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Coca-Cola apologizes for ‘retard’ bottle cap

Coca-Cola has apologized to a family who found the message “You Retard” printed inside a bottle cap.

Blake Loates, from Alberta, Canada, found the offensive message after buying a bottle of Vitamin Water, which is owned by the drinks firm.

“We immediately thought, you have got to be kidding me?” she said.

“We thought it might have been a disgruntled employee or someone in a (bottling) plant playing a joke.”

She took a picture of the bottle top and her father Doug wrote a letter of complaint to the drinks firm, mentioning his younger daughter Fiona, who has cerebral palsy and autism.

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