Supermarket giant Lidl is investigating a video which appears to show a man in a Lidl uniform repeatedly striking a cyclist with a leg of pork.
The clip, which was shot in Derby, shows a man dressed in the budget supermarket uniform chasing a cyclist down the busy Nottingham road and whacking him on the back with the packaged meat.
The bizarre incident, which happened over the weekend, was uploaded to Facebook by Kiefer Bateman on Sunday morning and has been watched over 19,000 times.
The landscape engineer, 23, said he was in the ‘right place at the right time’ to capture the moment.
The footage shows a cyclist, wearing a dark hoodie, cap and tracksuit bottoms, cowering and ducking as he is repeatedly struck with the heavy packaged meat by the uniformed man.
It is unclear what sparked the incident but Mr Bateman, from Chaddesden, said that he believed the police had been called in connection with the incident.
The man, who appears to be wearing a Lidl uniform, chases the cyclist down the street and repeatedly strikes him with a heavy looking leg of pork
A spokesman for Lidl said: ‘We were very sorry to hear of this matter as we do not condone any behaviour that could be considered inappropriate or offensive.
‘We have thorough procedures in place for dealing with shoplifting at our stores and were, therefore, disappointed that these procedures had not been followed on this occasion.
The spokesperson also said that the man was believed to be a store employee.
‘Upon being notified of this incident, we immediately launched a full internal investigation.’
The cyclist wore a dark hoodie, a cap and a pair of tracksuit bottoms and ducks and cowers as he makes his way down the pavement