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Woman Won't Sue Wendy's for Alleged Finger

wordmunger said:
She was arrested for "larceny," as in probably theft of a certain body part from a corpse. :eek:
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necro-larcney?

ew....

either that or she has a friend in a morgue and one night over drinks they came up with this silly plot...

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wordmunger said:
She was arrested for "larceny," as in probably theft of a certain body part from a corpse. :eek:
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That'll be the least of the charges, I would think. Extortion, fraud, filing false police reports...
 
wordmunger said:
She was arrested for "larceny," as in probably theft of a certain body part from a corpse. :eek:
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The problem was she didn't cook the finger before placing in the chili.

The chili comes cooked from the supplier, and is put in a crockpot at a minimum temp required by law. It would be cooked in any case.

There are only two possibilities, she stole a body part -- or an employee at the Wendy's store did it.
 
Sun Baked said:
The problem was she didn't cook the finger before placing in the chili.

The chili comes cooked from the supplier, and is put in a crockpot at a minimum temp required by law. It would be cooked in any case.

There are only two possibilities, she stole a body part -- or an employee at the Wendy's store did it.
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ooooh, this is good. Should turn out to be quite a story when they finally get all the details :D

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What was the television series, where the long running joke was that one of the charaters ate a foot? served in the chili or soup... :confused:
 
Sun Baked said:
The problem was she didn't cook the finger before placing in the chili.
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That and it was "well-manicured." Somehow, I can't imagine workers in a chili production facility having well-manicured hands that aren't covered with plastic gloves.

Man, if she'd just stuck with something less "trackable." A missing finger is going to get reported somewhere if it happens in the distribution chain. A piece of metal, or plastic, or a fingernail, or something else, perhaps.

Hmmm. If you read anything about some guy in Chicago finding a metal object in his McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese, it isn't me :cool:
 
Mr. Anderson said:
ooooh, this is good. Should turn out to be quite a story when they finally get all the details :D

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I just cant imagine where she got the dang finger! Ick
 
I'm so glad she's arrested!!!

The finger must be from her dead aunt!!!


I wonder if anyone is going to make a TV movie out of this incident?
 
SF Chronicle: Ayala charged with attempted grand theft in Wendy's finger case
Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested at her Las Vegas home Thursday night on a charge of felony attempted grand theft, including a penalty enhancement for inflicting more than $2.5 million in losses on Wendy's. The chain says its sales have plummeted since Ayala reported chomping down on a bit of severed finger in a bowl of chili at a San Jose Wendy's one month ago today.

Ayala was also charged with felony grand theft in an unrelated case, for allegedly swindling a Spanish-speaking woman out of $11,000 by "selling" her a San Jose mobile home that Ayala didn't own between September 2002 and November 2003.

Ayala could face more than six years in prison if convicted...

...Police knitted together a circumstantial case in documents supporting the arrest warrant, noting that an initial forensic analysis showed the fingertip had not been cooked at 170 degrees for three hours, which is how Wendy's prepares its chili.
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Police knitted together a circumstantial case in documents supporting the arrest warrant, noting that an initial forensic analysis showed the fingertip had not been cooked at 170 degrees for three hours, which is how Wendy's prepares its chili.
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One thing I love about news stories these days is that they make sure you now know how to do the things that stupid people get caught at :D

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Hopefully their case will be good - I'd hate to see someone get off on a technicality. Just think of all the finger-pointing we'd have then.
 
craigdawg said:
...Police knitted together a circumstantial case in documents supporting the arrest warrant, noting that an initial forensic analysis showed the fingertip had not been cooked at 170 degrees for three hours, which is how Wendy's prepares its chili.
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Told you it wasn't cooked.

Crockpot 101 would show you that the picture of the finger in the chili looked too good to have been in the pot any length of time.

Usually the cooking process should have made the meat fall off the bone, the nail come loose, and the skin pick up the color of the sauce. Basically nothing but the nail and the bones should have come through.

Of course it seems the lady aced the Crackpot 501 course.
 
