Disgruntled online shopper texts entire works of Shakespeare as revenge
The Bard is a genius and his works provide a fantastic means in this story of punishing an online conman. It tells us:
“If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” It was perhaps this quotation from The Merchant of Venice that Edd Joseph had in mind when he first realised he’d been ripped off online.
Two weeks ago, the 24-year-old graphic designer spent £80 buying a PS3 games console from online marketplace Gumtree but was disappointed when the console failed to arrive, even after repeated attempts to contact the seller.
His response? To text the unscrupulous vendor the entire works of Shakespeare beginning with Macbeth.
Joseph [who has free unlimited texts] has so far sent 22 of Shakespeare 37 works and thinks that by the time his revenge comedy ends he will have delivered a total of 29,305 messages as payback to the online conman.