Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas

Insulting your boss and making unwelcome advances toward coworkers aren't the only dangers of overindulging at workplace holiday festivities. You could also drop dead in the bathroom -- and nobody would bother to notice.

A BRITISH man collapsed and died in the bathroom of a restaurant where his office Christmas party was being held - but his body was not discovered until the following morning, the Yorkshire Post reported yesterday.

The 25-year-old man, who was not yet named, became sick Friday at Le Bistrot Pierre in Sheffield, northern England, and went to use the restroom, where he died.

His colleagues left the restaurant, not realizing the man was still in the building. His body was not discovered until restaurant manager Nick Dunkley went into the bathroom Saturday.

"His friends had gone home without him, and the poor chap was then found in our toilet by the manager, Nick. He was 25 years old, with a wife, and had apparently become ill and taken himself to the toilet," said one of the restaurant's owners, Robert Beacham. "We closed the restaurant on Saturday and Sunday out of respect."

[Herald Sun]