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MIND your Bs & Qs: Grant Sullivan decorates the tree bought at B&Q with daughter Deonne, aged four.
DIY they know it’s Christmas?
Miles Skinner29/11/2006
THE controversial South Park team has been causing trouble again - this time in Stockport.
As well as the long-running cartoon series, the creators of one of the most profane animated movies in history released a Christmas song entitled Christmas Time in Hell.
One father has spoken of his disgust after a Christmas shopping trip was turned into an awkward facts of life enquiry when his young daughter heard the song's typically explicit lyrics.
Grant Sullivan, shopping with his four-year-old daughter, was so furious to hear the adult-humour song in the Heaton Norris B&Q that he complained to the store's head office.
Mr Sullivan, of Shaw Heath, said: "We went to buy our new Christmas tree and the song was playing in the Christmas grotto - I could not believe my ears."
Deonne, aged four, was excitedly choosing the star for the top of the tree with her father, an airport luggage controller, when her curiosity got the better of her.
"My little girl heard the lyrics then asked me what sex is. I could not speak," he said.
Mr Sullivan, 42, added: "I was dumbstruck and couldn't get my girl out of there fast enough. I asked one of the girls at the checkout about the song and she just told me I probably heard it wrong. That wasn't good enough for me so when I got home I rang head office.
"All they could say was 'sorry'.
"It should be a wonderful time of year for kids and maybe it was a silly employee's idea of a joke - but not to me.
"A big store like B&Q should know better. You won't find me shopping there again."
The song comes from an episode of South Park called Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics which originally aired seven years ago.
It is performed by Satan and the Damned and includes references to serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer performing a sexual act.
Other songs on the CD include: Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo, Dead Dead Dead, and Swiss Colony Beef Log.
A B&Q spokesman said: "On behalf of B&Q I would like to apologise to Mr Sullivan for any embarrassment caused during his recent visit to our Stockport store with his young daughter.
"The playing of South Park's Christmas in Hell was an oversight on our part and we did not wish to cause offence or embarrassment to any of our customers.
"The song was removed as soon as the oversight was pointed out to us and please be assured that we will not be playing this song in this or any of our other stores going forward."
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30/11/2006 at 02:43
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