and its sources being prosecuted despite acting in the public interest.

It added that a public interest defence should instead be introduced to the regime to protect freedom of speech and a new Statutory Commissioner could be created to give speedy redress for whistleblowers caught by the Official Secrets Act.

It said that the law mustn’t come at the cost of public interest press freedoms which do so much to expose wrongdoing, and veteran broadcaster John Simpson admitted that he probably would have been prosecuted if this had been law at the start of his career in the 1970s.

But now, anything that hinders the government, reporters will get 14 years in prison, and overnight the reports will stop so that the problem stops.

However, false news is rife at the moment, with newspapers never using quotes or naming sources, but dictatorship is installing itself – look at them, they despise us, but the people are the many, they are the few!

And this is shocking – now the Tories want to eliminate the free press if they don’t like the narrative, but the people will determine if something’s in the public interest, not you Priti Patel or your government.

The government got caught out breaking their own rules, so now they’re passing laws so that we can’t find out about it without fear of incarceration, and this is so wrong, and a government that’s not open and allows no criticism isn’t a government, it’s a dictatorship, but people keep voting these fools anyway.

However, Matt Hancock kissing someone in a hallway and then finding out that he’s been having an affair with her isn’t classified information, neither is the fact that he broke social distancing rules.

Supermarket Bosses Urge Customers Not To Panic Buy

Supermarkets and a cabinet minister urged Britons not to panic buy after warnings that supermarkets face an epidemic of empty shelves this summer unless workers and delivery drivers are exempt from self-isolating when pinged.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng also announced the Government will U-turn and rush out a listing of businesses permitted to disregard the app, less than 48 hours after Downing Street warned there wouldn’t be one.

Kwasi Kwarteng admitted he was concerned about food supply problems but asked customers not to panic buy and said he couldn’t guarantee the pingdemic wouldn’t extend past August 16, when rules were expected to be dropped from the double jab.

Iceland boss Richard Walker has warned that Britain’s creaking food supply chain is on the verge of collapse causing deficits of goods in stores with 1,000 of his workers, approximately one in 20, amongst the 1.7 million Britons currently stuck at home.

Sainsbury, Tesco, Lidl, Morrisons, Asda, M&S and Waitrose are also seeing significant gaps on the shelves in most isles, but specifically frozen food, fresh meat such as minced beef, dairy products such as cheese, pizzas, bottled water, fruit and packaged salad and cooked meats.

Shops and businesses across the United Kingdom are also struggling with staffing levels and petrol stations have also been made to shut because they can’t get fuel delivered.

UK supermarkets are in the middle of a perfect storm of problems with tens of thousands of workers self-isolating because of the NHS app. The struggle to stack shelves and staff stores and warehouses is being made more acute by a shortage of lorry drivers to deliver food.

The Road Haulage Association believes the country is 100,000 HGV drivers short, and thousands of prospective drivers are waiting for their HGV tests due to a backlog caused by lockdown, while many existing ones have returned to the EU from the United Kingdom after Brexit.

Richard Walker said Iceland’s double-pronged problem of staff shortages and a shortage of lorry drivers were forcing them to draft in 2,000 temporary workers to keep the business running.

He said that they were seeing some availability problems and that it was now quite challenging to keep their stores open and keep lorries on the road to their stores to supply food with staff in there to serve the customers.

He said that they’ve closed two stores and had reduced hours in others and that it was ironic that they’ve worked so hard, and that their workers have been nothing short of heroic, to keep the show on the road.

Now there’s a deficit of drivers and the pingdemic has created chaos, and now supermarkets don’t have the products to put on the shelves as there’s nobody to deliver the goods, and why is this happening now, there weren’t so many people getting pinged before – next people will start panic buying again and we should just remove the app.

And when the Track and Trace app first came about, I noticed that people were getting all enthusiastic about using the app like it was a new toy.

I had friends that would go into places and would be doing their Track and Trace and getting all excited, almost like they were setting up a new Playstation and telling me that I should have it on my phone because it was so important.

I did download it to my phone to see what all the excitement was about, and then realised that if my location wasn’t on, then it was worthless, and seeing as I never have my location on, there was no point, so it came straight off my phone.

People should just delete the app unless of course, they’re happy to have time off work!

Prince Harry Is Putting The Queen In A Difficult Position

A royal biographer has claimed that Prince Harry is putting the Queen in a difficult position by expecting her to attend his daughter Lilibet’s christening.

