No way. If this turns out to be a money grab. Wow.. I guess there isn’t anything people wouldn’t try to do for a buck though…..
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
That just made a nasty story twice as nasty.
Posted by Goo Boy (Member # 7752) on :
I'm not making a judgment on this woman's story, but no matter what, I respect how aggressively Wendy's is pushing for an investigation of what happened. If it happened in their supply chain, they need to know where. If this woman is faking a claim, then I appreciate that they're not simply cutting a settlement check.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I seem to recall a story suggesting the finger came from a dead aunt.
But it doesn't surprise me - my father used to work for Coca-Cola in quality control.
You'd be amazed at the kinds of things people toss in drink containers and try to make a quick buck.
If they'd seen the bottling process, they'd realize what kind of uphill battle they faced.
-Trevor
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
TMI TMI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Yes? Yes?
Oh...TMI....gotcha...
-Trevor
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
So are you saying that the bottling process is solid and hard to get things by or that things happen.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
It is amazingly difficult to sabotage Coca-Cola's production line and accidental flavorings ala mouse are equally unlikely.
Coca-Cola invests a great deal of time, energy and resources into a secured production line - any hint or challenge is thoroughly investigated.
I can't speak to the quality controls of other manufacturers, however.
-Trevor
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Besides, like a mouse would last long submerged in Coca-cola. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
If you raise a baby mouse in a beer bottle until it's too large to crawl out, though, it's your ticket to a lifetime of free beer. It's foolproof!
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Yeah, they’ll steamroll you, you hoser!!!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*snicker* Actually, it's not.
There are quite a few tests to determine the nature of the contaminant and how long the contaminant has been present.
I don't know if they do a rodent autopsy to look for cola in the lungs or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
-Trevor
Edit: Not that I think Noeman was serious, but I felt the need to be obnoxious.
[ April 08, 2005, 03:58 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
quote: On Thursday, Wendy's announced it would give a $50,000 reward to the first person providing verifiable information leading to the positive identification of the origin of the finger.
I dont know why, but that made me laugh. Out loud.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
In the spirit of this thread, it'll be far too funny if one of the woman's relations rats her out.
-Trevor
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
OK, since this thread is beyond nasty as it is, I am going to add the nastiest story ever.
My mother in law went into the fridge one day and took out a half-finished Coke. She took a sip.
EW! she cried.
Something was in her Coke. My husband was sitting right there, and wondered what the problem was. His mother started to say she was going to sue the Coke company. She poured the Coke into a glass to see what was in it.
My husband quickly jumped up and poured the Coke into the sink. His mother was furious. He was destroying the evidence!
He didn;t want to tell her, but he had to.
It was...
chew spit.
Yup. He had spit into the can and absent-mindedly put it back in the fridge.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Heh.
This is why you never, ever take a drink from a container you didn't personally open and keep in your immediate care, custody and control.
-Trevor
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Especially when you go to a college in Vermont, where everyone is too healthy to smoke, but unhealthy enough to chew.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Thank you for the nightmares, Elizabeth.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Even worse than the finger, The Pixiest?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Mmmm...tastes like chicken! Fingers...
-Trevor
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Parts is parts....
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Chew spit. Yuck. Bet she never drink from another open can in the fridge again! I laughed pretty loud in the office when I read that one…. Fun!
Posted by Chaz_King (Member # 3184) on :
Hrmmm soda stories!
Picture it... a nice beautiful day at the pool, you are about 14 years old. Its sunny a little hot, and it is break time so you can't swim. Good thing you bought that orange soda the last time you got out of the pool...
You take a nice big swig... but something isn't right. There's a lump of something in your mouth now and you're sure its not supposed to be there!
Bleh! You spit out the soda/lump, and what do you see on the pavement?
A big fuzzy yellow BUMBLE BEE.
Yeah it happend to me once... it sucked.. but at least it wasn't alive enough to sting my mouth Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Note to self. Never try to run a scam where EVERYTHING IS LOADED WITH DNA.
Gee, don't these folks ever watch CSI?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Assuming, of course, the finger belongs to a family member and not another family's...member. So to speak.
