It seems to me that they would have released a little more info, but hey, it's only been online for 2 days.
The lack of info, of course, makes me question its authenticity.
I would have to imagine that whoever lost their finger didn't just keep working and bleeding all over everything.
I think they probably would have noticed the digital reduction, if not the torrents of blood.
And did it get washed before it hit the fries? If it didn't would there not be blood all over the fries?
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.
(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
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 | 07:19 AM
Hell, at least Soylent Green was disguised. It wasn't PEOPLE shaped.
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.
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.
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.
My question is this: Did anyone expect a human finger, cooked in a vat o' chili to be crunchy? I would have guessed, perhaps, tender. Or even rich and meaty. You know how stewed meat gets all soft? But crunchy? Like a tortilla chip? NEVER. If Wendy's chili were any good that meat should have been falling off the bone.
But it does make me wonder about the lady's credibility. Now she has a lawyer, an exclusive on GMA, and she "thinking" about suing. I guess "thinking" is a euphemism for "planning to buy your own island in Micronesia after you cash in on the settlement".
By far, the best story on the whole Wendy's chili fiasco is a little piece (no pun intended) I read on nosheteria.com. Photos included: Nosheteria - It's Digit-licious
Katherine
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 | 08:33 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!"
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
in Nashville, TN
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 08:58 AM
one time I ate at wendy's and found a bug in my frys.
X Member
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 11:00 AM
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!!!!
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
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 04:52 PM
Just thought I'd give y'all an update...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
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 11:01 AM
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 Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 10:59 AM
They think she took the finger from her dead aunt. Now that's just gross.
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 this news source.
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 Fear Factor.
Dany
in Waco, Texas Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 11:43 AM
I would go on Fear Factor and eat gross stuff. But then I'm weird that way.
LAS VEGAS Apr 8, 2005 — The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits including a claim against another fast-food restaurant.
Anna Ayala, 39, who hired a San Jose, Calif., attorney to represent her in the Wendy's case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco Bay area, according to court records.
