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Who on here fakes their emissions? Who drops one and then glares at and waves their hands towards a co-worker?
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I do enjoy egg and cress sandwichesOriginally posted by FatLazyContractor View PostWhat's funny?
Isn't that what happens everytime your clan open their mouth?
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What's funny?
Isn't that what happens everytime your clan open their mouth?
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Talking of emissions
Barack Obama's cousin suing Scotland Yard for £400,000 over claims officers deliberately broke wind next to her - Mirror Online
One of Barack Obama's cousins is suing the Met Police for £400,000 pounds over claims colleagues subjected her to a campaign of harassment and passed wind next to her desk.
Marie Auma told a court that officers and staff at Southwark Police Station conspired to bully her - with two officers regularly breaking wind near her in a "primitive" and "loud" manner.
The 57-year-old, who was at American President Obama's inauguration in 2009, claims she was constantly belittled and humiliated between 2007 and 2009.
Read more: Kate Middleton's ex-bodyguard sues Met police for racial discrimination
The harassment began in 2007 when she was refused leave to visit her two brothers' graves after they died in a car crash in Kenya and ended in her being medically retired with mental health difficulties, the court heard.
Ms Auma, of Green Lanes, Palmers Green, north London, is fighting for £400,000 compensation in a trial at Central London County Court. The Met denies liability.
Judge Simon Freeland QC heard Ms Auma, whose job involved liaising with crime victims on the Telephone Investigations Bureau, had been the victim of "21st Century bullying."
Describing how colleagues would break wind next to her, Ms Auma said: "This was happening on the telephone investigation desk.
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