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“When I started taking my clothes off, a man said ‘You can’t do that in here!’,” says Ian Robinson, 43. The former mail carrier was at the Jobcentre in Bridlington, England, and his purpose was protest. “So I went over and glued myself to his desk,” Robinson continued. He says he’s upset that he had not been awarded government benefits over the pain he suffers from arthritis, so he resorted to a mid-morning Full Monty. “A society is judged on how it treats the sick and leaving them without disability benefit is criminal,” he says. The Jobcentre called police and an ambulance, so Robinson pried himself up because “I didn’t want to put the ambulance people to the trouble.” This was not Robinson’s first protest: he also glued himself to a counter at a department store over a dispute with his bill. (RC/Yorkshire Post) ...I protest the department store too: the glue they sell clearly isn’t strong enough.
Original Publication Date: 06 November 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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