Kamogelo Olaitan
A man hasn’t been able to stop farting since he ate a ham roll – and that was back in December 2017!
Tyrone Prades, 46, from the United Kingdom is now suing the stall where he bought the roll for £200,000 – that’s just over R4 million.
The situation has reportedly got so bad that the man cannot stop himself from regularly passing loud, smelly and uncontrollable farts even in public.
The Daily Mail reports that hours after eating the roll at a market in Birmingham, England, Prades suffered stomach cramps, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
It’s suspected that the man is suffering from salmonella, an infection caused mostly by food poisoning.
It’s alleged that other customers who ate the ham fell sick as well.
His lawyers told the court that he was bedridden for five weeks after the incident.
His lawyer, Robert Parkin, told the court that even after the sickness subsided months later, awkward noises were still coming from his gut.
“The claimant continues to suffer from excessive flatulence, which causes him a great deal of embarrassment. The symptoms are, primarily, fatigue and altered bowel function associated with ‘churning’ within his abdomen and flatulence,” the lawyer told the court.
“The extent of the symptoms has been life-changing.”
The lawyer representing the stall that served the ham roll admitted that council environmental health officers found E. coli bacteria on a knife but no salmonella. The lawyer is arguing that Prades had not claimed to have suffered from an E. coli infection, and that the allegation of salmonella must be proven.
