A woman binned a takeaway and called the police after she mistakenly thought a delivery driver should have been self isolating after a holiday.
The 41-year-old mum-of-one threw the meal in the bin after she heard the driver had returned from a break in Greece.
The woman, who doesn't want to be named, paid £23 for chicken fried rice, chips and fillet Cantonese beef from Norton China, Stoke On Trent Live is reporting.
Panicked that the driver should have been self-isolating, she says she then threw it in the bin without touching it and rang Staffordshire Police.
The force has since confirmed the driver had been to Greece, but to an area that was not one from which people had to isolate on their return.
The woman said her concern at the time, on October 25, was for her son and elderly grandmother.
She told Stoke On Trent Live: "My concern isn’t really for myself, I'm not at risk. But I am responsible for my grandma, who's 91, and is at high risk.
And I have got a child too. I may as well have got £23 and put it in the bin because that’s what I did last night.
“I was so disappointed and very angry about it."
A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police said: "We carried out enquiries and it's been deemed he went to a part of Greece where he didn't have to self-isolate on his return."
Norton China declined to comment when approached by Stoke On Trent Live.
