Rochelle
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 | 01:42 PM
This is a real story (or else a hoax perpetrated by the victim, but probably real). There's a story here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7285110/ and you can find more stories on this incident by googling it. It wasn't in her fries, it was in her chili. And oddly enough, no one can figure out where the finger came from. My guess is that someone skimped on the sanitary rules after an slicer accident and is too afraid of the legal issues to admit it now. Still, it's awfully strange that no one is coming forward with information about the accident. It's not like you don't notice when someone suddenly has one less finger. |
Rod
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 | 02:06 PM
Maybe they finally found (at least part) of Jimmy Hoffa.
😉
<a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720273/K=human+finger+chili/v=2/SID=w/l=NIR/R=5/SIG=13kpp6o52/EXP=1111957518/*-http%3A//story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050324/photos_ts_afp/050324200409_78s7oiui_photo0">Wendy's</a>. Old Fashioned Hamburgers.
And NEW Fashioned Chili.
"Quality is our recipe"
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Katherine
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 | 04:16 PM
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/chili.finger.reut/index.html">Yep.</a>
Four words for you: SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
(Incidentally, what in the world is a lovenstein? It's my <strike>subliminal message</strike> spam-bot-disabler-thing in this post, and it's worrying me. Is it supposed to be a reference to that thing that went around telling everybody how low Dubya's IQ is?) |
Maegan
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 | 08:19 AM
Hell, at least Soylent Green was disguised. It wasn't PEOPLE shaped. |
James
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 | 11:35 AM
It is real ... see
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chili.asp
Human Finger Found In Fast Food Chili
Health Officials Confirm Finding Was Not Hoax
UPDATED: 7:43 am EST March 24, 2005
A diner's meal at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant brings a whole new meaning
to the term finger food.'
Health authorities in California confirm that a woman bit into a human
finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy's in Tuesday night. She
immediately spit out the finger and warned others to stop eating. Then she
got sick.
Health officials said this is definitely a first for them. They have
confirmed this was not a hoax and that a human finger was indeed found in a
bowl of chili, television station KNTV in San Francisco reported.
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The county medical examiner said the human finger was cooked but not
decomposed. Authorities temporarily closed the Wendy's and seized all the
ingredients at the restaurant.
Officials counted all the fingers of the Wendy's workers -- and say none
had a missing digit. Authorities think the finger must have come from one
of Wendy's suppliers.
Investigators say it appears the finger was torn off, possibly by a piece
of machinery at a processing plant.
They are going over any records at any plants that deal with Wendy's to see
if any accidents have been reported in recent weeks. But where the finger
came from still remains a mystery.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department will also take a fingerprint of
the digit and check it with a nationwide database to see if there is a
match.
As for the Wendy's restaurant, it was closed for a short while but health
officials let it reopen, saying it is now a safe place to eat, KNTV
reported. |
The Curator
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 | 01:11 PM
Lovenstein Institute:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/lovenstein.html
All the spambot words now have some kind of relevance to hoaxes. I got a bit carried away a few days ago and deleted the standard dictionary and replaced it with a list of all the hoaxy words I could think of. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 | 04:50 PM
Do fingers come with all the kiddie meals, or did she win some sort of special prize?
Probably the latter, given how cheap fast-food joints are. |
brian
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 | 09:22 PM
So that woman that bit into a human finger in her cup of Wendy's chili was on Good Morning America this morning, and boy was she ever weird. In particular, she said that she took a bite and bit down on something crunchy. Naturally it turned out the be the finger. |
Katherine
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 | 09:33 PM
I'm picturing someone who works at the Wendy's-food-supplier plant and is a little slow on the uptake listening to all this on the news and then looking at their hand and finally realizing, "Hot damn, I've lost a finger!" 😊 |
Smerk
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 | 10:31 PM
I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned that it's finger-lickin' good. Oh well, it's out there now... :roll: |
Rod
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 | 02:28 AM
If I were an investigator on this case, I think that I'd spend a fair bit of time checking 'ol Pukey's friends, relatives, co-workers, etc for missing digits. "Any industrial accidents at home, lately, ma'am? Any friends in med school? Crack whores buried in the basement?"
