at Wendy's is under investigation. Cops searched her house today. Just heard it on the news.

I knew It!! That story never did smell right. :crazy:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-wendys-finger,0,7140524.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

Home of Woman in Finger Claim Searched

By Associated Press

April 7, 2005, 9:44 PM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Investigators searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose last month.

"We are looking into every aspect in this case," San Jose police spokeswoman Gina Tepoorten said. "We are talking to people she knows as well as the finder of the finger. ... We want to determine who this finger belongs to and how it ended up in a bowl of chili."

Ayala, 39, was dining at the restaurant on March 22 when she claimed she scooped up the inch-and-a-half long fingertip in a mouthful of chili. She later filed a claim with the franchise owner, Fresno, Calif.-based JEM Management, Corp., saying she was disgusted by the experience.

Wendy's maintains that the finger did not enter the food chain in its ingredients. All the employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers, and no suppliers of Wendy's ingredients have reported any hand or finger injuries, the company said.

That's hilarious. You can just imagine a line up at Wendy's..."Hands out!"

Not to mention the lack of blood evidence. It would be kind of hard to hide a severed finger.

houses don't report their injusries, that's why. It attracts too much attention and slows things down. Cattle are slaughtered at the rate of up to 450 animals per hour 24/7 in the modern slaughter factory. It is not at all unusual in this environment for a fatigued worker to lose a bit of a digit.

The slaughter line stops for almost nothing however so it suprises me VERY little that this bit of finger showed up in somebody's chili. The suprising thing is that she noticed it at all. Most people don't examine their food very closely and would have most likely swallowed it whole without noticing it at all. You think a bit of somebody's finger is the worst thing you could find in your chili? The stuff that's in it already, in every bowl full is worse than that. After all, somebody's finger is just another bit of meat.

Google these words together. ConAgra chili feces

Where do you think Wendy's chili comes from? While you were sleeping, Tyson took over an obscene majority of the slaughter and processing of cows, pigs and chickens in this country. They are now the largest processor on the planet. I live within 45 miles of no less than 6 of these nasty places so I'm pretty familiar with them. Nothing stops the line, certainly not a trivial thing like a little bit of finger.

USDA’s “Don’t Look, Don’t Know” Policy for Beef Inspection
http://www.whistleblower.org/uploads/Shielding%20the%20Giant%20Final%20PDF.pdf

hell what's losing a finger for 10 million dollars?

if it's a scam, she had to get it somewhere - eek!

I heard something that they were going to test the finger to see if the spices had set in so they could find out if it happened at the factory.

Otherwise, she must have dug a grave or something, but it sure seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through something that can be proven. It did look like a nasty fingernail!

Please share :)

the one piece just looked like a nasty thick icky nail!

I'll see if I can find a link.

ick!

"The county medical examiner said the human finger was cooked but not decomposed."

i have news for mr. medical examiner: when you cook something, you decompose it.

lets face it, wendy's has probably hired burston-marsteller or some other PR agency, and they are frantically trying to cover the story up, or discredit the woman.

rule of thumb: don't consume anything corporate, and you won't get the finger. hah.

Yuck!

:puke:

Ew.

and yep, ew is right. Ick and yuck, even!

:rofl:


On a more serious note, where the heck did she get the finger?

I can get you a toe. With nail polish.

Fucking amateurs.

:D Yer outta yer league!

It's in Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark - a classic Halloween story book. If you have kids, they probably have this book. It's a funny story.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064401707/102-3015161-6652135?v=glance

I think it was a chili mac, or a burger or something. It was a while back.

who found the Virgin Mary in her grilled cheese sandwich?

the pop star Madonna.

He works at the local funeral parlor.

KIDDING

fluid and formaldehyde.

LOL

I just thought this was a fishy story as soon as I heard it. I mean, come on, who really believed this?

