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The following is a email I received recently from a disgruntled Tesco Customer, it would appear that his disgruntlement is justified as they poisoned him! Here is the email detailing what happened and how little Tesco appear to care about their customers.

This is a true story, I can send scanned confessions on Tesco headed paper
if you wish my dear friend, I am half Irish, half Indian - born in the UK
and poisoned by Tesco in Bangkok Thailand - I can supply lots of stories,
I expect to sue Tesco for a phenomenal sum over the next few months

 Importance: High
 Sensitivity: Confidential

 Poisoned Twix bars from Tesco

 This is the story a British man severely poisoned by a Twix chocolate bar,
 as he felt his life slipping away from him he saw the helpless innocent
 children dying due to this most deadly chocolate. The sad saga escalates
 as Tesco is slow to withdraw the terrible Twix from the shelves of death and
 the guilty party starts using threats and coercion.

The incredible incident began brewing on the evening of Friday May the
10th 2002 when I purchased my groceries at Tesco Rama 3, this was my regular
shopping haunt as I had moved into a new condominium based partly on the
fact that it was located conveniently close to Tesco.

When I was at the checkout I noticed a chocolate display that had my all
time favorite since childhood - a good ole Twix bar. Twix bars were often
of poor quality in Bangkok most often probably due to heat exposure, in 7-11
the chocolate often shows evidence of melting and re-solidifying
subsequent to manufacture. The packaging on the Twix seemed fresh and shiny and I had
already picked up a dozen cartons of soy milk and knew that they did
indeed complement each other nicely for a midnight snack.

As midnight approached it was time for my snack and I got my Vitamilk and
Twix from the fridge and reclined in my armchair to enjoy my supper. I
took a bite of the Twix and started chewing, seconds later a pungent aromatic
organic smell filled my nasal cavities and surprised me - something was
obviously wrong. I ran to the bathroom to wash out my mouth and felt
nauseous, fearing that I would pass out I returned to my seat to regain my
senses. It was very puzzling indeed, as I thought frantically how on earth
could they smell like benzene I started to feel my chest going tight and
started to asphyxiate, I could breath in but not out. Even though
something was seriously wrong with the Twix I was helpless, I could feel myself
blacking out and thought that I was dying, as the light faded I said my
prayers, I prayed for justice and prayed for mankind.

Hours later I regained consciousness, I pinched myself to perform a
reality check and felt a sigh of relief - I had survived. I could hardly believe
what had happened, I smelt the Twix wrapper but there was nothing
suspicious. I decided to taste a tiny bit of the Twix chocolate to
discover whether or not it was at fault, after sampling a tiny piece in the
bathroom and getting that tell tale smell again it was plainly clear that my
chocolate had definitely been adulterated. I washed my mouth out
thoroughly and as I was still feeling light-headed went to lie down.

It was night time and there was not a lot that I could do until the store
opened when I could warn them of the danger. I was shocked when I called
Tesco and found that they could not do anything, as their manager was not
there. I contacted Effem the distributor of the chocolate and they told me
that they would send an officer to withdraw the suspect product. My
stomach regularly started convulsions and heaving on an empty stomach was
extremely painful, I could feel the gastric juices being pushed up my larynx and
burning my throat, my neck had started to swell and felt hard.
The following week my throat was still swollen, Tesco had come round with
a basket of fruit to apologize but I was not in the mood for the fruit and
so distributed it in dribs and drabs to various security guards in the condo where I live.

Effem explained verbally over the phone and then by visiting me and
finally
in writing on headed paper signed by their Regional supply director that
Tesco had used concentrated industrial warehouse floor cleaner to remove
price stickers. Tesco subsequently wrote stating that they believed that this was the
cause of the poisoning, they also arranged for me to meet their internal
lawyer - Steve Purser. When I went to see Steve Purser he shook my hard extremely
hard almost crushing it as he spoke in an intimidating voice. He expressed
anger at me for making noise about the issue and explained that he felt
that Tesco was a victim of an internal terrorist attack. I told him that I was
the real victim and he took me to see the bottle of floor cleaner in the
Tesco warehouse. The floor cleaner came in a big bottle and had a skull
and
 crossbones Hazardous chemical warning clearly on the bottle. I opened the
bottle and there was a hiss as vapours pressured through the loosened lid,
the stench that came from the bottle was indeed the same smell as in the
poisoned Twix bars being sold by Tesco. The instructions on the floor cleaner gave clear warnings, the floor cleaner was also supposed to be heavily diluted before use.

Tesco tried to make me believe that a young innocent untrained boy from
the rice fields was responsible for the poisoning incident. I asked the staff
there if they received training as to how to safely deal with foodstuffs
and they explained that they had not received any such training whatsoever. I
was very saddened by this total lack of corporate responsibility and told Tesco that I would like to know how t

I do not particularly like doctors and this can be easily understood by looking at three simple facts:

 1) I have not had vaccinations against diseases as a child like other children and my entire body is totally void of any evidence of vaccination or needle scars. This is because my ancestors lived natural lives and
unlike capitalist consumers were allergic to modern medicine.
2) I had to undergo extremely painful operations as a child, which left me mentally scarred, and with an even stronger phobia of doctors.

3) Since my horrific operation on my throat, inner ears and nasal cavities
 

I have avoided hospitals and doctors and have only visited in cases of
broken bones as a quick in and out visitor. My friends recommended that I visit a doctor as more than a week passed
and my throat was still swollen. I thought that a visit would not do to much harm and I plucked up the courage to go. I was terrified and almost
fainted when I heard that I must take a blood test. The first time I went to see
the nurse I almost vomited and had to sit down and collect myself for over 2 hours before mustering up the courage to visit the nurse. Even though I felt my body tensing like a rock I knew that for the sake of all the poor children the poisoned chocolate from Tesco that I had to let my blood be drawn.
 

Tesco had promised to get back to me with details of the poison and how it
reacts with cocoa butter to produce even deadlier poisons, they also
promised to let me know about the side effects and after affects of these
poisons, this they never did and so I felt compelled in the interests of
mankind to pursue by filing complaints with the Thai FDA at the Ministry
of Public Health and Welfare, the Thai Consumer Protection Agency and the
Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police.
 

These complaints soon disappeared as Tesco confessed in writing that Mars
in Australia had found traces of solvent contamination in the Mars bars that were on sale at Tesco Lotus Rama 3. The case progresses reports and evidence has been scanned and copies of
the evidence can be found here as soon as i have time to post them!
The case has been submitted to numerous Thai authorities and it is
surprising that justice is not forthcoming.

The Scanned Documents relating to this case!                                                                               

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