From what I have gathered so far, the finger was not cooked, and the chili is cooked at the restaurant. And nobody in the restaurant is missing any of their own fingers. If this is the case, then someone put it in the chili AFTER it was cooked.
And who could have had a motive? Not the Pukemeister. No way.
Unless, of course, some disgruntled employee did it for some stupid reason. But that makes little sense, because what would they gain? Personal satisfaction? MY satisfaction would be fairly limited, I think, if someone else ended up with a few million dollars for something that 'I' did.
However, I am not saying that this is what happened. There could be some more mundane reason that a piece of human flesh (I read somewhere it tastes like pork) ended up in someone's food.
Maybe that new burger flipper/toilet cleaner guy they hired dropped part of his "lunch" and it landed in the chili, and someone took a bowl out before he could find it. The poor bugger would be hungry all day!
I'm fairly interested in finding out what is going to happen with this whole situation.
And I still have not entirely ruled out an April Fools prank for publicity for the restaurant. A bad one, but still possible. Guess I'll have to wait until Friday to find out.
There are limits to neither human ingenuity nor human stupidity when it comes to making money.
And it IS still possible that the whole thing was accidental. But I kind of doubt it, or someone would have stuck up their hand (well, most of it, anyway) to claim the finger. |
Henry
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 09:58 AM
one time I ate at wendy's and found a bug in my frys. |
X
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 12:00 PM
I personally would have kept quiet and keep the finger, maybe nibble on it later!!! It's not everyday you find a body part. Maybe sell it on ebay for someone else to enjoy..PRO ANA!!!!
Finding a pubic hair, now, that would be gross. |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 05:58 PM
Stephen said: I personally would have kept quiet and keep the finger, maybe nibble on it later!!!
That just adds a new (or maybe old) dimension to the term finger food... |
Katherine
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 06:52 PM
Just thought I'd give y'all <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/08/wendy.finger.ap/index.html">an update</a>...in my humble opinion it's quite possible she could turn out to be just another lawsuit-happy loony, but what do I know? 😉 |
Rochelle
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 01:01 PM
If she faked it, and it's a real finger, where did the finger come from? I don't want to think too much about this one. |
Dany
in Waco, Texas
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 12:59 PM
They think she took the finger from her dead aunt. Now that's just gross. |
Rod
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 01:31 PM
As a matter of fact, they have proven (a few days ago) that the finger is/was not her aunt's.
They are, however, still looking into "the possibility that the missing finger was the result of an industrial accident or foul play", according to <a href="http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3187218">this news source.</a>
Apparently, this woman has a history of filing lawsuits. I guess she's never won, or she wouldn't need to do this.
And just imagine, if she's willing to chew on a finger (assuming it ever actually touched her mouth, which I highly doubt), she could have just gone on TV eating gross shit for cash, a la <a href="http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/apply.shtml">Fear Factor</a>. |
Dany
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 01:43 PM
I would go on Fear Factor and eat gross stuff. But then I'm weird that way. |
Myst
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 09:38 PM
Here is the latest on the woman finding a finger in Chili
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=654351
Snip from article:
LAS VEGAS Apr 8, 2005 |
Rod
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 | 10:10 PM
This woman needs to get a life, and stop suing people. Maybe she's related to Tim? (hee hee)
Although Associated Press HAS printed this <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/11368807.htm">retraction</a> of one of their stories...
The original said she had recieved a settlement for her daughter getting sick at a restaurant.
"Lies, lies, lies -- that's all I am hearing," she said. "They should look at Wendy's. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?"
''I used the cooler to keep beer in when I barbecue,'' said Bono, 24. ''I had to get a new one.''
