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A man accidentally ordered a giant Grinch
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14 Dec 2020, 16:21
It's the risk of online shopping, something looks great and it arrives only to look nothing like the picture.
There have been plenty of online mishaps, where supposedly bargain buys have turned up only to be doll-sized as the purchaser didn't read the description.
How about getting more than you bargained for though? One man did a festive good deed and ordered some Christmas decorations to brighten up his house and make his daughter smile.
Ray Liddell from Hartlepool, decided to order a large inflatable Grinch decoration for seven-year-old Jasmine, but enormous would have been a more accurate description.
Poor Ray was shocked when it arrived and he realised the sheer size of the Grinch. It stands at a whopping 35 foot tall, and towers over their house.
It set him back £500, so some would argue the statuesque green and red inflatable is value for money. He went ahead and put it up anyway, and unsurprisingly it's been drawing attention.
He told The Mirror: "It's a total picture of positivity. People are coming from all over to have their photos taken. There was a queue on Sunday morning. I made sure everyone was socially distanced. I reckon we must have had over 5,000 people visit."
Ray added: "It's been a real marvel so far. I only ordered it for my daughter as she loves Grinch. I was delighted with her reaction, let alone that of strangers."
Fortunately, despite the error, she loved it: "Jasmine was just screaming at it like crazy when it was all blown up."
It has been so popular that the family have decided to do some good and raise funds from it, asking visitors to donate cash. So far they've raised more than £20,000 for a local hospice.
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