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<\/p>\nA DAD has been left feeling sick after making a disgusting discovery inside an Amazon parcel.<\/p>\n
Paul Payne, 44, returned from a short holiday to find the parcel, which he thought contained only his new Boss trainers, sitting in his hallway with a horrifying surprise inside.<\/p>\n
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Paul, from Bromley, South-East London, had ordered the trainers for a work Christmas drinks, but they were delayed, meaning that he didn't receive them until he got back from a fishing trip to Ashford, Kent on January 13.<\/p>\n
Much to his disgust, when he opened the box he found it contained not only his trainers but also two dead mice, as well as their urine and droppings.<\/p>\n
His trip away meant the dead rodents had been sitting in his hallway for over 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Paul said: "I\u00a0took the box straight upstairs because I wanted to see what [the trainers] were like and try them on. I was excited.<\/p>\n
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"But the second I opened the Amazon box and pulled the first piece of packaging away I could see what I thought were droppings."<\/p>\n
He took pictures, which show the white crepe paper in the box littered with small black beads, which look like mouse droppings.<\/p>\n
The paper was slightly torn and the top of the shoe box was nibbled around an air hole, which is where Paul thinks the mice might have got in.<\/p>\n
The dad-of-two added: "I sort of knew straight away. I know what mouse droppings look like. I had this real sinking feeling that there were going to be more.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n "I opened the last piece to see the shoes and see in the corner there was a load of droppings, and then what I thought was a tail.<\/p>\n "I\u2019ve started to feel sick just thinking about it. I pulled one shoe out and saw one of the mice in the box at the bottom with loads of urine and droppings everywhere and bits of paper.<\/p>\n "I picked the other shoe up and as I did this other mouse fell out, dead."<\/p>\n Some of the mess even got on the bed sheets and the droppings went "everywhere".<\/p>\n Paul said he wasn't sure if the mice had been dead when the package arrived but that, when he poked them with a stick, they were "very soft".<\/p>\n He got on the phone to Amazon "straight away" and was offered a refund, but insisted it was simply not good enough.<\/p>\n He said: "Luckily they were not alive, I said to the lady that I appreciated her refund but this is not acceptable.<\/p>\n "What has happened, it\u2019s disgusting – what if it had happened to an older person or someone with young kids?<\/p>\n "What if I had opened that parcel earlier and the mice was alive and it had run out? The scenarios are just grim."<\/p>\n Amazon are understood to have offered Paul a further \u00a375 gift voucher on top of his refund.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the company said: "We have apologised to the customer and we are working directly with them to make things right."<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dk-comp-amanda-alesha-1.jpg\")
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