It seems she has changed her focus of complaint a little. Before she was complaining about the finger, now she's whining that they took her cooler. |
Rod
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 | 11:49 AM
Update:
<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/04132005_bb_wendysfinger.html">Woman decline to file suit against Wendy's.</a>
Isn't that basically an admission that you know they had nothing to do with it?
And I'm pretty sure they can take HER to court for what she's done, if they so chose. But they would never get anything out of her.
A guy from Wendy's said "We will continue to fully cooperate with the police investigation.", which to me means that the police are still investigating.
I think she'll probably end up with food tampering charges, or something along those lines, but eventually she's gonna have to tell them where she got the finger. Maybe more charges along those lines.
Well, she DID seem to like visiting courtrooms in the past. 😊 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 03:13 AM
Hmmm...<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/22/wendys.finger.ap/index.html">arrested</a> for what, I wonder? |
Rod
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 12:48 PM
Okay, I realized during the week that I have been remiss in my duties in regard to this thread...
Not enough bad jokes or silly questions.
SO...
I'll bet she really knocked 'em dead with the "severed finger in a box" gag when she was a little kid...
<a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/22/finger22.TMP">This article</a> claims she was arrested in relation to the case, but offers no details.
"I had just left to get some soda at the store, and when I came back she was gone and there were cars from the (Las Vegas and San Jose) police," said Bono, 23, who lives with Ayala. "They said it for grand theft or something."
"People can say what they want and destroy my family, but it's not true," Ayala said last week. "This is really ruining my kids and me and dragging my family through the mud. It's killing us."
Poor, poor (no pun intended) woman.
:lol: |
TWM
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 01:33 PM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-04-22T154755Z_01_N22325413_RTRIDST_0_ODD-CRIME-WENDYS-DC.XML |
Rod
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 | 01:54 PM
<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-04-22T154755Z_01_N22325413_RTRIDST_0_ODD-CRIME-WENDYS-DC.XML">Fixed link</a> for the above post...
Apparently the article got bumped from their front page... |
Rod
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 12:54 AM
<a href="http://www.nationalledger.com/scribe/archives/2005/04/police_claim_we.shtml">Police Claim Wendy's Finger Case a Hoax</a>
For anyone interested, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/22/finger22.TMP">here</a> is a fairly in-depth article on the situation.
Wow, this woman either had balls-o'-steel, or absolutely NO fucking brains whatsoever. Apparently she's tried some pretty ballsy/stupid stuff.
Now, I guess, I'll have to wait a while to see how much time she gets. |
Dany
in Waco, Texas
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 | 11:51 AM
I think she's lawsuit happy. |
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 | 07:03 AM
It's because of people like her that make me think there should be a cap on trying to sue someone.
Seriously, wait to sue when you get a stethescope left in your bowel. |
Rod
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 | 12:08 AM
Boy, did I call this one or what?
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050513/ap_on_re_us/wendy_s_finger">The Digital Blues.</a>
I wonder what percentage they promised the guy whose finger they used? After all, with the way medicine is today, I'm pretty sure they could have re-attached it. It's not like it was put through a blender or anything.
"Sgt. Nick Muyo said someone other than the man who lost the finger called in the tip to the hot line."
Umm, Maybe he's still learnig to dial without the missing finger...
:lol:
But THIS is just disturbing...
"Nevada employers are only required to report deaths or injuries causing the hospitalization of three or more employees"
So, if seveteen get injured but don't see the doctor, it never happened?
"Jeez, men, sorry aboot the fingers. We'll pay you to take the next two months off, as long as you don't go to the doctor. We've got one on site here that's the best. Meet Dr. Nick Riviera."
Only in a state set up by the mob. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 | 05:22 PM
Jail time for her and her husband.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4626232.stm |
lofty
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 | 03:38 AM
was nt the guy paid only $100 for his finger
and they were claiming 2.3million |
dirt_poor_for_life
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 | 09:26 AM
I say it was just stupid. |
