Blazing flashing pumpkins!!!! Gee wilikers.... so glad I don't like chilli... Next time you go for a bit to eat and a bowl of chili... make sure you are wearing your glasses... Or if you don't have any... just borrow a pair form a mate... coz.....

Diner finds finger in chili at Wendy's

Friday, March 25, 2005
Associated Press

A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in California, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit. The incident occurred Tuesday night at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant and left the customer ill and distraught, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Health Department.

"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."

Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the incident Tuesday night. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food-processing plant that supplies the company.

"All of our employees have 10 digits," said Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio. He said there have been no reports to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration of injuries at any supplier of chili ingredients to Wendy's.

Investigators seized the remaining chili and closed the restaurant for a few hours late Tuesday. Health officials said the fingertip was about 1½ inches long. They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

Dingo
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Maybe they can trace the owner by asking it to point to who it belongs to? Just a thought.

Ben

yeah watched that on news, ya never know what you're gonna get at a diner...

ewwwwwwww
yucky blech yucky blech

hugs
P_Goddess

Yumm!!!! :eating: :thumbsup:

yeah..whats sa diget? o.O

iwas thinking maybe check the morgues in area as someone could have chopped off a dead finger from one of them cadavers or someone cut off finger from dead body being dissected at colleges.

Hey Dingooooooooooo!!!!!! Just thought I'd update ya lass!!!! LOL You'll piss yerself when ya read this.........

Woman lied about finger in Chilli

They said Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested Thursday night at her home in Las Vegas, Nevada, on a charge of attempted grand theft in connection with the episode.

Ayala was also charged with grand theft in connection with an unrelated incident uncovered during the course of the Wendy's investigation. She is accused of bilking a woman out of $11,000 in a real estate transaction.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis said Ayala will be extradited to California.

Ayala filed a claim against Wendy's after she reported the finger in her chili, but she dropped it after police investigators obtained a search warrant for her home.

Police offered few details about what they called the hoax, however, saying the investigation was still in progress.

One question that remains: Where did the finger come from?

Police said Friday they are still trying to determine the answer, and investigators have concluded that Wendy's was not to blame.

Read all about it, Read all about it!!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/22/Wendys.hoax/index.html

Ben

Police say that a friend of hers lost his finger in an insustrial accident and she took it from him.

what a strange case!
I would hate to find a finger in my food, especially after trying to bite into it...

An update and a 9 year jail term each for two over this finger job... Plus the husband got an extra 3 years on top for not paying support to an ex wife and 5 kids... I think there's a moral here which goes something like keep your fingers to yourself...

Couple jailed over finger scam
January 19, 2006

A California court sentenced a couple to nine years in prison today for planting a severed human finger in a bowl of chili to swindle a Wendy's fast food restaurant. A judge in Santa Clara Superior Court sentenced Anna Ayala and her husband Jaime Plascencia to nine years imprisonment for their role in the Wendy's scam, which caused a sharp fall in sales at the third-largest US burger chain.

The husband was given another three years and four months for not paying support for the five children he has with another woman in an unrelated case, giving him a total sentence of 12 years, four months behind bars.

Both received near the maximum possible punishment in their cases. "I am truly sorry. I owe Wendy's and its employees an apology," a sobbing Ayala told the court. "Wendy's had always been my family's favourite fast food restaurant." She called her actions "a moment of poor judgment," and told her family: "For all the shame I brought upon them I am sorry, I am so sorry."

Ayala, 40, who had been a Las Vegas resident, had initially claimed that she discovered the finger after buying the bowl of chili last March. She hired a lawyer and complained publicly about the experience, attracting wide attention to the seemingly bizarre incident.

Investigators later determined Plascencia obtained the piece of finger from a co-worker who had lost the top of a finger in an industrial accident at a Las Vegas paving company. The man had turned over the finger fragment to settle a $US50 ($A66) debt. "I am extremely remorseful," said Plascencia, 43, who, like his wife, wore prison garb to the hearing at which television cameras were permitted.

Wendy's International, based in Dublin, Ohio, paid a $US100,000 ($A133,000) reward for information to help establish the source of the severed finger. Company officials said it took Wendy's months to recover from the bad publicity and lost millions of dollars in sales because of the incident. At one point it gave away free ice cream to try to lure customers back into its San Jose area restaurants.

Finger Scam

Dingo
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Pwned.

9 years eh? She can count them on each finger - I guess that's why the judge didn't give her ten - there will always be one that hurts more than the others.

Ben

Ehh, she will only serve 2 probably. The rest is probation as long as she's good in jail.
Of course if something shows up in the prison food, she will be the first questioned.