A colostomy, if you aren’t familiar, is a surgery where the large intestine is re-routed, with the exit to the patient’s digestive system relocated to a surgeon-created hole on the abdomen, which can then either empty into a bag or be covered. Yes, it means that the patient walks around with a bag of their own poo hanging from their waist. The surgery can be done to treat cancer, Chrohn’s disease, or other serious large intestine issues.
Where this caused problems for both men in our tale today was when store employees saw the bulge in their clothing and assumed that they were stealing. The man in Wales was accused of wandering off with a pair of pants tucked under his sweater. An employee of clothing store Next insisted on seeing what the bulge was.
“I felt forced to show him that underneath my jumper was my colostomy bag,” he told reporters, “and I told him that he had discriminated against me, he denied this.” The store later offered him 500 pounds (about $780) in compensation.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina, two men are accused of stealing steaks from a Food Lion store, with one using his colostomy bag to conceal canvas bags filled with steak. Police later apprehended the suspects and the steaks, using license plate information and with store surveillance footage to back them up.
Next gives dad £500 after asking him to show colostomy bag in shoplifting suspicion [ITV]
Man shoplifted steaks in colostomy bag, deputies say [WYFF]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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