Derry postal worker loses hair in practical joke
March 2011
A postal worker from Londonderry has suffered burns
and lost clumps of his hair in what is understood to have been a
practical joke gone wrong.
He discovered the hair loss when he took off a motorbike helmet he
had taken from the staff locker room at Royal Mail's delivery office
on Great James Street on Wednesday afternoon.
It is believed that an acidic substance had been put in the helmet.
Royal Mail have launched an investigation.
The postal worker had returned from his rounds at about 1600 GMT
when he put on the helmet.
He did not discover anything wrong until he went home and took it
off.
The matter has been reported to the police but it is understood that
they have dropped their investigation as it is now being dealt with
internally by Royal Mail.
A source said that workers at the delivery office are "very annoyed
and angry" about what happened
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