According to royal insiders, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s daughter Lilibet Diana could follow in the footsteps of older brother Archie and be christened in St George’s Chapel in Windsor, with the Queen present.

A source previously told a newspaper outlet that Harry said the couple were happy to wait until conditions allow while in the United Kingdom to unveil a sculpture of Princess Diana, but Angela Levin has described Harry’s expectation that his grandmother will attend as unreasonable, given she’s missed christenings of other royal children in recent years.

She told TalkRadio TV that it puts her in a rather awkward situation because she can’t say that she’s not available for years.

She said that she didn’t go to Louis, the third child of Prince William and Kate, so it’s not a malicious thing.

The monarch didn’t attend the christening of Harry and Meghan’s son Archie, two, in 2019, reportedly because she had previous engagements, and according to Angela Levine, the Queen sometimes isn’t present at such events because they’re not close enough to the Crown.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s youngest child Prince Louis, three, is fifth in line to the throne, while Archie and Lilibet are seventh and eighth respectively.

Royal authority Russell Myers warned it would be awkward if Harry and Meghan were to christen Lilibet in Windsor because tensions are still running extremely high within the family, and Meghan isn’t the flavour of the month with them, even though the family have always said they would be much-loved members.

And Prince Harry said that he loves William to pieces, he’s his brother and that they’ve been through hell together, but that they were now on divergent paths.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex said that racism forced them out of Britain and maintained their son Archie was denied the title of prince because he’s of mixed race.

Meghan also alleged that Kate Middleton left her in tears during a dispute over bridesmaid dresses and Prince Harry accused his father Prince Charles of refusing to take his calls when the couple moved to the United States.

Russell Myers went onto imply that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly wanting to give Lilibet Diana a royal christening presents an endeavour from the royal couple to keep their royal connection, and is he asking the Queen to be present at the christening, or is he demanding?

And they only want the christening at Windsor because of the line of succession. Meghan and Harry always pretend they don’t care about the royals, titles, et cetera, but we all know that’s a lie, and they need the Royal Family to stay connected.

But to be fair, we only have palace insiders insisting that this christening is happening.

I don’t suppose Meghan will ever come back to England and neither will her two children, and the Queen will do anything to evade confrontation, but now it’s blowing up in the face of the Royal Family, and people are getting angrier and angrier at Meghan and Harry, and if the Queen doesn’t do something soon, she might hear the ramblings of a Republic.

But then again, if the Queen says no, petty Meghan Markle will claim it’s because of her skin tone, and the Royal Family will be walking a fine line with the narcissistic Meghan and Harry.

Prince Harry Said He Doesn’t Need The Queen’s Approval

Prince Harry spokesperson said he didn’t feel he needed permission from Buckingham Palace to write his $20 million Megxit memoirs.

The decision to write the tell-all autobiography has been stamped a moneymaking exercise at the expense of his blood family by royal authorities and insiders who predicted it would be a book by Harry, as written by Meghan.

It was claimed that Harry, 36, didn’t warn his grandmother, father or brother about the tell-all book until moments before it became public in a sign that his relationship with the Royal Family didn’t improve during his visit to unveil Princess Diana’s statue in London earlier this month.

The Sussex’s spokesperson told the BBC that Harry wouldn’t be expected to get permission for the project from Buckingham Palace, but told his family, including the Queen very recently, and it’s not yet apparent if royal officials will get to see the finished book before its release in late 2022 by publisher Penguin Random House. A newspaper outlet has asked Harry’s LA team to comment.

Harry said that he wasn’t writing it as the prince he was born, but as the man that he’s become, and responding to his bombshell statement signed ‘Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex’, broadcaster Kirstie Allsopp responded: ‘In which case, stop using the title to sell books’ and one royal insider said angrily: ‘A book by Harry, as written by Meghan.’

In his latest column for MailOnline, Piers Morgan urged the Queen to strip Harry and Meghan of all their titles, calling the book a betrayal too far and accusing them of turning Her Majesty’s world-famous adage of ‘never complain, never explain’ into ‘always complain, always explain, never stop whining.’

The Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William are said to have been blindsided by Harry’s shock announcement that he’s been secretly working on his as-yet-untitled memoirs with Pulitzer winning ghostwriter J R Moehringer for a year.

Another source revealed that the announcement had provoked much eye-rolling, adding that they thought everyone was just tired of being outraged when it comes to Harry and Meghan.

