Prices can be pretty high these days, you can’t always
afford everything you want. We get it. That’s why haggling is a thing; it
pretty much never works, but occasionally you’ll get a couple of quid knocked
off just by asking. Or so we hear, we’ve never actually seen it happen. But a
man in Manchester liked his chances and thought he’d try asking for £1 off when
he tried to buy 2 bottles of beer.
Can you guess what happened next? Yes okay, the title gives
that twist away; they said no. So he did what any reasonable man would have
done and whipped out a gun. Pointing the weapon at the shop assistant, he was
informed by them that the police were on their way, as they’d presumably
pressed a panic button. Because telling an irrational idiot holding a gun to
you something that he won’t want to hear seems like a solid plan.
But it worked out okay, because the unidentified man then
cemented his identity as “nuts” but saying simply “I don’t want that”, and the
paying £3 for just one of the beers. Oh and then he calmly put his change in
the charity box and left. Nothing weird about that at all.
CCTV footage:
Ari Carrington
