Sweet gift backfires

THE office going away party is normally a harmless ritual, but one employee leaving a US firm got an unwelcome surprise from a colleague.

The unidentified 47-yearold woman allegedly baked brownies laced with laxatives meant for a departing coworker with whom she had had a previous spat, The Ann Arbor News reported.

Another employee at the automotive technologies firm in Michigan, tipped off the company and the brownies were intercepted before anyone consumed them.