Things customers leave in shops: the 1810 version

[TressiliansStone]

Think you're having a bad day in retail? Be glad you're not this tobacconist in Georgian Edinburgh...

GD237 Records of Messrs Tods Murray and Jamieson WS, lawyers, Edinburgh [1331]-1937
Repository: National Records of Scotland
Reference: GD237/21/55
Title: Miscellaneous papers
Dates: 1810-1819
Description
Including:
1. 1810 June 18. Edinburgh
Petition of George Cotton to the Lord Provost and magistrates of the city of Edinburgh, asking that they may remove a hamper containing human bones left with petitioner by a woman of decent appearance accompanied by a porter, in petitioner's shop.

That's so creepy!

Worst thing I found when working in retail was a human turd. First day on my first job.
Cctv showed the guy shake it out his trouser leg.

(^Definitely not envy.)

You'll be relieved to learn the magistrates issued a warrant the very next day, "allowing petitioner to bury the bones."

Clearly the town authorities could pull their fingers out when the need arose. Or maybe just a couple of phalanges.

Phew, I am glad that she was a woman of decent appearance. Imagine how shocking this incident could have been if she had been a right slovenly minger!

My first job was in Debenhams. We were tidying the home ware department and noticed a terrible smell, turns out someone had done a shit in a vase and put it back on the shelf

Also found a turd in ladies changing room once....

So it looks like turds and retails go hand in hand 😂

I've heard of this crapping in a shop thing but in my whole life I've thankfully never experienced it. May I offer up a used sanitary towel? In a shop in Brighton.

@TressiliansStone

You'll be relieved to learn the magistrates issued a warrant the very next day, "allowing petitioner to bury the bones."

Clearly the town authorities could pull their fingers out when the need arose. Or maybe just a couple of phalanges.

I love that the magistrate basically said "Found a box of human remains? No probs, feel free to bury them yourself"!

Shit filled knickers in the ladies changing room. Shit filled nappy in a demonstration pram. Perhaps someone needs to open a business called ‘Crap in a Shop’ and cut out the middle man.

An ex colleague caught someone masturbating in the men's fitting rooms. Colleague is Russian, man was Russian, she over heard his telephone conversation and stood outside the cubicle telling him to leave, he left but not before he finished.

@Houseofvelour

So it looks like turds and retails go hand in hand 😂

No! No no no! No turds in the hand!

Definitely not better than a turd in the bush.

And there's another image I didn't need before lunch.-

Weird thing about the shit in the vase is that the home department was right next to the toilets. Obviously done by choice rather than caught short.

Perhaps someone needs to open a business called ‘Crap in a Shop’ and cut out the middle man.

I guess it would not be as much fun as when you might be caught out!

Diy store - display toilets and children. Used to have cleaning products handy for the parents to clean up.

Oh yes, I've heard about people crapping in the display toilets at B & Q

This thread is turning out substantially more disturbing than I'd imagined.

And that's after starting with human remains.

I'll offer up my son, left him in the opticians, In my defence he was weeks old and I was suffering from anaemia and the brain dog that goes with it. It was a minute max.