Vernon, B.C. business groups urge respect after shop’s window smashed by ‘belligerent’ customer
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The Downtown Vernon Association said the city is "not immune to the pressures of the global pandemic," but occurrences like what happened at the book store are not very frequent.
While the physical damage at Vernon, B.C., bookstore Expressions of Time was quickly fixed, the staff are still feeling the emotional fallout from a confrontation with belligerent customers on Friday.
Business owner Charlene Deuling said the customers weren’t following store policies and got upset.
Deuling said one of the two problem customers wasn’t fully following the store’s masking policy, but the pair were ultimately asked to leave because of their “belligerent” attitudes, not masking issues.
“We usually kill people with kindness and be helpful and stuff like that. They just started getting very annoyed that we were trying to help them. She started swearing, insulting my staff,” Deuling.
Deuling said the man tried to knock down a showcase after he was asked to leave and broke a window in the front door on his way out.
“He was trying to come back in and he turned around and just elbow-smashed the door and broke it,” Deuling said.
She said a mother and daughter who are both employed at the store were closing the door and the glass shattered on them.
“My mother-daughter who worked for me were at the door closing it and the glass shattered all over them,” she said.
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