A chippy owner ran up a £20,000 electricity bill to prove critics he had money to burn when his business shut down after three months.
Hugh Clarke sent messages to the father of one of his sacked workers insisting he was keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, despite the business being closed, because he could afford to, the Daily Record reports.
In a bizarre Whatsapp message to Norman Towson - whose daughter Jill was sacked - he wrote: "Did you not notice the lights on 24 hours a day for the last month? That's for keyboard warriors like you that say I've no money to pay for electricity."
