The flowers were sent to 18 pubs in the town (Picture: Carrie-Ann Skivington)

A creepy man sent flowers to 18 pubs in his area after a woman blocked him for asking her out too many times.

The bouquets, addressed to ‘the landlord’s daughter’, were delivered to every single pub in the town of Atherton in Greater Manchester.

Each one came with a card, which simply said: ‘I’m sorry.’

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The 17 unintended recipients were really confused, with one woman posting on Facebook asking if anyone else had received them.


‘Any other pubs received “postbox flowers”?’ Natasha Paige Freeborn asked. ‘The ones sent to The Punchbowl are noted “to the landlord’s daughter”, so I’ve opened them… as that’s me, and a note inside states “I’m sorry”. Weird…’



She soon learned that she wasn’t the only one, with another pub owner replying: ‘I was all excited that someone was delivering me flowers until I realised they weren’t for me. But whoever they’re from must be very desperate to apologise by sending one to every pub.’

Even the postman who had delivered them commented on Natasha’s post: ‘I’m the postman who delivered all of them today. Tell him don’t do it again.’

Eventually the intended recipient came forward, saying the flowers were sent by a man she’d blocked online a few days earlier.

Lyndsey Murray Sapiente, 34, said that all the man knew about her was that her family owned a pub in Atherton.

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Lyndsey, whose dad owns the Taphouse, told the Manchester Evening News: ‘I’d never even met him, I met him via Facebook.

‘He kept asking me out and I kept saying I was too busy with work and my business and that I wasn’t looking for anything like that.

‘But he kept asking and asking, and it got to the point where I had to block him. That’s what he was apologising for.’

She added that she had called the man in question to say thank you for the flowers, but he is still blocked – and it will be left that way.