Moment DPD driver HURLS chronically ill boy's £100 Christmas present across front garden when no one answered
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This is the moment a delivery driver hurls a chronically ill boy's Christmas present across a family’s front garden after they failed to answer the door in time. The DPD employee spent just 15 seconds outside the home of Nick and Vicky Hood – where the courier rang their doorbell twice and hammered on the door repeatedly.
![[The DPD driver rang the doorbell twice and repeatedly hammered the door in the span of 15-seconds]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/22/93252449-14203425-image-a-2_1734474197208.jpg)
Despite only being at the door for mere seconds, the delivery driver threw the box - containing a £100 model plane for chronically ill Ronnie, 11, across the lawn. The delivery driver had disappeared by the time one of the couple’s daughters got downstairs.
![[After receiving no answer, he went on to hurl chronically-ill Ronnie Hood's Christmas gift (Pictured)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/22/93252445-14203425-image-a-3_1734474204167.jpg)
An email later said the item, which was their son's Christmas gift, had been left at a house 100 yards away, even though neighbours either side of their house were in. Mr Hood, 58, who runs a same-day courier firm himself, called A12 Logistics, said: ‘It was pretty galling for me, seeing that.
![[The gift was a £100 die-cast model of a Airbus Beluga, a wide-bodied aircraft used to transport aircraft parts and outsized cargoes]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/22/93252451-14203425-image-a-1_1734474193071.jpg)
‘If one of my men had done that it would have been on-the-spot they would have gone. Ronnie Hood, 11, who has a chronic medical contidion, had his £100 Christmas gift thrown by a DPD delivery driver. The DPD driver rang the doorbell twice and repeatedly hammered the door in the span of 15-seconds.
‘I’ve absolutely no idea why it happened. It’s not like the doorbell was hidden. It makes zero sense, even if you’re having a bad day. He didn’t even give us a chance to get downstairs.’. Mrs Hood, 53, added: ‘I was in shock when I saw the parcel thrown across the lawn but also upset in case Ronnie’s present had broken.
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