BO problem gets violent

[Hellion]

Nothing surprises me anymore

Worker punched after confronting man about odor

AP - Wed Apr 21st, 2010 6:10 PM EDT

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Police said a Cost Cutter store employee was punched in the mouth after he confronted a customer about his body odor . Police spokesman Mark Young told The Bellingham Herald that police went to the store after a report of a fight and found employees holding down a man.

The newspaper said customers apparently complained while the man was in the store Sunday, and the employee decided to discuss it with him when he returned the next day.

Young said the store employee was not going to ask him to leave the store, but only approached him to share the complaints. Young said the man snapped and threw a bunch of batteries and punched the worker, causing a minor injury.

[IsleofRhodesEnt]

HA!

[Simon Bar Sinister]

good thing those people weren't at the Gogol Bordello show tonight. They would've started a fucking riot.

[Oh_My_Goth]

What right does someone have to confront a customer about that?... An employee, yes, but not a customer.

Perhaps he is stinky for a reason.. I went to school with an Indian girl who smelled HORRID because of the types of food her family cooked, and she was not allowed to wear deodorant.

[IsleofRhodesEnt]

What right does someone have to confront a customer about that?... An employee, yes, but not a customer.

Perhaps he is stinky for a reason.. I went to school with an Indian girl who smelled HORRID because of the types of food her family cooked, and she was not allowed to wear deodorant.

If it because a complaint from other customers, then yes, they have a right to say something. Kroger does it, that much I know. Bars will do it.

[Hellion]

Why should I or anyone else be subjected to someone elses stank,there is a difference between a work smell and a refuse to shower smell(lack of hygiene),I worked with someone who refused to shower and other employees complained about his BO as well.

I just avoid stinky people alltogether

Edited April 22, 2010 by Hellion

[candyman]

Oh man I don't know how many times there have been small bar fights because one drunken idiot gets mad when people tell him he stinks...and that is just the BO that people can smell over the cigarette smoke. I just hope they start to burn incense or alot of candles at the bars pretty soon when my smoke won't sheild my nostrils...

The lesson learned here is that smelly people that don't have a good reason for it are violent...not just the BO people but the ones that wear a TON of alcohol based scents...

[TheGimp]

i agree with a lot of this i dont wanna be shoppin for dinner and have some dudes BO lingering around...in highschool we played football and wrestled with this guy from our school and he was just a lazy fucker about his hygeine he admited to not showerin for a day or two and admited he dosent like deoderant and it was hard to practice with this kid when you have a stinky smelly body near you

[~Tszura~]

The customers violent reaction, I believe, is not the typical reaction someone would give. Maybe that dude just had a hard day, or has other mental health issues which were not considered.

I probably wouldn't say anything because I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I've been around some stanky arse people before where I actually thought I was going to vomit. My sense of smell is dull, so when even I can smell ya, its bad. Peeeew!

Aside from me not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings, I think its ok to approach the subject of body odor with people provided that its in the right way, considering, as mush as possible, the persons cognitive status, culture, lifestyle, and emotional/mental health and well-being. Just walking up to someone to say, "Hey dude, you need to take a shower," is inconsiderate, disrespectful, and just not cool.