Don't answer that. I wouldn't be admitting it if I were you. :rofl:

Florida Applebees?

that is gross. The finger is funny but a lizard head is disgusting.

OOO I just remembered I ate at Applebee's tonight. Yuck.

How stupid is that? If you're going to try to rip off a fast food company, go with a rat part or something kind of in the realm of possibility. A HUMAN finger -- well, there's a dead body somewhere missing a finger, and of COURSE the cops wanna know about it.

soup. They tested the mouse and apparently it wasn't even cooked and died from strangulation, not being boiled.

It's not out of the realm of possibility at all. That chili didn't come from Wendy's people. Think about it. Look a little further back. The chili comes from factory slaughter houses. Cattle are killed and sent down the line at the rate of up to 450 animals per hour 24/7 in the modern slaughter factory. It is not at all unusual in this environment for a fatigued worker to lose a bit of a digit.

The slaughter line stops for almost nothing however so it suprises me VERY little that this bit of finger showed up in somebody's chili. The suprising thing is that she noticed it at all. Most people don't examine their food very closely and would have most likely swallowed it whole without noticing it at all.

You think a bit of somebody's finger is the worst thing you could find in your chili? The stuff that's in it already, in every bowl full is worse than that. After all, somebody's finger is just another bit of meat.

Google these words together. ConAgra chili feces

I live within 45 miles of no less than 6 of these nasty places so I'm pretty familiar with them. Nothing stops the line, certainly not a trivial thing like a little bit of finger.


If Americans knew about the unclean state of affairs in the meat industry, they'd be a whole lot more picky about where their food came from.


USDA’s “Don’t Look, Don’t Know” Policy for Beef Inspection (whistleblower.org)
http://www.whistleblower.org/uploads/Shielding%20the%20Giant%20Final%20PDF.pdf

www.meetyourmeat.com

can guess. I hope they find a friend of hers who is missing part of a finger.. and I really hope that person is walking around alive.

"Omigod, I have the worst luck - now there's a nose in my Frosty!"

at Pizza Hut. Easier to camoflauge.

but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

:)

the story says sales are way down.

Hey maybe this woman is a major stockholder in McDonald's or Burger King.

Fuck em.

"Supersize Me" would have made me stop. :eyes:

great movie. Made me glad I hate McDonald's.

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4358412/detail.html



http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/040705_nw_chili_finger.html
"Warrant Suggests Finger Found In Chili Could Belong To Dead Aunt"

Finding half of one.

I remember hearing that when it first happened? The finger was well cooked so she didn't have to worry about any type of disease.

She's one very sick person if she did do that..

Doesn't even have any chili on it. Hey, maybe this is a different finger!!

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chili.asp

snip:

Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding the well-cooked finger may have come from a food-processing plant that supplies the company.

snip:

The county medical examiner said the human finger was cooked but not decomposed.




:puke:

I have a lawyer friend who used to handle lots of "foreign object in food" cases. She said that for every one person who actually found something, five people came in who had planted stuff in food. She said you wouldn't believe some of the stuff people claimed they found. One of the worst was a used condom with, er...DNA sample still inside. The guy claimed he found it in a sealed can of baked beans, but it was....wait for it.....his own DNA.

:puke:

What a moran!

A woman in here VA and her son "found" a dead mouse in their soup at the local Cracker Barrel. She immediately filed a $10 million lawsuit. They did an autopsy on the mouse and found that it had been killed in a trap, had no soup in its lungs or stomach, and had not been cooked. Fricking health department was better than CSI!

Cracker Barrel countersued the woman, who it turns out had also pulled similar stunts at other restaurants (and gotten hush money before in settlements) and was under investigation for writing something like $50K in bad checks. She had told the Cracker Barrel manager to give her all the money in the restaurant and she wouldn't go to the media or health department. He called her bluff ;-)

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not even bloody accidents. I know for a fact that somewhere in this country, there once was a can of corn with the end of a young corn chopper's finger in it!