A friend who worked in hospitality once gave me some sage advice: Be nice to the staff, otherwise you’ll end be eating a lot of spit and drinking a lot of pee. Not that I needed any warning: having worked my share of service jobs in my life, being polite just comes natural.
Not for some people, though. They have to learn the hard way.
Like an obviously wealthy – and apparently mean – family in India.
Reena Kumar, a domestic helper in India, was unhappy at constantly being reprimanded by her employer.
So, she got her own back in time-honoured fashion.
In an act of revenge, the 32-year-old mixed her urine into dough meant for making chapati and rotis, reportedly causing the family to fall ill.
She had been working with the family for eight years, Times of India reported.
That’s a whole lot piss-chapatis. Enough that, even in a country where shitting in the street is a national pastime, folks are going to get a bit of a wobbly belly.
It all began when the family was getting worried that a few members in the household were facing health issues.
Upon recommendation by a doctor, the family decided to eat only home-cooked food, in hopes of their conditions improving.
Perhaps the doc was a devotee of Krishna, notorious for his mischievous sense of humour.
However, there was little to no change to their health situation.
The family’s suspicions were aroused as Reena was the only person who prepared their food at home.
A CCTV camera was discreetly installed in the kitchen, and the family was shocked by what they saw.
Well, as Hunter S Thompson wrote, That is the weak reed, a cruel and incurable problem the rich have never solved – how to live in peace with the servants. When you’re paying the maid the equivalent of $40 NZD per week, it probably pays to be nice, as well.
Still, servants are, to your average wealthy Subcontinental, perhaps a rung above animals (cows excepted). No one has to pay them, except in food. Still, it pays to be nice, even to animals.
Because even the most cowed, caged animal, not least wily cetaceans, will find ways of getting back at pesky humans that would surprise even an Indian domestic.
SeaWorld San Antonio guests were left with a terrible taste in their mouths after a killer whale splashed feces on them during an orca show performance.
The entire ordeal was caught on camera. In the clip, the killer whale is seen swimming around and preparing to do its next trick.
However, just as it was making its way across the tank, the animal noticeably pooped. It continued on and within a few seconds, reappeared and jumped. Upon landing, the feces water splashed everywhere, including on numerous SeaWorld San Antonio guests.
Bravo, Free Willy, bravo.
Immediately after the incident, SeaWorld San Antonio quickly led impacted guests to a designated decontamination location. They then received bottled water, soap, and towels. All of which were used for cleaning off the killer whale feces.
In addition to the cleaning supplies, impacted guests were also able to purchase clean clothes from the park’s gift shop and use the park’s bathing facilities.
Suddenly, a whole bunch of people got an up-close lesson on just how poopy nature really is. Newsflash, folks: animals shit. A lot. Sometimes, in your general direction.
“It was shocking. We expected to get wet sitting so close, but not like that. It smelled awful, and people were gagging,” Samantha King, a SeaWorld guest who witnessed the killer whale incident, recalled per Times Now News.
Consider it audience participation.
