Posted on 03/06/2015 3:51:06 PM PST by rickmichaels
A Nova Scotia university student said she found a dead rodent inside a pillow she bought from Walmart.
Erin Pettipas, a student at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, said she'd been sleeping with her arm around the body pillow every night for eight months until she noticed a "gross smell" earlier this week.
Then she felt "something hard" inside. She couldn't find any tears in the seams, so she cut it open.
"When I seen the rodent fall out, I immediately jumped back and screamed, and all that was going through my head was 'OMG, I have been cuddling a dead rodent for months!'" she told QMI Agency in an e-mail.
"I suspect the rodent was shoved in the middle of the dense stuffing, which explains why I couldn't smell it until it made its way in between the pillow covering and the stuffing."
She tweeted a picture of the critter at Walmart, which is now following up with the manufacturer, she said.
I smell a rat.
I recently found a human child’s tooth in a can of Walmart coffee.
The danged Tooth Fairy did it.
LOL!
Was in there 8 months before she “smelled it”? Pffft...right. This doesn’t pass the smell test—pun intended.
This is a variant on the 1980s bloody band-aid in the pizza scam (updated in the 90s to a needle in the pizza).
Back in the day, insurers would pay $5K-$25K to make these go away. Now, not so much.
Pillow talk?
We have a cat who has left many a gift. Never had one crawl into a pillow.
I was thinking the same thing. 8 months for a small rodent to decompose to the point it stank? Nope.
The story smells fishy. I figure she is trying to set up a lawsuit against Walmart.
Three words... MADE IN CHINA
English major no doubt.....
I seen that too.
That’s nothing! I bit into an apple and found half a worm in there!
Ugh!
I was picking up dog toys (so many scattered every day you’d think we had several toddlers!) and when I reached for one, I noticed it had teeth. Our Penny caught a vole and brought it inside to be with the rest of her toys. I called my MIL to come get it out. She’s a sweet, old farm girl who ain’t sneered of nuthin!
Our dog killed a baby rabbit one day and ended up leaving it on our bed. My wife picked it up and carried it out, asking me when I bought the dog the new toy. You could hear her shrieks several houses away when I told her what it was.
Thank you. That's exactly what I told my wife.
Some mom was probably rushing off to work in the morning and put the tooth into her pocket as she eased a dollar under her kid's pillow. Later, it slipped from her pocket while she was working on the production line.
I'd say it was at the bottom of the top third of the can. Seeing how I'd already consumed a third of the can, I just plucked it out and had a laugh with my wife about it.
She wasn't amused.
I wound up not even bringing it up to the store manager. I just tossed the tooth and let it be.
That makes sense.
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