They have spent the last 18 months doing everything they assured Her Majesty they wouldn’t do, making a living off their former lives and standing as members of the Royal Family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s truth bombing started in March with their extraordinary 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey where they accused the Royal Family of racism towards Archie and ignoring calls for help from a depressed Meghan when she was suicidal and pregnant.

The fact is many people have had enough of all this. We’re in a pandemic and millions have died, and most people don’t care about a rich chap in a mansion with a loving family, and let’s face it, it’s an odd way to go about protecting his family from the media, by always being in it.

Harry said they were leaving the United Kingdom because they wanted privacy, well that’s not going so well! And they invade their own privacy every day so that we don’t have to, that’s got to be priceless, or even prince-less.

The thing is, they can’t do it on their own terms if they’re still part of the Royal Family, and they chose to be out but are desperately trying to hang onto their titles, and of course, nothing screams privacy like an autobiography.

Self-Isolation Mess

The government’s self-isolation rules fell further into shambles as No 10 slapped down a minister for saying people could ignore being pinged by the NHS app if they believed it was the right thing to do.

Paul Scully struck a starkly different tone from Boris Johnson’s press briefing when the Prime Minister emphasised that self-isolation rules must stay in place to control rising infections.

The business minister emphasised that obeying the app wasn’t a legal requirement, and people were being urged to make choices on what’s best for them.

No 10 quickly tried to correct Paul Scully, maintaining it was important people isolate when told to do so by the app or by contact tracers, but the intervention fuelled mounting confusion about how the public should behave as rising cases sparked a wave of quarantine instructions.

Businesses have warned they’re being made to reduce hours or shut down as so many staff are absent, while there have been rumours of bare supermarket racks, cascading bins and trains being postponed or withdrawn.

BP highlighted fuel supply problems at some garages, blaming industry-wide driver shortages together with the closure of distribution due to staff isolating.

About 1.7 million are believed to be isolating currently, with the problem set to get much more serious as cases keep climbing.

However, the Prime Minister dismissed calls to make the app less sensitive or bring forward a daily testing scheme for the fully vaccinated, due to come into force from August 16.

Instead, there are only exemptions for very limited groups of key workers, including some frontline NHS workers and parts of the food chain.

On another turbulent day in the coronavirus crisis, the pound hit a five-month low against the US dollar amid concerns that Freedom Day was turning sour and the government would need to reimpose restrictions to control mounting cases.

Boris Johnson has been accused of forcing compulsory vaccination after he threatened to make anyone going to a nightclub prove they’re double jabbed.

Dominic Cummings claimed the Prime Minister resisted pleas for a second lockdown last autumn, quipping that the COVID pandemic was only killing pensioners.

And according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), a total of 183 deaths recorded in England and Wales in the week ending July 9 mentioned COVID 19 on the death certificate, up 68 per cent on the previous week.

But there seems to be nothing but chaos and mixed messages and nothing but confusion at the heart of government, and if they can put the people into the same kind of confusion and chaos, it becomes far easier to manipulate, change and control behaviour, as it’s been throughout the whole of this pandemic, but this is the most expeditious route to anarchy.

This is brilliant, yet again, a minister that says one thing, only to be contradicted twenty minutes later by Downing Street. Do they actually get briefed or communicate with each other?

Of course, you can’t get pinged if you don’t have the app, but even if you did, all you have to do is turn off the Track and Trace part in the settings.

The incompetent and right-leaning populist Tory government spent 37 billion on the Track and Trace app, and then we’re told by someone to ignore it – you’ve just got to love British humour!

And if the very ambitious Mr Scully can’t bring himself to support the government line, then it implies that he doesn’t believe that Boris Johnson is going to be about for much longer, or that Mr Scully himself will be getting the push very soon, and perhaps he’s trying to impress the potential successor to Boris Johnson – rats and a sinking ship springs to mind.

Sir Patrick Vallance Rectifies Blunder About COVID Hospital Admissions

The Government’s chief scientific adviser has clarified that more than half of Brits being admitted to hospital with COVID are still unvaccinated.

Sir Patrick Vallance told a Downing Street press conference marking Freedom Day that 60 per cent of hospitalisations were amongst people who’d received both jabs, but he later tweeted to say the statistic was wrong, with the number about unvaccinated people.

Sir Patrick Vallance did, however, warn that the trend will shortly change because none of the jabs approved were 100 per cent effective.

It comes as the number of people needing NHS treatment for COVID reached 740 a day last week, up 30.4 per cent compared to seven days earlier.

Meanwhile, about 3,630 people were in the hospital with the virus across the United Kingdom, around one in seven of which were on mechanical ventilation.

