NOTTINGHAM, England — A disgruntled British postal worker, who colleagues described as being a “wanker sometimes,” went on a punching spree on Thursday at his Royal Mail post office, brutally slugging 23 co-workers, knocking out three.
The pugilist was identified as Roger Addison, 41, of Nottingham and was subdued by an off-duty police officer who was able to clench his fists in time to inflict a right cross — but not before Addison was able to leave a wake of annoyed and severely tender victims.
Royal Mail letter carriers recount their ordeal of being slapped around in England's most recent post office rampage.
Police say that Addison was upset after being notified of a significant “restructuring” of his Royal Mail group pension, became distraught and “apparently just went off his trolley”.
Nottingham’s Detective Constable Michael Giggs, who led the investigation, revealed that Addison started his horrifying rampage by first punching his wife twice in the chest during breakfast. He then drove to work and opened a fury of fists on co-workers and patrons, leaving dozens dazed and sore.
The small city located in central England is still recovering from the shock of the mass hitting, leading one tearful resident to ask: “How can anyone be allowed to just walk into a public place wielding his hands like that?”
Fellow postal worker Michael McIlvane, who was working in the mail sorting room at the time of the vicious punching attack, said he heard muffled thuds and screams of ”ow, stop doing that.”
“At first, I thought it was a joke,” McIlvane said. “But when my mate Reginald came stumbling through the door with a bloody nose, I knew something serious was happening. It was horrible.”
According to McIlvane, he then ran into the lobby only to stand face to face with the crazed attacker.
“That tosser gave me a haymaker before I could even say a word. I don’t remember much after that,” he said.
While many managed to escape the building, three were left unconscious after taking left uppercuts at close range. Seven other postal service employees and 13 customers were treated on the scene for abrasions, cuts, and a few black eyes.
Post offices across the country have been the scene of several fisticuffs in recent years due to the stress over likely privatization of the British mail service and the resulting adjustment to worker’s pensions.
In October, a mail sorter entered his Liverpool mail office and smacked around four people including his supervisor who had sent him home for being on drunk on the job earlier that day.
In 2009, a temporarily furloughed letter carrier in nearby Derby backhanded 14 people in the small city’s post office before turning his fists on himself with a single punch to the face, ending the 15-minute raised-fist standoff with police.
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