A Scots diner has been offered a year's supply of socks after an embarrassing encounter with a hand dryer in a toilet cubicle.

Imagine the scene: you have just enjoyed a meal at a bespoke burger joint and decide to pay a visit to the toilet when the automatic hand dryer goes off, causing the phrase 'splashing out' to take on a new and unwelcome meaning.

That was the fate which befell Gordie Wallace when he popped into the little boy's room at Aberdeen's Handmade Burger Company store in Union Square.

One minute, he was emptying his bladder, the next he had inadvertently activated the hand dryer and ended up with a severe case of splashback.