UK News: A disgruntled employee, fired by Harrods from his job as the toy department’s Father Christmas, took revenge last night in spectacular style.
Gaining access to a maintenance control room, Lloyd Hudson, 35, from Ilford, Essex, was able to locate the chart and corresponding switches for Harrods’ 10,000 external lights.
Barracading himself in, Hudson disabled the correct lights until he could spell out his feelings to Harrods bosses and Christmas shoppers alike. He was removed by security guards after an hour-long stand-off, then handed over to police.
“He had drunk the best part of two bottles of whisky,” said a spokesperson for the iconic London store, “and it’s that kind of behaviour that got him the sack in the first place.” Hudson has since been released on police bail.
Knightsbridge visitors were stunned.
“Honestly, I am disgusted, ” said Irene Rider, 59, from Gary, Indiana. “I was with my grandchildren. We had just gotten off the bus. I said ‘look everybody’ and pointed up to the lights – but you know what the lights said? They said f**k off. And that is not an appropriate message for a child. At least not at Christmastime.”
Story: Jasper Gibson
Image: Q4Nobody
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I had a rough day!
I think my favourite part of this is the ‘typical disgruntled American tourist’ textbite. Brilliant. Hope this is true.
cheeky sod, hes going on my naughty list.
This DID NOT happen. The lights were green last year. They are white this year.
“And that is not an appropriate message for a child. At least not at Christmastime.”
Haha, maybe only appropriate for easter?
what a blag, nice editeding though, as i know harrods had green lights last year for wizard of Oz, and they are white this year, but amazing how quick bullshit spreads online lol x
Perhaps the tourist should have read the message before they told the kids to look
@Wert: Really?! I thought a site with the title “UK Spoof News, Comedy, Funny Pictures, Photoshops and Videos” could be trusted for it’s journalistic integrity!
Amazing how quickly this has become ‘the truth’ on twitter LOL
reminds me of mr. bean lol
Hey guys, this is fake. I can tell by the pixels.
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Haha impressive – after two bottles of whiskey would expect something like F U R R C O F
Haha, great!!!
‘barrAcading’?
perhaps double dutch ?
lol @ FURR COF, which has includes it’s own bit of humor.
Funny as…
Hope he gets as much support as the WikiLeaks owner.
Americans don’t typically refer to the season as ‘Christmastime’.
photoshop job
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Ever had a kid pee in your lap? It drove me to drink, (3 1/2 yrs. sober.)
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Isn’t the world wonderful!! I love this! I think that he was pretty clever considering that he was apparently drunk.
Debunked.
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/photos/harrods.asp
ROFL @ the people thinking it could be real. Funny story.
Though the last part doesn’t even make sense… Gary, Indiana is such an unforgiving shit-hole it’s impossible to think that somebody from that town could actually afford to go to another country, or be offended by such a thing. They see worse things in the local graffiti every single day. If you’re going to take a jab at America, go with New York or something next time.