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Forget Woolies ThongGate! Aussie dad: ‘I was kicked out of BUNNINGS - for wearing THIS’

Hmmmmm .... whose side are you on with this? - by Amy Sinclair
  • 29 Mar 2019

Just a week after a shopper claimed they were banned from a supermarket for wearing thongs, an Aussie dad has revealed that he too was kicked out of Bunnings over his choice of footwear. 

Speaking on Facebook, the dad says he was asked to leave his local Bunnings store for walking in with bare feet. 

Forget Woolies ThongGate! Aussie dad: ‘I was kicked out of BUNNINGS - for wearing THIS’

‘I’d just been surfing and had to run in and get some paint,’ writes the dad. ‘I wasn’t wearing shoes because I’d just come from the beach and barely got 10 metres into the store when I got stopped by two workers and asked to go and put shoes on. 

‘I said “This is Australia, mate! We walk around with no shoes!” But they weren’t having any of it and told me it was against OH&S regulations. 

‘I mean I see where they were coming from because there’s all sorts of metal and stuff on the ground of a hardware store - but I was just getting paint from the front of the store. It wasn’t like I was going to do laps around the shop.’

The dad went on to say that he left the store and went home but ‘couldn’t be bothered going back once I had me thongs on’. But while he may have been looking for sympathy from his Facebook buddies, there wasn’t much on the table.

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The dad claims he was denied entry into Bunnings because he was wearing bare feet - but most people are siding with Bunnings on this one!

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Whaddya expect, mate? A bloke sued them for stepping on some onion. What would happen if you stepped on a nail? They’d be up **** creek,’ said one commenter. 

Added another: ‘Put some shoes on ya bogan!’

Said a third: ‘It’s fair enough, mate. Going into Bunnings without shoes on....you're just asking for trouble.’

But some weren’t as scathing. Said a Facebook user: ‘First one bloke gets banned from shopping in his thongs, you’re not allowed into a paint store with no shoes on. We’re turning into a nanny state!

Another added: ‘It’s not like anything can happen in the paint section. “Oh no, I got a splash of Dulux Primrose Pink on my toe! Let me sue Bunnings!”’

Either way, it seems the dad learnt his lesson and won’t be returning to Bunnings without his shoes from now on - and is even having a laugh about it now. ‘Maybe I’ll even wear the missus heels!’ he says. Ha!

Amy Sinclair
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