Bunnings shopper pranks staff by asking for item that doesn’t exist

A Sydney shopper played a prank on his local Bunnings store that left employees racing around for an item that does not exist.

A Bunnings shopper has proved that staff at the hardware store go above and beyond for customers after asking them to locate an item he knows doesn’t exist.

Sydney TikTok user @dibzbaby is known for creating funny videos on the social media platform.

In a recent clip he decides to play a prank on Bunnings staff by entering a store to ask for a new bubble for his spirit level.

The bubbles are a necessary part of the tool to measure how level something is – but it is a pocket of air inside a vial of colourful liquid and not something you can remove or buy separately.

You can buy replacement glass capsules whole at certain hardware stores but these do not appear to be on sale at Bunnings.

However the Bunnings staff are caught off guard by the prankster’s request and do the utmost to try and resolve the shopper’s issue.

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A shopper caused confusion at Bunnings by asking staff for a new spirit level bubble. Picture: TikTok/@dibzbaby

The employees tried to help the man. Picture: TikTok/@dibzbaby

“Do you know where I can get a new bubble for a spirit level?” he asks the first employee he encounters in the store.

After hesitating for a moment, clearly to rack her brain, the employee sends him to the tool shop section.

“That’s where spirit levels are so I’m assuming you’d be able to find the replacement around there,” she says helpfully.

He then proceeds to ask a second staff member who told him Bunnings didn’t sell the “bubbles on their own”.

However she proceeds down the aisle to double check for him before confirming her suspicions.

Still trying to help the customer, she suggests trying a “bigger tool shop”, before apologising that the item wasn’t at Bunnings.

Not satisfied with the response, @dibzbaby pushes the employee to sell him a bubble from inside a full spirit level, to which she says it is only sold as a “full unit”.

But just to make sure, she adorably calls someone to double check, before sending the customer on his way.

But no one was able to locate the item. Picture: TikTok/@dibzbaby

The video of the silly prank has gone viral, being viewed over a million times. Picture: TikTok/@dibzbaby

The video has been viewed over a million times since it was shared on April 7.

It’s not the first time the prankster has tried to pull the wool over the eyes of Bunnings staff, recently asking the hardware store employees to help him locate a left-handed hammer.

However the workers were clued onto the man’s request, telling him “they’re all the same”.

Bunnings was founded in 1886 by two brothers who moved to Australia from the UK and has become an iconic part of Australian retail history.

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