The fed-up vocal locals of last year

FROM SAUCY KETCHUP TO PEDALOS POND PALAVA

HERE at the Mail we get a lot of angry emails and phone calls and sometimes they’re from people hoping that we might be able to help them out of a predicament.

We’ve helped consumers that have been sold short, tenants in terrible conditions, citizens who have been scammed and many more to find the answers or resolutions that they need.

We’ve helped people highlight many problems - from the man who had possibly the only car that We Buy Any Car would not buy to the gran living in a pigeon poo nightmare.

Below is a list of the most ticked-off Hull residents of the year so far:

1 Man outraged by ‘sexual’ Pizza Hut ketchup label

Back in October, Adrian Shann came to us in disgust after a visit to Pizza Hut where he found condiments labelled with “sexual” words.

Adrian, 31, went to a Pizza Hut for the first time on a Wednesday evening and was taken aback by a ketchup bottle’s labelling.

“It’s not innocent in my eyes,” said Adrian of the ‘Shake, Squeeze and Squirt’ ketchup label branding he discovered in Pizza Hut’s store in Clive Sullivan Way.

“The barbecue sauce one said ‘Squeeze,’ but the ketchup one said that, it put me off using it.

“It literally sounds like an app for swingers. I do not understand how someone could put that sentence together, it’s awful.”

2 Djing Hull mum accused of fake eyelash theft

Djing mum-of-two Vicki-anna Peterson said it was like “a punch in the stomach” when she returned home after purchasing some fake eyelashes at a beauty shop to see the owner had posted CCTV images of her on Facebook, accusing her of “stealing” the products.

Local hairdresser Vicki-anna feared her “respectful reputation was in tatters” after she went to Boss Beauty on Holderness Road, in east Hull, to “get pretty” but instead had her reputation and pride “hurt” when the beauty salon owner posted photographs of her to Facebook, accusing her of stealing goods from her shop.

3 Hull couple’s romantic night is ruined after lightning strike fries TV

In July, a Hull mum said she and her family had been left shaken after their home was struck by lightning which “came out of nowhere”.

Michaela Baldwin, 31, who was 21 weeks pregnant, was a self-confessed thunder lover before her Sky box “blew up” leaving her home damaged.

The mum, who also has a ten-yearold son, planned a romantic evening with partner Lee Clark at their Dorset Street home before it was hit by the bolt.

4 Hull wildlife enthusiast pleads ‘don’t put pedalos in our pond’

One from November when a local wildlife enthusiast urged the council “don’t put pedalos back” in a popular Hull park pond.

Tony Eldred-parkinson lives next to Pickering Park and believes that a council environment report shows bringing back boats would harm wildlife.

Boats were last in the water in Pickering Park in 1976 and the water boasts sightings of kingfishers and goosanders.

5 Hull gran in ‘living nightmare’ as pigeons cover her home in poo

In April a Hull grandma spoke of her distress after pigeons had blighted her garden with poo for more than four years.

Louise Johnson, 48, of west Hull said the situation was a “nightmare come true” and was “absolutely disgusted” that the council had not fixed the problem.

She claimed that after the council installed solar panels on her roof, it had become a large nesting site for pigeons who foul the roof and the garden below.

6 Overflowing bin ‘disgraceful’ as reeking dog mess mountain enrages Hull hairdresser

Back in March a Hull business owner was pleading with Hull City Council to remove a bin “spewing dog poo all over the place” from the front of her shop.

Kerrie Preston who owns Inglemire Barbers in west Hull said it was like “banging her head against a brick wall” when it came to asking the council to remove a “health hazard bin” from the front of her hairdressers.

The story had a happy ending as the council acted on the report, Hull City Council spokesperson said: “The bin has now been removed and we apologise for the delay in responding in this instance.”

7 Grandma disgusted by shop’s ‘pornographic sweets’

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October we heard from an East Yorkshire grandma who was outraged at “sexually explicit” sweets on sale at a seaside candy shop.

Susan Radford visited Bridlington at the start of the half term with her grandchildren.

She took them into a candy store just by the Promenade Amusement Park and was shocked by what she found.

On sale, “within children’s reach”, were multicoloured “foot-long” rock sweets shaped like male genitalia.

The sweets were variously titled ‘Rock C***’ and ‘Big Boy.’

Susan, from Market Weighton, said: “Why should children be getting exposed to that?”