Lapland was bad for our elf

 

Ordeal ... elves Emma Craven and Daryl Yarwood

 

 

 

 

By JAMIE PYATT

and CHARLOTTE SPRATT

Published: Today

 

 

 

 

TWO shattered elves last night lifted the lid on life inside a “rip-off” Christmas grotto where raging parents beat up workers.

 

Emma Craven and Daryl Yarwood left their jobs as Santa’s little helpers at a “Lapland” theme park in Dorset amid fears the stress would make them ill.

And Emma said: “Angry people just kept shouting, ‘Is this it’? It was really doing my health in.”

Shock ... Sun yesterday

 

 

 

 

The Sun told yesterday how frustrated customers attacked three elves and a Father Christmas after forking out £30 a ticket to queue in a muddy field for Lapland New Forest.

Dozens of workers at the attraction, which had a closed ice rink and a nativity scene nailed to a billboard, were pulled out for their safety by an employment agency.

Trading standards had over 2,000 complaints.

Elf Emma quit the park after she was slapped in the face by an incensed mother.

The 30-year-old, from Bournemouth, said it happened as she looked after a queue of punters at the grotty grotto.

Emma said: “From the first morning I worked there it was just a barrage of abuse from the moment you got in until the moment you left.

“People kept asking me, ‘Is this it’? and telling me what a rip-off it was and how we should be ashamed of ourselves.

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“It was hard because I really felt for them. They were not getting what they expected and the kiddies were so upset. It kept me up thinking about it and it was really doing my health in.

“In the end this woman slapped me. I thought, ‘That’s it’ and left.

“It’s not like it was big money. They offered us £5.90 an hour.”

Pal Daryl left his grotto job after just four days — sickened at ordering parents to fork out £10 extra to have their kids photographed with Father Christmas.

Daryl, 23, said: “From the first day we were all getting stressed out.

“There were parents screaming at me and children crying. It was really badly organised.

“I nearly got lynched. If I didn’t have the mental strength it could have made me ill. I’d definitely have quit if the agency hadn’t pulled us out.”

Santa and the elves should learn some Kung Fu:D

Santa and the elves should learn some Kung Fu:D

 

They wanted to, but "elf" and safety wouldn't allow it......................:rolleyes:

this was awful!

this was awful!

 

Yes - must have been like a living elf.............................. :rolleyes: