Disgruntled bedding receiver gets 16 months in prison
Published: 01 October 2009
If you were to get bedding delivered to you badly, what would you do? Drink a bottle of whisky and then drive into the side of a Tesco supermarket? Doubtful. One man, however, did.
A moment of madness from a man making his own supermarket tribute to the Blues Brothers has been given 16 months in prison.After bedding was not delivered to him correctly by Tesco Direct, 50-year-old Robert Caton thought the only way he could truly show his annoyance was to drink the best part of a bottle of whisky, get into his Rolls Royce and drive through the glass windows of a Tesco supermarket in Andover, Hampshire.
Checkouts were punted yards down the store after two of the later stalls were destroyed by the man's huge car, with both biscuits and confectionary getting the rough end of the bargain as the aisle they were in sustained heavy damage.
And like the Blues Brothers movie, no-one was badly hurt, despite the carnage that ensued over bedding, though Hob-Nobs no doubt saw it as a dark day in their otherwise faultless history.
Bedding ended up saving Xavier Bouldin's life earlier this month, when the inhabitant of Fayetteville in North Carolina saw a car going through his bedroom wall, though his mattress rolled up and pardoned him from being crushed.
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