Posted on 01/20/2005 10:58:53 AM PST by Cagey
WEST NEW YORK - A Cliffside Park man has been charged with cutting his own mouth with a razor and stuffing his McDonald's chicken sandwich with staples and a paper clip in an apparent copycat attempt to cash in with a lawsuit against the company, officials said.
The incident follows a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Beatriz Bermeo of North Bergen against the same Bergenline Avenue McDonald's, in which she claims she ingested five needles that were inside her chicken sandwich.
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At about 2 p.m. Tuesday, West New York police arrested Jose Rodriguez, 48, and charged him with supplying a false report to law enforcement and tampering with or fabricating evidence, Capt. Robert Antolos said.
Police responding to a call of someone biting into a sandwich containing a sharp object arrived at the McDonald's to find Rodriguez bleeding from the mouth, Antolos said.
Rodriguez had created a scene in the restaurant, showing other customers and police the sandwich, which had staples and a paper clip protruding from it, Antolos said.
Rodriguez was taken to Palisade Medical Center while police began an investigation in which "evidence was recovered at the scene indicating that this new incident was nothing but a scam," Antolos said.
The investigation revealed that Rodriguez ordered a chicken sandwich and took it into the restroom, where he bit into it and spit the portion out into the garbage, Antolos said.
He then placed a row of staples and a bent paper clip into the middle of the sandwich and rewrapped it, Antolos said.
Finally, he took out a razor blade and used it to cut the inside of his mouth before discarding the blade in the garbage, Antolos said.
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This is where the DA can get the Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwhich.
F***ING RETARD !!!
And they know this how? They have cameras in the bathrooms now?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
He wasn't even smart enough to flush the damaging evidence..... People like this need to do about a year in the slammer.
Well, if you find the bite of sandwich and the razor blade in the trash....
Don't stop now...there's a crooked lawyer in here somewhere. Go for "conspiracy"--!
I'm pretty sure that McDonalds does not spend millions of dollars to put (illegal) cameras into their bathrooms. Just a hunch.
I cannot believe it, Fraud in Hudson County, who would've thunk it... -sarcasm
The lengths that people will go to to try and get that "free" money.
Which particular Jose Rodriguez would this be? There are several.
The Jose Rodriguez with the bloody mouth, would be my guess.
When your mother tells you to flush, you better listen.
So.........he wasn't just "refunding."
Hahahaha! Now you just reminded me of one of the famous lines from the film "Breaking Away" when Dave's dad begins phase one of his nervous breakdown and says........................... "Refund? REFUND!?"
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