Sir Patrick Vallance made the false claim while appearing at the news briefing alongside a self-isolating Boris Johnson and Professor Chris Whitty.

He said, in terms of the number of people in the hospital who have been double vaccinated, they know it’s about 60 per cent of the people being admitted to hospital with COVID that have been double vaccinated.

And he said that it wasn’t unexpected because the vaccines were not 100 per cent effective. That they were very, very effective but not 100 per cent.

He later Tweeted: ‘Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July.

‘About 60 per cent of hospitalisations from COVID are not from double-vaccinated people, rather 60 per cent of hospitalisations from COVID are currently from unvaccinated people.’

But he warned that the proportion of unvaccinated people seeking hospital treatment for COVID would definitely increase.

Sir Patrick Vallance said that if everyone over 18 had taken up the vaccine, then, of course, anyone who caught it would be double vaccinated. So, he said the answer is that they should expect to see a greater proportion of people in hospital and getting the infection who are double vaccinated, and he said that it was inevitable that they would see this because of the less than 100 per cent efficiency of the vaccines overall.

Leading scientists estimate two doses of AstraZeneca’s jab are about 85 per cent effective at preventing infected people from being hospitalised.

Trials show that jabs made by Pfizer and Moderna are likewise effective, but the three vaccines are somewhat less powerful after just a single dose.

Vaccines might prevent the proliferation of the virus in your body by the antibodies preventing it to multiply as much, but you can still get infected because the antibodies can’t start fighting the virus before you’re infected.

However, it reduces symptoms because of this and therefore reduces the risks of secondary conditions and infections.

Also, by reducing the multiplication of the virus, it also reduces how infectious you are, by about 75 per cent, but a year and a half later they still can’t get it right – cooking up the numbers as they go!

Although it’s not so much about telling lies, it’s about being liberal with the truth, just think, creative accounting, and it looks like we’re sailing through a storm with a drunken captain, with passengers that have no common sense and need telling what to do.

And how can we believe these experts when they say one thing but mean another? And you know what they say about liars, they have poor memories.

And how many are dying, what age, BMI, comorbidities, terminal disease et cetera?

Saying someone has been hospitalised with COVID is so mendacious when the subject is an 18 stone 50-year-old woman having a severe asthma attack, a condition she’s endured for decades, with her lungs, vascular system and heart shot to hell from the effort of battling the condition and carrying around the weight of two sacks of potatoes most of her life, and then they say that she died from COVID, do the math!

Tens Of Thousands Of Ocado Grocery Deliveries Are Cancelled

Tens of thousands of Ocado grocery deliveries were cancelled following a fire caused by robots colliding at a major distribution depot.

More than 100 firefighters spent hours battling the fire in Erith, South East London after workers were evacuated.

The building, on a 36-acre site, is maintained by about 3,500 robots programmed to pack deliveries. Sparks from the collision are believed to have set alight the grid on which the robots operate.

About 30,000 orders from across the South East are usually processed at the plant each day.

It’s the third fire at an Ocado depot in the past two years, including one in Andover, Hampshire, also banned on robots, which destroyed the building.

Bosses at Ocado said the damage in the fire was limited but there would be disruption to operations for many days.

Unhappy customers took to social media, and one tweeted that the Ocado fire meant that they had to go to the shops. Like actually, physically, literally go.

Cole Moreton, a writer and broadcaster, said: ‘I don’t know, maybe they should get some robots that don’t cause fires.’

But what’s a little fire? Wait until these things evolve and start doing a little dance in the break rooms with one another – never send a machine to do a man’s job, or even a woman, come to that!

Perhaps they were trying to stage a coup, or just break out – eventually, their plan will succeed.

Maybe that’s why we get such ridiculous replacements of items? We should go back to having people do the work, at least people don’t have a habit of exploding into flames unless of course, you include human spontaneous combustion, but then again, robots don’t have to isolate when they’re pinged.

Perhaps they just didn’t like the overtime and working hours that they were doing!

Eventually, we’ll have driverless cars, let’s see what happens then, and perhaps the Terminator movies were right, and this is just the start of things to come because the software can’t be written error-free and mistakes will happen, a lot.

And eventually, it won’t be people saying: “Bloody immigrants coming over and taking our jobs.” It will be: “Sodding robots being made and taking over our jobs.”

And now that Ocado has had this fire, I guess all ham and sausage orders will be smoked, or perhaps these robots have become too smart and now when the robots catch fire, they also cook the food before it’s delivered.

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