Spare a thought for 58 year old German bus driver Jochen Lorenz who has been sacked after being spotted taking a roll of toilet paper from the bus depot lavatory.
Spare a thought for 58 year old German bus driver Jochen Lorenz who has been sacked after being spotted taking a roll of toilet paper from the bus depot lavatory.
According to DW World.DE:
Lorenz had arrived at work for his shift at 5:30 a.m., feeling a little under the weather with stomach cramps. He made an emergency visit to the loo shortly before taking his seat at the helm of his bus and, fearing he may be caught short on the route, took a roll from the cubicle just in case."I was feeling ill when I arrived at the bus depot. Stomach problems," Lorenz told the Bild Zeitung newspaper. "So I went to the lavatory. Things didn't get better so I took a roll of toilet paper and put it in the bus. I wanted to have some during the drive in case of an emergency."
The eye-in-the-sky, however, did not look favorably on this. The surveillance cameras had been installed by the powers that be to monitor strict control of toilet paper usage, among other things. This fact, unbeknownst to Lorenz at the time, was made glaringly and painfully obvious when he received his marching orders.