A police officer was fired after he scanned a 7p (NZ 10 cent) bag of carrots to purchase a £9.95 (NZ$19) box of doughnuts. Police officer Simon Read - who was in uniform at the time - purchased 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, carrots, a drink and a sandwich from a supermarket. Instead of scanning the doughnut barcode, the on-duty officer scanned the carrot barcode. It showed Read choosing his doughnuts, picking up two carrots and placing them in a small white Krispy Kreme bag. "I had placed the carrots in the Krispy Kreme bag to disguise the fact that the contents of the bag were part of a joke.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 27, 2020 18:47 UTC