and i like wendy's................
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=4&u=/ap/20050325/ap_on_bi_ge/wendy_s_finger

a finger in the chili.......good thing i never order THAT stuff.

I had a Wendy's chili a couple of weeks ago ..... I swallowed something strange. Thought it was just a big lima bean?

Lends a whole new meaning to the term "finger food".

I'm curious to how this plays out. Too many people out to make an easy buck. I'd count the digits on the chili eaters family first. ;)

I don't think that Chili was made at Wendys. My guess would be that it comes in 5gl pails, pre-cooked from Hienz or Smithfield foods but I could be wrong. The QC that occurs at food plants is very tight. I but when the CSI guys investigate this it will be from a Wendys employee or the complaintant.

From what I read, the cops show up and asked to see all the employees hands. They had all their digits. And OSHA says there's been no report of accidents or injury in any of Wendy's food prep facilities. They're going to try to get a print from the finger and go from there. Makes you wonder where the rest of the person is. Somebody gets a finger hacked off and doesn't report it? Probably an illegal alien and is afraid to report it for fear of getting fired. Stand by!



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Couldn't be from the food processing facilities - no illeagals there :eek:

at least it wasn't "super sized"......

Seems my inability to eat at restaurants is becoming more and more of a blessing in disguise...

At least you know it contains redmeat. Anyone that eats at one of those ***** factories should expect it. Rent "SuperSize Me" if you have any doubts.

This lends new meaning to the term "finger food".

A little blurb on the news last night reported they suspect the chili eater might have cut the finger off of a dead relative. Nothing concrete yet... but I could say they are starting to point a finger. ;)

pinky swear? :D

More likely that she brought it with her, although where she got it remains a valid question.

I did enjoy the "victimized by Wendy's again" bit though...

Tim


From the AP today:



Wendy's accuser no stranger to lawsuits


By Ken Ritter
Associated Press

April 9, 2005

LAS VEGAS -- The woman who says 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.

She filed a lawsuit against an ex-boss in 1998 alleging sexual harassment and sued an auto dealership in 2000, alleging a wheel fell off her car. That suit was dismissed after Ayala fired her lawyer, who said she had threatened him.

Speaking through the front door of her Las Vegas home Friday, Ayala said police are out to get her and were unnecessarily rough as they executed a search warrant at her home Wednesday.

"Lies, lies, lies, that's all I am hearing," she said. "They should look at Wendy's. Why are we being victimized again and again?"

Ayala acknowledged, however, that her family received a settlement for their medical expenses about a year ago after reporting that her daughter, Genesis, got sick from food at an El Pollo Loco restaurant in Las Vegas. She declined to provide any further details.

San Jose police have joined the Las Vegas police fraud unit in the investigation into how a 11/2-inch-long fingertip ended up in Ayala's bowl of chili at the San Jose Wendy's on March 22. Ayala said Friday she had not filed a claim against Wendy's, and it was unclear whether she had filed suit against the franchise owner.

The company maintains that the finger did not enter the food chain in its ingredients. The employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers, and no suppliers of Wendy's ingredients have reported any hand or finger injuries, the company said.

On Thursday, Wendy's offered a $50,000 reward to anyone providing verifiable information leading to the positive identification of the origin of the finger.

Investigators would not say what they were looking for in the search of Ayala's house. Ken Bono, a family friend who lives at the home, said officers searched freezers, a picnic cooler in the back yard and the belongings of an aunt who used to live at the house.

San Jose police dismissed rumors that the finger might have belonged to Ayala's late aunt. However, investigators said they still were looking into the possibility that the missing finger was the result of an industrial accident or foul play.

"The simple fact of the matter is that the finger came from somebody. Where's that person at?" said Sgt. Nick Muyo, a spokesman for the San Jose Police Department.

Even Wendy's has gone digital...

JP

Yeah and where does this woman live.....LAS VEGAS....I told U all it's the land of every scam artist, huckster and con man in America if not the world.

We need Tougher Laws against psychos like this woman.

Basically...anyone in the US who has money or assets is a target for psychos like this. I say psycho, because it goes beyond "clever con artist" when it becomes a habitual situation.

This woman deserves 10+ years in the Pen + financial restitution to Wendys', IMO.

tabs ... check your fingers.

What fingers I licked em clean from all the buffetes I have attended.

the first step is admitting you have a problem...........:D

the problem is that the plates are too small...

Speaking through the front door of her Las Vegas (trailer) home

Bob's your uncle...

She was probably hoping they'd cash her out real quick and quiet.

Undoubtedly. No such luck, as she was arrested last night. Should be an entertaining news conference in San Jose today. Who gets the $100K?

Tim



April 22, 2005
Woman in Wendy's Finger Case Is Arrested
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:59 a.m. ET

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month has been arrested, the latest twist in a bizarre case about how the 1 1/2-inch finger tip ended up in a bowl of fast food.

Anna Ayala was taken into custody late Thursday at her Las Vegas home, police said.

Authorities would not provide details until a news conference Friday in San Jose, Calif. -- the city where Ayala claimed she bit down on the finger in a mouthful of her steamy stew.

Ayala's 18-year-old son, Guadalupe Reyes, said he had gone to the store around 9 p.m. when he got a phone call from a friend who was back at the Las Vegas home.

''We rushed back and she was already gone,'' Reyes said.

Reyes said he had no other details and was waiting to hear from his mother.

Ohio-based Wendy's International Inc. did not immediately return a call Friday.

Ayala's claim that she found the finger tip, complete with a well-manicured nail, on March 22 initially drew sympathy. But 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, and her story has become a late-night punch line.

Ayala hired a lawyer and filed a claim against the Wendy's franchise owner, Fresno-based JEM Management. But after police searched her home in Las Vegas and continued to question her family, she dropped the lawsuit threat, saying the whole situation was just too stressful.

''Lies, lies, lies, that's all I am hearing,'' Ayala said after police started questioning her. ''They should look at Wendy's. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?''

As it turns out, 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. But El Pollo Loco spokeswoman Julie Weeks said last week that the company reviewed Ayala's February 2004 claim and paid her nothing.

Earlier Thursday, 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.

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.

It's beacause of people like her and those damned lawyers that Chili prices are so high.

Dave can keep resting in peace.

dumbass. she should have hid a mouse or something. a missing finger, has a owner out there going "ouch, my effing finger!" dumbass.

Anyone know why they arrested her?

I read Grand Larceny.

Give her the finger

I think they fingered her for the crime...

I still wish she'd picked KFC as her target...

Then you'd flip her the bird - !

finger lick'n good

If I found that in my chili, I wouldn't think twice. I wonder how many things we eat that aren't intended to be ...once saw a kid try to eat a live muddpuppy...another thread...

I wonder how much wendy's is going to lose due to people not buying chili. I, for one, am probably not going to eat it (not that I ever have before). Still, wasn't it a pretty popular side at Wendy's?

MikeCT: 5:30 AM in Ct right now - either your coming back froma good night or starting early for a sunday run - either way, Wendys open?

haha, I wish. I'm writing a paper for class.

hear ya - pulled a few this week - last edits for May issue of Mav PCA Slipstream and a reliability proposal for Frito Lay has messed with my internal clock - and I thought the all-nighters ended in college. The kids jumping in bed with us at 2 and 4 this AM didn't help.

the worst part is I'm not sure when I'll be able to sleep this week.

When I first heard of the arrest I thought it meant they had determined the identity of the finger donor.

I find myself even more curious about where the finger came from as this mystery drags on.

I heard that sales were down 20%-50% at various locations.