Lawyers for a premiership footballer have been instructed to sue the owners of ‘Aqua-Chill’, a leading office water supplier for the Luton area, as the placement of water-coolers encourages malicious gossip and ill-informed innuendo.
Piers Holden, partner in Daggit, Doggit and Dang, says that his client “is sickened by the thought that every Monday break time, office workers are gathering around to sip from tiny cones of water and discuss his personal humpings. Not only is this an invasion of privacy but it is a blatant attempt by water-cooling companies to boost their profits on the back of my client's suffering”.
Jim Parfitt, MD of Aqua-Chill said they would defend the charge rigourously but in the mean time they will ask all of the companies they supply, “to add the sachet of strawberry jelly that comes with every water-cooler to staunch its flow in a case of emergency”.