But even so, the woman had to be aware that she would have been investigated just to make sure it wasn't a hoax and, as noted earlier, Wendy's is really motivated to find out the particulars.
-Trevor
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
50 Gees to finger a de-fingerer? I would roll over on my brother for that much.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I hope they nail whoever is responsible.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Is that what they call an in-groan joke?
-Trevor
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Apparently the partial fingerprint didn't generate any matches.
DNA tests are still pending.
-Trevor
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Elizabeth: A finger is really really really really really gross.
However, coagulated, chilled saliva? Just kill me now. EWWWWWW!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
They need to get the Murder She Wrote detective on this. That should fill Angie's week.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I remembered when they found a rat's paw in a bottle of Coke. I think one of the city coucil men stated that "if this is just a paw, I wonder where the rest of the body is."
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
It could be anywhere - there's just no tailing.
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Very cheesy, T.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
The link won't load. Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote:Cops Raid Home of Fast-Food Finger Finder
Friday, April 08, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Investigators searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she scooped up a mouthful of finger along with her chili at a Wendy's restaurant last month.
City police, working with their counterparts in Las Vegas, served the warrant Wednesday as they investigated how a finger ended up in Anna Ayala's (search) bowl of chili.
"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."
Police would not say what was listed in the warrant.
Ayala, 39, was at the San Jose restaurant March 22 when she claimed she scooped up the 11⁄2-long fingertip. She later filed a claim with the franchise owner, Fresno, Calif.-based JEM Management Corp. (search)
"Just knowing that there was a human remain in my mouth ... it is disgusting. It is tearing me apart inside," Ayala told ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 28.
Wendy's spokesman Bob Bertini would not comment on the police investigation.
There was no answer at a home phone number listed for an Anna Ayala in Las Vegas. However, she told the San Jose Mercury News she would like to know what police were looking for in her home.
"I've been dragged through the mud," she said. "We've been treated like animals. I've been through too much."
On Thursday, Wendy's announced it would give a $50,000 reward to the first person providing verifiable information leading to the positive identification of the origin of the finger.
"It's very important to our company to find out the truth in this incident," said Tom Mueller, Wendy's president and chief operating officer.
Wendy's maintains 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.
The Santa Clara County (search) coroner's office, using a partial fingerprint to attempt to find a match in an electronic database, came up empty. DNA testing is still being conducted.
Is this better?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I can't imagine why this woman is mad she's getting a...chili...reception.
-Trevor
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Tmed: ::AAAAAGGG!!:: ::Runs screaming from the room!::
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Aw, Pix doesn't like puns. That's so cuticle.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I love puns. Running screaming from the room is VERY high praise.
::puts on her headset and listens to Dido::
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Nah, she's just bean cuticle.
Edit: By now, she's probably stewing.
-Trevor
[ April 08, 2005, 06:04 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Whatsever.
[ April 08, 2005, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
You gotta hand it to Wendy's...they normally have great severice, but when they give you the finger...
I realize I'm cutting in on Dag's puns, but I've been chopping at the bit all day.
-Trevor
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Although I have to give Dag credit, I'm not nearly as cleaver as he is.
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Nonesense! You're chucking them out faster than I am.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
You know, this is what is bound to happen in the digital age!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
However it came about, it sounds like she really has a bone to pick with Wendy's.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Wonder who'll knuckle under first....
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I think Wendy's will thumb their noses at her for a while.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Maybe. But then, I thik she'll give Da man a cure!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I think Elizabeth has nailed this one - she's just polishing it off...although she might just be buffing.
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I'll have to file that away for future reference.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, Trevor, let me just give you a little French tip: I am right about this.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
You definitely have a pointer.
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
I wish I had a nicer way to tell all you punners to get bent.
I suppose I'll just resist the temptation until I can think one up.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Salon as you remember I said it first.
-Trevor
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Well, Jebus, when Wendy's grills chicken, they cannot do it on one side. They do have to flip the bird.
[ April 08, 2005, 07:48 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Oh, bravo!
Well done Liz!
-Trevor
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Oh, you are giving me a two-thumb sup? Great! The woman only got one!
