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Shoppers tricked into licking Poundworld staff's feet for cruel prank

Shoppers tricked into licking Poundworld staff's feet for cruel prank
Shoppers tricked into licking Poundworld staff's feet for cruel prank

ReedeFox > 26/02/2020, 13:50

Imagine popping into your local Poundworld for a mooch around and you end up being coerced to lick the feet of staff members and be ridden around like a horsey? Sound nuts right? Well that’s exactly what happened to two women after they popped into Poundworld in Barnstaple, Devon.

A mother and her grown-up daughter were minding their own business in Poundworld when they were suddenly roped into a weird prank that involved staff riding them like horses under the premise that they would win £3000 if they completed the tasks. Apparently the whole prank was set up by a random caller who phoned the shop claiming to be a charity in Ireland and that he needed staff to close the shop for a ‘team training exercise’ that would then require entering two customers into a competition.

It clearly shows the level of intelligence of the Poundworld staff because not one of those plebs thought to call head office to check. With the shop now closed, the staff then convinced Naomi Desmond and her mum Pamela to enter the ‘competition’. The guy on the phone then set out a bunch of tasks that the women had to complete in order to receive and the money which included having string tied around their ears and having their faces drawn on in pen and being splashed with water. They were also asked to crawl on their hands and knees so they could be ridden like horses by staff and perhaps the most degrading part, they had to lick the feet of staff members. Eww

You’d think the women or even the staff would guess that something fishy was going on when the staff were ordered to only refer to the two women as ‘Ugly’ and ‘Beast’ but nope, not a sausage. After completing all their tasks, the women were told by the caller they ‘should go home and await their £3000 winnings.’ When the money didn’t show up, the women then received another call from the guy who had taken all their details earlier, and told them to go back to Poundworld to win even more money. At the promise of more free money, the women pop back to Poundworld but discovered the shop was closed so the caller asked them to crawl around on their hands and knees in the street for an hour instead.

It wasn’t until the following day when Poundworld staff called the head office staff that they realised it had all been a big hoax. Here’s what mum Pamela had to say about her ordeal, which is made even worse at the fact that she only has one arm:

Quote:At first it was funny – like a game show. It all happened on the shop floor.They were asked to get on to our backs and they rode us up and down the aisle like a horse race.But afterwards we felt embarrassed. We genuinely thought it was head office.I’m disabled so that makes it even worse – and the caller knew

Daughter Naomi said:

Quote:We are both too scared to go into Poundworld now.

Here’s what Poundworld’s spokesman had to say:

Quote:We apologise unreservedly to our customers for their experience at our Barnstaple store, which our team also fell victim of. The incident has been referred to the police and we are assisting them with their enquiries.

Pamela and Naomi now plan to sue Poundworld, who have only offered them a measly £200 which is a bit of a pisstake really. I know they were w bit gullible but the staff should have called head office immediately and not put these poor women through the most embarrassing ringer of all time. This story kind kind of reminds me of that movie, Compliance, which sees a woman at work agreeing to search an employee after a ‘policeman’ calls and claims she’s is a thief. It’s fucking nuts and is actually loosely based on a true story. Check out the trailer below:
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