Well, here's a different case, but it seems like the guy complaining actually might be right:

Man says he found skin on sandwich

Associated Press

DAYTON, Ohio - A man is suing a fast-food restaurant operator for more than $50,000, claiming he found a slice of skin on his chicken sandwich.

David Scheiding filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on April 1 after rejecting a settlement offer from GZK Inc., his lawyer said. GZK owns the Arby's restaurant in Tipp City where he bought the sandwich.

Scheiding said he realized something wasn't right when he bit into the sandwich on June 18 and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long.

"It looked like I was seeing fingerprints on it," he said. "I got sick and went to the bathroom."

Miami County health investigators talked to the restaurant manager, who had a bandage on his right thumb and wore a latex glove, according to a health district report. The manager said he sliced skin from the thumb while shredding lettuce, and sanitized the area but didn't throw away the bin of lettuce, the report said. Scheiding's sandwich contained lettuce.

"Why wasn't the food searched, and why wasn't it thrown away?" said Scheiding's lawyer, Hank Hyde.

Christine Koeller, vice president of marketing and communications with GZK, said what happened was unintentional.

"(The manager) did destroy product that was in and around the slicer immediately, and did everything that he thought was appropriate to do," Koeller said.
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Counterfit said:
What about midochlorians? :D
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Gah. Don't even get me started on midichlorians. You'd think that if George Lucas was going to come up with a concept as lame as that, he could've thought up a name that wasn't QUITE so reminiscent of "mitochondria".

Counterfit said:
You'd like my Jazz Band director then :D
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Perhaps. Details/picture? ;)
 
I think she got the idea from the south park episode Scott tennerman must die!! They have a chilli cookoff between cartman and scott tennerman and cartman feeds his parents to them in you guessed it chilli????????????????????? :eek:

just a thought
 
emw said:
That'll be the least of the charges, I would think. Extortion, fraud, filing false police reports...
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Yeah, there is some federal law that protects the big companies from frivolous claims. I think it was passed in '85 but I forgot the name. Basically, all the big corps have their own investigatory agencies. If you claim you found a bivot in your steak taco at Bell, you have to sign an official document stating it is true. Once signed, you set yourself up for fraud convictions (if the claim is bogus).

I believe there are a lot of people out there who think that if they whip up an outlandish claim, the company/franchise will cut them a quick check to shut them up and save their rep.

This law skewered around a dozen people back in the 90s over the whole mouse in a pepsi can ordeal including a lawyer.

Similar topic: I knew a kid who showed up loaded for work at a Little Caesars. He had a bad cut on his hand and had a big band-aid protecting it. Well, after an hour he noticed the band-aid had vanished. What ensued was panic of an epic proportion and the store was searched top-down.

Eventually, some lady showed up with 2 kids in tow and a bag of crazy bread. Inside the bag was the band-aid baked onto one of the sticks.

He quit right there on the spot.
 
clayj said:
Perhaps. Details/picture? ;)
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A picture might take a while. HOWEVER, you are in luck my friend, as she informed her students today that she'll be taking a job at a small college "back home" in NC. :( :( :(
That leaves my school without a clarinet/sax teacher, or a jazz band director.


Edit: HOORAY! Note: her hair is about chin-length now.
 
I guess the criminal part of this is almost over...
Couple Plead Guilty in Wendy's Finger Case

By PAUL SAKUMA
The Associated Press
Friday, September 9, 2005; 10:27 PM

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A Nevada couple pleaded guilty Friday to all charges related to planting a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a scheme to extort money from the fast food restaurant chain....

...Ayala also pleaded guilty to defrauding a woman by selling a motor home she didn't own, and Placencia also pleaded guilty to failing to pay child support.

Ayala faces up to nearly 10 years in state prison when sentenced Nov. 2. Her husband faces up to 13 years behind bars.
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clayj said:
Technically, a human finger IS real meat. :eek:

And I guess it would taste like chicken, just like babies taste of chicken... cannibals tell us that human flesh tastes of chicken, so babies taste of chicken... and chicken tastes of babies. <pause> OK, glad you're coming with me on that one. (For 10 points, name the comedian who said this.)
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EDDIE IZZARD :D :D :D :D :D :D

Jesus
 
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