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Haha, I got one to share as well.
My dad was out in the one car garage working on his Harley. Gosh this was.....12....yeah I think 12 years ago. My youngest sister was only a few years old. Well, she was sitting on the floor not too far from him. She, the dazzlement of brilliance that she was/is, notices a beer can about a foot in front of her. So she reaches for it....and takes a nice swig of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . motor oil.
My dad didn't have time to stop her from where he was at. After it happened he could do nothing but laugh. I wish I knew where he put the picture. I just can't quite grasp it.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You know, I remember first hearing about this story and thinking, "How the heck could a finger have gotten into the chili?" I was a shift manager at a Wendy's over a decade ago, and at that time there wasn't any real way for a cooked finger to wind up in the mix.
All the chili meat, for example, is chopped-up leftover burgers; the meat they put on the grill in advance of orders that doesn't get eaten is, when it gets a bit too well done, put into a container and diced for the next day's chili. The chili seasonings are powder, and the sauce is also reconstituted from powder.
I couldn't think of any way for a finger to get into her chili. If an employee had lost a finger while dicing the meat, people would have noticed; if an employee had somehow lost a finger while filling a bag of spice powder, two people -- the person sealing the bag, and the person pouring the bag into liquid -- would have had the opportunity to notice.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Okay, we have a case of a missing finger, and a case of a finger appearing where it shouldn't be ... I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I'm sensing that this topic has touched on some raw spots for a few of you. Elizabeth, the flipping the bird comment shows a lack of tact I'll wager.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
You are right, Punwit. I will really start to knuckle down.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Once a story about a finger printed, it would naturally be a lively topic of discussion.
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I bet Wendy's management is in a whorlwind of CYA.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I don't see why they have to magnify this situation, though.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I think they're worried the culprit will take a powder.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
And here I thought it was a plot by the RJR/Nabisco/Phillip Morris/Post cereals/Hostess pentavirate. They will do anything to end this low card dieting craze.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Yes, but isn't this taking "finger licking good" to disturbing new levels?
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Well, we all know what putting a finger down your throat does. Maybe someone was making a metaphorical comment on the quality of the chilli.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Is that what you think? Quite a way to finger something out.
-Trevor
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
::insert finger pun here::
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Hey! Quit pulling my finger!
-Trevor
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
umm.. thanks for posting the article.. a long time ago.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
How exciting anther one for Tom and mine top ten list. Cool. The finger in the Wendy’s chili seemed suspicious
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
huh.... go finger. I mean go figure.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I don't eat at Wendy's much, mainly because I mostly avoid fast food. But when I do eat fast food, I prefer Wendy's to most of the other places out there.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:San Jose police say they're investigating a possible connection between the finger and the owner of several exotic animals at Pahrump, Nev., who lost one of her fingers in a leopard attack on Feb. 23.
Wow. Just when you start thinking a story is as weird as it's going to get...
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Soylant green anyone? Tastes like chicken, really.....
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of Soylent Green when I read these kinds of stories... =)
although I do wonder what the other ones were made of...
[ April 14, 2005, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: Goody Scrivener ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
-Trevor
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
I would like to know who's finger it was.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
I once found the greater portion of a large moth fried to a french fry that was on its way to my mouth. *shudder*
At a little fast food place called the Mad Greek. They gave me and my mom a bunch of fre Baklava (sp?).
Seems a moth or two had flown in the drive thru window the night before and fallen in the deep fryer when nobody was looking.
Nothing eves we ordered was fried, and as a student of Biology (at the time) I realized a deep fried moth was probably no worse for me than the deep fried potato.
But the gilr behind the counter nearly fainted. Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Actually, I'd wager that the moth would be quite a bit better for you than the french fry. At least you'd get a little protein.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Still doesn't top the cockroach I found transfixed in splattered oil like a victim of Pompeii, coated with ash in midst of a death throe.
Almost enough to swear off fast food forever.
-Trevor
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
That is gross.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
The poor guy was frozen in mid-stride, one feeble antennae outstretched in humble supplication to the holy fryer.
I don't even want to guess how many layers of oil soaked the countertops around the fryer.
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