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…..
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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.
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So are you saying that the bottling process is solid and hard to get things by or that things happen.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Especially when you go to a college in Vermont, where everyone is too healthy to smoke, but unhealthy enough to chew.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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