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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: FrankZappa on March 25, 2005, 06:31:27 am
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Woman who claimed to find finger in chili arrested
Friday, April 22, 2005 Posted: 6:39 AM EDT (1039 GMT)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The woman who claimed she found a well-manicured finger in her bowl of Wendy\'s chili last month was arrested Thursday night in Las Vegas, police said.
Anna Ayala was taken into custody at her home, San Jose police spokesman Enrique Garcia said. He said police would not give any details until a news conference Friday afternoon. Las Vegas police also refused to comment.
The arrest is the latest twist in the bizarre case about how the 11/2-inch fingertip ended up in a bowl of fast-food chili.
Ayala told police she found the finger March 22 while eating at a Wendy\'s in San Jose. She said she intended to sue but relented, claiming the publicity was too emotionally taxing.
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, whose story has become a late-night punch line.
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. El Pollo Loco officials say she did not get a dime.
Earlier Thursday, Ohio-based 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.
All the employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers, and no suppliers reported any hand or finger injuries, the company said.
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.
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I will testify under oath that the last time I gave Wendy\'s the finger was in high school.
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FORGET THE **** TOE!!!
i like the wording..... "chomped on"....... "initially, she was grossed out".......
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Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005
In another development, Wendy\'s on Thursday offered a $50,000 reward for the first person to provide verifiable information leading to the origin of the finger.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
How long before some sick freak lobs off his (own/girlfriends/mothers/etc) finger just to collect the money? Grave robbers of the world unite!
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Posted on Fri, Apr. 08, 2005
Home of woman who reported finger in chili searched
By Sandra Gonzales
Mercury News
The saga of the mysterious finger in a bowl of Wendy\'s chili continues.
Authorities have searched the Las Vegas home of the woman who reported it. No one is saying what they were looking for.
``I\'d like to know, too,\'\' said a distraught Anna Ayala from her home in Las Vegas on Thursday night. ``I\'ve been dragged through the mud. We\'ve been treated like animals. I\'ve been through too much.\'\'
Ayala, 39, said police officers were at her home from about 4 to 11 p.m. Wednesday. She said they ransacked her home, broke down doors and even pointed a gun to her head at one point.
``They destroyed my home,\'\' said Ayala, who would not say what, if anything, police took.
She scoffed at TV news reports Thursday that suggested the finger may have belonged to a deceased aunt. She said all her aunts are alive.
``It\'s a bunch of lies,\'\' she said.
San Jose police officer Gina Tepoorten confirmed that local investigators along with the Las Vegas police served a search warrant Wednesday, but she wouldn\'t divulge further details.
``We\'re not going to put out our findings,\'\' Tepoorten said. ``We\'re going to conduct a thorough investigation into this case, and our investigators are talking to everybody involved, and that includes customers at Wendy\'s at the time as well as the finder of the finger.\'\'
Asked if the search suggested that authorities were investigating the possibility the finger may have been planted, Tepoorten said, ``We\'re looking into all possibilities.\'\'
Tepoorten emphasized those possibilities could include an industrial accident or an unreported homicide.
In another development, Wendy\'s on Thursday offered a $50,000 reward for the first person to provide verifiable information leading to the origin of the finger.
Wendy\'s officials said every restaurant employee had been interviewed and no one has suffered a hand injury nor were any such injuries reported by any of its suppliers of the chili ingredients.
``With all the facts we have, we find no credible evidence that Wendy\'s was the source of the foreign object,\'\' said Bob Bertini, a spokesman for Wendy\'s. ``At this point it\'s important for us to know the truth.\'\'
Ayala was dining at Wendy\'s fast-food restaurant on Monterey Road in San Jose on March 22 when she chomped on the tip of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili.
The case, which could have been written off as an urban legend, gained nationwide attention after Santa Clara County\'s medical examiner determined the finger was genuine.
Ayala has since hired a lawyer, and several agencies are continuing the search for the finger\'s owner.
The finger is with the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner\'s Office, which is conducting DNA tests that could turn up the race and gender of the person it was once attached to.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/11342760.htm
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In N Out is also up in NoCal. I ate there for lunch today in Long Beach. No trip to the S.D. Zoo tomorrow so I\'ll catch you when Breakfast makes it westward.
Cool. Last I saw the farthest north In N\' Out was Ventura by Magic Mtn. Well I tore up my back a bit working @ Motley Crue, so i would of had to beg off anyway if you came down. Keep it real up there and try and make way for The Breakfast through the forest of TLG and ALO fans up north. LOL
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LOL One of Socal\'s finest inventions the Double Double ANIMAL style! How did you come across In N\' Out Zurflu?
In N Out is also up in NoCal. I ate there for lunch today in Long Beach. No trip to the S.D. Zoo tomorrow so I\'ll catch you when Breakfast makes it westward.
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In N\' Out Burger!!
LOL One of Socal\'s finest inventions the Double Double ANIMAL style! How did you come across In N\' Out Zurflu?
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its there new healthier finger foods
:lol: Good one!
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its there new healthier finger foods
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Welcome to Good Burger, would you like a good burger
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Good Eats.......
In N\' Out Burger!!
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Good Eats.......
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mmmmmmm......tasty!!! :drool:
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Dave Thomas is rolling in his grave.
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i say she sues for about $8mil...
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http://www2.cbs5.com/localnews/local_story_082152759.html (http://www2.cbs5.com/localnews/local_story_082152759.html)
Human Finger Found in Fast Food Chili
Mar 23, 2005 12:27 pm US/Pacific
A woman who ordered chili at a San Jose Wendy\'s Restaurant found a cooked human finger in her bowl.
The Wendy\'s on Monterey Highway was still open Thursday while the Santa Clara County Health Department investigated. But officials there said it was definitely a human finger -- complete with a long manicured fingernail -- and it probably did not come from a Bay Area Wendy\'s employee.
"We have no evidence of any accident within the employees at the facility itself," said Ben Gale of the Santa Clara County Health Department. "We\'ve asked everybody to show us they have ten fingers and everything is OK there."
The incident came to light about 7:20pm Wednesday, when the woman called 911.
"Initially she did put this object in her mouth and did bite down on it," said Dr. Marty Fensterscheib of the Santa Clara County Health Department. "Initially, she was a bit grossed out ... and vomited a number of times."
The fingerprint is mutilated, but officials believe there might be enough there to run the print through a national computer to try to find the owner. The finger has jagged edges, which means it was likely lacerated by a machine -- possibly a meat grinder.
The health department says Wednesday\'s batch of chili was likely cooked at a hot enough temperature to kill any diseases, so nobody should get sick from eating there. Health officials are trying to trace where the ingredients came from, but they\'ve decided it\'s OK for the store to remain open in the meantime.
"We are as anxious as anyone else to get to the bottom of this," said Wendy\'s spokesperson Bob Bertini.
By Joe Vazquez