Forum » Topic: Stratford shopkeeper jailed for answering telephone after '5 rings' http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45797 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 04:00:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php button on "Stratford shopkeeper jailed for answering telephone after '5 rings'" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45797#post-131742 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:30:46 +0000 button 131742@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Really like the idea, needs expanding a bit to make it long enough for a NiB. </p> Underconstruction on "Stratford shopkeeper jailed for answering telephone after '5 rings'" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45797#post-131731 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:34:04 +0000 Underconstruction 131731@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>An East End shopkeeper has been sentenced to five years in prison, after admitting breaching stringent trading rules around Olympic Games related intellectual property.<br /> Sixty Eight year old Sebastion Croeney admitted to deliberately allowing his Nokia handset to play the first five bars of Spandau Ballet's 'Gold', in an attempt to boost sales of union jack ironing board covers in his pound shop.<br /> In summing up, Lord Justice Earnest Person told Croeney that he had 'crossed the line', before he himself was led away for questioning by representatives of Coca Cola and Dow Chemicals. </p>