Shopkeeper on a tiny Scottish island hatches a charitable solution to his chocolate Easter egg blunder

London — It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland's remote Orkney Islands was just trying to get ahead of the looming Easter holiday rush by ordering chocolate eggs six months in advance. But when the order arrived, he faced a hare-raising dilemma.

"I thought just 80 individual eggs were coming, but in reality I ordered 80 cases, and that was 720 eggs," ap Dafydd, owner of the Sinclair General Stores, told CBS News. "I certainly felt a little hot under the collar — a little bit embarrassed, maybe a little bit ashamed as well."

He scrambled to try to correct his error, but the company he'd ordered the eggs from had a no-returns policy. So, Dan was stuck with his 720 eggs — and one on his face, as there are only about 500 people who live on his island.