A salon owner has hit back after a woman claimed their sign fell on her in the wind.
The weather’s been on an absolute mad one recently, with Storm Eowyn giving the UK and Ireland another battering. Several areas were placed under a red warning by the Met Office as strong winds caused a danger to life.
And as plenty of homes and businesses have faced destruction and damage, Flawless by Danielle in Glasgow had its sign knocked off on 24 January.
Owner Danielle Ferguson said she rushed to try and fix it but a woman had already been photographed underneath it - only for the 'truth' soon to be revealed.
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She explained: “The wind was blowing walls down and all that. It blew the sign down. That sign was very thick. The sign was that good it didn't come off the frame. It was the frame that blew down due to the wood being old.”
Having got a message from a client, the 30-year-old braved the weather to retrieve the sign as others came to help her.
"A lady said there was a woman that had obviously seen that the sign was still down and she'd tried to put her leg under it and get a photo as if she'd been hurt. I was annoyed. I can't believe somebody would do that,” Ferguson slammed.
She says she ended up getting messages from the ‘horrible’ stranger, including snaps of her ‘injured’ and claiming the sign ‘fell on her leg’.
The salon owner reckons the woman was faking it and took the images in order to make a claim against her.
“I'm more shocked than anything at the fact somebody would do that. It's honestly horrible,” she added.
“Obviously I have to replace the full sign and the frame and then someone's potentially trying to put a claim in against me. I'm just like 'no'.”
Ferguson shared the ordeal on social media to warn people against it and while she was angry, is ‘just laughing’ at the comments.
“The thing is you could sit and say maybe it was just a bit of banter. But it wasn't because she messaged me directly,” she explained.
“She messaged me saying ‘look what happened. The sign fell on top of my leg’. I said to her she was a ‘liar’ because a lady had told me that somebody had done that and she'd seen them do it.”
She says the woman was insistent ‘it fell’ and when she tried to lift it from the pavement it ‘went on her leg and she fell’.
“She messaged me a photo of her leg under it. That's how obviously it makes it funny because there's no way that she's done that. When she sent them to me I said ‘you've done that on purpose’,” Ferguson continued.
The incident was not reported to police with the owner ‘so grateful’ someone told her what they’d seen.
Having to invest in a new sign, she wants it to be clear people ‘can't get away’ with this behaviour.
“You can't get away with doing stuff like that. That's absolutely horrible,” Ferguson said.
“She's still a person at the end of the day. I know that what she's done is wrong.”
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Jess Battison