N.C. Man Finds Finger in Frozen Custard

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050503/ap_on_fe_st/custard_finger

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside — a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.

Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger found in a package from Kohl's Frozen Custard.

State officials went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine.

Wilmington television station WWAY reported that Clarence Stowers found the finger in custard he purchased Sunday night.

Stowers, who did not immediately return calls Monday from The Associated Press, told the station: "I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'"

Stowers said he spit the object out, but still couldn't identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water — and "just started screaming."

Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer

And why do all the finders run for lawyers?

a lawyer, too. This company showed blatant disregard for the safety of their customers when they failed to discard the food the employee who severed his finger was working around when he severed it.

Are you saying you wouldn't be bothered to find out you'd been sucking on a severed human finger you spooned out of your ice cream?

I mean, it wasn't a TOE for chrissakes...

mmmmmmmm....toes...

a corporate media fluff piece.

Deregulatin' the free market. Increasin' profitability. Makin' a fortune off other people's labor is HARD WERK.

Employees need to mind their own safety. It's a matter of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Can't have any freeloaders makin' workmans comp claims, it raises costs and reduces dividends to the stockholders.

this just goes way beyond the norms

if the restaurant knew that a worker had lost part of a finger, they had a duty to shut the place down until they found it

nasty

was working around when he lost his finger, if they couldn't find the finger! There is no common sense, anymore. No common sense.

;-)

yes, i know.. booooooo.

He he. With everything else I've seen, I'm surprised that hasn't been used. What's scary is the kind of person who thinks that would work after the first chick got busted.

The manufacturer acknowledged that there was an accident where the employee lost a finger.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Yeah, I guess that is pretty sick. I still won't eat Wendy's chili. It sucked anyway but was low in fat. Now, why didn't they catch that before it got to someone's spoon.

Somehow, it just does.

:scared:

The owner was irresponsible to not throw out the batch the employee was working on. I presume he was entirely focused on saving money. A hefty judgment would make business people in similar circumstances think twice. The owner's behavior was a case of giving his patrons the finger, figuratively and literally (ok, I couldn't resist).

I sure hope the health department dings them for that one (where it says finger count on the restaurant inspector's checklist).