ASIAN Man Caught Haggling for Pearl Ice Tea

At around 12:40pm today, Asian migrant Frank Yum was seen bargaining with the EasyWay girl at Sunnybank Plaza's EasyWay Tea Asian beverage bar. Around 4 minutes into the haggling process, onlookers and waiting customers became impatient and called centre security. According to a news release, security did not arrive. Another source has confirmed security was not even called and that the instigator was simply checking his prepaid credit balance.

Mr Yum was told to cease and desist his "unethical" business deal with the young Asian girls working at the bar. LIER's Sunnybank correspondent Robert Cho arrived at the scene too late to be an eyewitness, but was able to gather some information to piece together this story. A middle-aged Caucasian male reportedly went up to Mr Yum to tell him to "get back on a boat back to his country". A group of three Asian youths told LIER Magazine that they were also planning to bargain for their drinks and had done it "many times before".

EasyWay employee Michael Lee was sacked later this afternoon but has repeatedly claimed that he was in the back room with employee Lucy Wang during the entire incident. Simone Cheung was the girl who served Mr Yum, who he noted was the daughter of a family friend. Several patrons had heard from eyewitnesses that Mr Yum was expressing interest in buying the store, and others claimed he looked vaguely similar to a convicted Asian pedophile. LIER correspondent Robert Cho was unable to make contact with Mr Yum for an interview, but was told by his wife, Mrs Yum, that Mr Yum was taken in by police at around 6:25pm this evening.

Despite information in a new press release stating that EasyWay employee Lucy Wang had planned to poison Mr Yum's drink for personal reasons and that Michael Lee had only attempted to detain her in the room, a spokesperson for EasyWay Tea Sunnybank vehemently pushed that the true story was that Michael Lee has been spitting in the drink mixes for at least the past month. In-store video footage from 3 June, 2007 revealed that none of the above was true. Centre Management announced soon after that they were unaware a security camera existed in the back room of EasyWay Tea Sunnybank.

Latest reports from Sunnybank correspondent Robert Cho inform us that Mr Yum received a Pearl Ice Tea for his inconvenience and had the pleasure of drinking it in custody.