Wendy's chili (or "pull my finger")

[Bella]

Human digit found in Wendy's chili... (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285110/)

I can't believe I hadn't caught wind of this story earlier. A friend of mine had to send me a link to this article.

[Ex-zombie]

The truth is definitely stranger than any urban legend I've heard about what people have found in their food. Hair, roaches, and flies just don't compare to a human fingertip.

[John Carter]

My initial reactoin to hearing about this was that it is probably anither urban legend. It seems that I was wrong.

Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chili.asp) has more details. One thing I found particularly intersting is that apparently the finger was torn rather than cut:

"The segment of skin has very irregular torn edges, it looks like its lacerated," said Joseph O'Hara, a medical examiner. "It's not incised — incised meaning it would have been with a sharp edge like a knife or something, that was not the case — it was torn, it had multiple puncture defects."

The county medical examiner said the human finger was cooked but not decomposed.

They also report that the woman who found the finger has already retained an attorney.

[livius drusus]

They also report that the woman who found the finger has already retained an attorney.

And now she's been arrested (http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/04/22/wendys-finger050422.html). Something is definitely rotten in Denmark, and I don't mean the chili.

[Dingfod]

This turn of events makes me wonder if the DNA tests on the finger came back showing it belonged to the woman's dead aunt.

[Legs]

There is a Police news conference scheduled for noon today LOL

Can't wait to hear the whole story

[PinkRose]

could DNA determine whether the finger was male or female?

[TomJoe]

could DNA determine whether the finger was male or female?

Yes.

[PinkRose]

what was the sex of the chilli finger then? when will these damn places have cameras to track these fraudulent people? another food scare gone wrong & no money! hahahahahahaha

[TomJoe]

No mention of what the gender was. They probably have not gotten that far.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/01/BAGLHC1Q0F1.DTL

This article is 3 weeks old, but describes what they intended to do. I'll see if I can find something a bit more recent.

Update: Apparently it belonged to a woman.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/23/MNGFFCE37F1.DTL

[John Carter]

According to this more recent article (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/23/MNGFFCE37F1.DTL) it has been "tentatively identified" as being female.

[Legs]

And the Finger belongs to........
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The finger that a woman said she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the digit in an industrial accident, police said Friday.

"The jig is up. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place, and the truth is being exposed," Police Chief Rob Davis said.

The man is from Nevada and lost a part of his finger in an accident last December, Davis said. His identity was traced through a tip made to Wendy's hot line, he said.

He said authorities "positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip."

From the associated press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WENDYS_FINGER?SITE=MIPOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

[JoeP]

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The man is from Nevada and lost a part of his finger in an accident last December, Davis said. His identity was traced through a tip made to Wendy's hot line, he said.

He said authorities "positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip."
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Did he really say a tip? The guy was fingered? All the evidence pointed to him?

[Legs]

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The man is from Nevada and lost a part of his finger in an accident last December, Davis said. His identity was traced through a tip made to Wendy's hot line, he said.

He said authorities "positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip."
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Did he really say a tip? The guy was fingered? All the evidence pointed to him?

Yes, today we got the thumbs up that the long arm of the law fingered this guy and hopefully he will get more than just a slap on the wrist

[JoeP]

Even though he wasn't caught red-handed, he clearly was at one point.

I assume they have his prints on file now.

And I hope they acknowledge everyone who had a hand in solving this affair.

[Legs]

Even though he wasn't caught red-handed, he clearly was at one point.
I assume they have his prints on file now.


Fingeratively speaking of course.. that's just so cute(ical) :P

This woman thought she had the world eating out of the palm of her hand instead she got a knuckle sandwich

I saw her digital photo... she didn't look very buffed or polished maybe her husband is handsom?

This whole thing has me biting my nails :yup:

[Crumb]

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/StopPuns.gif

[PinkRose]

Male Ring Finger.

[Legs]

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/StopPuns.gif

I gotta hand it to you, Crumb ~ you always have the appropriate smilie

high-fives

[Crumb]

I scratched that one together using sand, paper clips and bailing twine. :macgyver:

[Legs]

I scratched that one together using sand, paper clips and bailing twine. :macgyver:


I give it 2 thumbs up

[JoeP]

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/StopPuns.gif
Yes, this has gone too far. It's a good thing it wasn't a toe in the chili, or we might be looking for the offending leg(s). Hop it.

[Legs]

http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~conradj/StopPuns.gif
Yes, this has gone too far. It's a good thing it wasn't a toe in the chili, or we might be looking for the offending leg(s). Hop it.


The fickle finger of fate can even make you lose a toe?

[JoeP]

Listen, I'm going to put the boot in if you don't stamp this out at once.

But it could bring a whole new meaning to the oft-heard "darling, my toes are chilly"...

[Legs]

Listen, I'm going to put the boot in if you don't stamp this out at once.


JoeP, I know you like I know the back of my hand don't make me give you the finger :glare:

[Legs]

The couple who schemed to defraud Wendy's restaurant chain by planting a severed human finger in a bowl of chili received nearly the maximum punishments possible Wednesday.

Santa Clara County Judge Edward Davila sentenced (http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13664289.htm) Anna Ayala to nine years in prison and her husband, Jaime Plascencia, to 12 years, four months behind bars.

"Greed and avarice overtook this couple, and they lost their moral compass," he said.

[Dingfod]

"Greed and avarice..."Isn't that redundant?

[D. Scarlatti]

Greed is reasonable - albeit excessive - desire, whereas avarice is unreasonable excessive desire. So it's not so much redundant as contradictory. They were both reasonably and unreasonably excessively desirous.

Anyway, a lawyer said it, so don't be surprised.