News & Politics - Diner finds Finger in Chili

Cantbehrit · 03-24-2005, 01:04 PM

From CNN

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Officials: Diner finds finger in chili
Thursday, March 24, 2005 Posted: 8:48 AM EST (1348 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- A diner at a Wendy's fast food restaurant in San Jose, California, found a human finger in a bowl of chili prepared by the chain, local officials said Wednesday.

"This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it," said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. "Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited."

Local officials launched an investigation after the incident Tuesday night and the medical examiner determined Wednesday that the object was a human finger.

Officials are trying to determine whether the finger came in the raw materials Wendy's used to prepare the chili, Gale said.

Wendy's International Inc. corporate office did not immediately return a call for comment. Wendy's is the third-largest hamburger chain.

My husband loves their chili...........ewwwww. I don't eat that much fast food because of where they get their meat but this tops it.

Cantbehrit

Lain · 03-24-2005, 01:08 PM

So many strange things to find in fast food resteraunts. I believe there was a razor blade (or something like that) found in a McDonalds Happy Meal.

Something tragic must've happened back in the meat factory.

**Mio** · 03-24-2005, 08:02 PM

I too would hurl. My god who would want to have a severed human finger in their mouth?

TooTallVal · 03-24-2005, 08:27 PM

Now I'm hearing it was probably from a mannequin! But still man! What a sickening joke!

summerbug · 03-25-2005, 07:03 AM

I believe a county coroner determined that it was a human finger. Go to USA Today's news section and scroll down to the offbeat news. That article has a video link in it (you might have to scroll again for the video after you go to the video section. The pic is of a bowl of Wendy's chili of course).

My guess would be probably during the meat processing but ew! Other people could have eaten smaller pieces of it from the batch. That is awful!

LittleMilkJug · 03-25-2005, 08:33 AM

Ewwwwwwwwwwww and again ewwwwwwwwwww

roswellain_chick16 · 03-26-2005, 07:08 AM

I know what I would never be able to eat again.....

I cant even imagine, I probably wouldnt even be able to eat again!

*Elle* · 03-26-2005, 04:31 PM

EWW. I've been to that Wendy's. I really need to stop eating fast food.

-Kelly- · 03-26-2005, 08:59 PM

Eww...it reminds me of that Buffy eppy

Vampires_Bite · 03-27-2005, 11:45 AM

"Wendy's Chilli is PEOPLE"

Laugh if you understand, look blankly at your screen and say 'huh' if you don't

**Mio** · 04-22-2005, 11:26 AM

Okay.. this is getting weird and weirder by the minute...

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(Yahoo! News)

LAS VEGAS - The woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month has been arrested, the latest twist in a bizarre case about how the 1 1/2-inch finger tip ended up in a bowl of fast food.

Anna Ayala was taken into custody late Thursday at her Las Vegas home. She was arrested on a warrant alleging grand larceny and attempted grand larceny, Las Vegas Police Sgt. Chris Jones said.

Authorities said would not provide further details until a news conference Friday afternoon in San Jose, Calif. — the city where Ayala claimed she bit down on the finger in a mouthful of her steamy stew.

Ayala's 18-year-old son, Guadalupe Reyes, said he had gone to the store around 9 p.m. when he got a phone call from a friend who was back at the Las Vegas home.

"We rushed back and she was already gone," Reyes said.

Reyes said he had no other details and was waiting to hear from his mother. A handwritten sign on the door of her home Friday morning instructed reporters not to knock, and telephone messages were not returned.

Ayala, 39, was held overnight at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, where records showed she was being held without bail.

In Ohio, Wendy's officials praised the police's actions. "We're thrilled that an arrest has been made," Tom Mueller, president and chief operating officer of Wendy's North America, said in a statement.

Ayala's claim that she found the fingertip, complete with a well-manicured nail, on March 22 initially drew sympathy. But when police and health officials failed to find any missing digits among the workers involved in the restaurant's supply chain, suspicion fell on Ayala, and her story has become a late-night punch line.

Ayala hired a lawyer and filed a claim against the Wendy's franchise owner, Fresno-based JEM Management. But after police searched her home in Las Vegas and continued to question her family, she dropped the lawsuit threat, saying the whole situation was just too stressful.

As it turns out, Ayala has a litigious history. She has filed claims against several corporations, including a former employer and General Motors, though it is unclear from court records whether she received any money. She said she got $30,000 from El Pollo Loco after her 13-year-old daughter got sick at one of the chain's Las Vegas-area restaurants. But El Pollo Loco spokeswoman Julie Weeks said last week that the company reviewed Ayala's February 2004 claim and paid her nothing.

Earlier Thursday, Wendy's International Inc. announced it had ended its internal investigation, saying it could find no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain.

Sales have dropped at franchises in Northern California, forcing layoffs and reduced hours, the company said. Wendy's also has hired private investigators, set up a hot line for tips and offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who provides information leading to the finger's original owner.

sick little jag · 04-22-2005, 12:00 PM

Yeah, I heard about it this morning on the news...I was going to look for the thread to post about it. If she really made it up then that woman is a retard. Like, did she not think they wouldn't be able to disprove her story when they didn't find a human finger in her chili? (also, ew)

Lain · 04-22-2005, 09:41 PM

R-e-t...a-r-d...Look what I found in Wendy's Chili

What is this woman? Poor? And this isn't her first time to pull something bizzare as this!

mh67511 · 04-23-2005, 08:18 AM

The sad thing is her little hoax caused sales to drop in the area and many of the restaurants had to layoff workers or cut back hours drastically.S ome people probably depend on these jobs just to put food on their tables. I hope she is charged and found guilty. It's not funny and it hurts the economy a lot!

**Mio** · 04-23-2005, 12:45 PM

Maybe I should sue her. I may not live in San Diego or San Jose (where ever it was found), but I sure stayed away from Wendy's for a while and I loooove their chili.


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