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Woman fined for spending 3 hours in kfc

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ChopsTheDuck · 02/10/2008 10:39

Jamie Oliver should have gone to Huddersfield here

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nailpolish · 02/10/2008 12:34

she didnt get fined for sitting in kfc
she got fined cos the car park has a restriction of 75 mins and she broke that
i think thats fair enough
her problem she didnt see the signs

how are kfc supposed to know she was in their restaurant that entire time

FioFio · 02/10/2008 12:35

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ChopsTheDuck · 02/10/2008 12:35

at unlikely to get up a tree!

I don't think it is funny to laugh at people who are overweight, but eating a couple of days calorific intake in one sitting is asking for ridicule.

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TotalChaos · 02/10/2008 12:35

But - I always understood those parking fines were to stop people parking in KFC then going off round anytown High St for several hours - so it seems wrongly targetted. Mind you maybe KFC doesn't want customers in for over an hour anyway

FioFio · 02/10/2008 12:35

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nailpolish · 02/10/2008 12:35

yes they are Fio and they have problems carrying out some fo their duties

ChopsTheDuck · 02/10/2008 12:36

well it is suppsoed to be fast food...

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FioFio · 02/10/2008 12:36

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ChopsTheDuck · 02/10/2008 12:36

well it is suppsoed to be fast food...

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zippitippitoes · 02/10/2008 12:37

well no thats why they have uncomfortable seats and bright colours and noisy accoustics in fast food places it is all designed to make you move quickly they need fast turn over to maximise margin per sq foot

onepieceoflollipop · 02/10/2008 12:37

nailpolish it depends on what type of "trainee nurse" she is.

Fwiw I could easily do my job if I was obese/overweight. However I am office based and do a lot of talking type therapy. (that's why we get a lot of chance to eat crap treats while we are doing paperwork etc - I couldn't do it in a traditional ward setting )

Perhaps if she was a general nurse on a ward that required a lot of hands on, physical care, she may find it difficult. However one would imagine that like all of us she knows her physical limitations (be they due to weight or other circumstances). I would imagine she would not apply for jobs that she felt unable to do properly.

ChopsTheDuck · 02/10/2008 12:38

I do wonder how they do manage. I did care work and I'd can't imagine how on earth I'd have cared and lifted for patients with a belly that size in the way.

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FioFio · 02/10/2008 12:38

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onebatmother · 02/10/2008 12:38

i got a fine for staying too long in TK maxx

2hrs

nailpolish · 02/10/2008 12:40

well if she is a trainee nurse she will be on the wards

onepieceoflollipop · 02/10/2008 12:42

Chops NHS policy is that no one should be actually lifting patients except in an emergency.

If a nurse/carer is working in an NHS setting where they would reasonably be expected to move/lift/handle patients on a regular basis, then appropriate moving and handling equipment should be provided. (I appreciate that this doesn't always happen but this is what is supposed to happen)

However I do take the point that some nursing duties require a lot of physical effort and exertion that some unfit and/or overweight staff may find a struggle.

mindalina · 02/10/2008 12:42

I really think she has set herself up for a bit of a pasting here. I honestly don't give a flying fuck about how much people weigh or what they eat but I do think it is spectacularly dim of a very overweight person to go to the papers with a story like this. She must have known the paper would make her look a knob.

And also, it is a parking fine - surely it is completely unrelated to KFC? I would imagine the car park is run by a different company entirely.

zippitippitoes · 02/10/2008 12:44

my experience of the nhs is that there isnt room to swing a cat in most clinical situations and wards

except mental health where they seem to alloccate a lot more space

onepieceoflollipop · 02/10/2008 12:44

If she is a trainee Mental Health or Paediatric of Learning Disability nurse then she won't be needing to lift/move adult patients on a regular basis.

As far as I can see the report doesn't specify but some of as are assuming she is training to be a general nurse.

ChopsTheDuck · 02/10/2008 12:47

she posed outside kfc with arms the size of elephant legs bursting out of her vest top. She must have known she was going to get a pasting. She is a student and probably did it for the money.

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nailpolish · 02/10/2008 12:52

yes that is a possibility lollipop but she will at some point have done adult nurse training

even in a paediatric ward you ahve to run for the defib
and in all aspects of nursing you ahve to give nutritional and wellbeing advice. she would be a bit of a hypocrite partaking in that

FioFio · 02/10/2008 12:55

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SaintRiven · 02/10/2008 12:58

gosh. All the judging! I'm going to judge that Chops actually read The Sun

Oliveoil · 02/10/2008 13:01

her dog may have been run over on the way back from the funeral and she may have got in the house to a burst water main

have a think before you post people

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