Shopping Center Silences Abusive Scales

[zzyzzx]

Shopping Center Silences Abusive Scales
January 16, 2002 11:05 am EST

CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) - A weighing machine that told a woman "get off fat pig" and abused a man who had put on some weight over Christmas has been hastily removed from a busy Australian shopping center.
Management of the Greensborough Plaza in northeast Melbourne pulled the plug on the coin-operated scales after several customers complained about offensive comments on printouts detailing their weight, height and body mass.

One 176-pound man was stunned to read on his printout: "You are a little overweight. Fat xxxx."

Although his wife was offended, he was nonplussed.

"I was more worried about my weight than the message," Greensborough resident Bruce Hamilton told reporters.

The shopping center, managed by Australian property group Lend Lease Corp., removed the machine immediately.

"The comments that the machine spat out were offensive and it was removed immediately and is being examined by the supplier," spokeswoman Melanie Shelton told Reuters.

"A preliminary audit indicated someone had tampered with the machine and altered its usual messages such a Happy Christmas and Happy New Year."

[bilbogod]

The disgruntled pig, found an exciting way to exact her revenge on the smirking sales assistant :-





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[Bud]

Now the secret is out........we found Bin Lauden

[d4n13l]

Other messages it printed out were:
"To be continued..."
"Please insert ANOTHER coin"
"Its a rollover"

[pacmania_2001]

"One at a time please"
"You are the right weight... for an aircraft carrier"

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