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Search continues in Wendy's finger case
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 3/24/05 | BRIAN SKOLOFF

Posted on 03/24/2005 7:08:03 PM PST by XR7

SEARCH CONTINUES - A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit. The incident occurred Tuesday night at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant and left the customer ill and distraught, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Health Department.

"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."

Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant that supplies the company.

"All of our employees have ten digits," said Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio. He said there have been no reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of injuries at any supplier of chili ingredients to Wendy's.

"By law, you can't hide that sort of stuff," Lynch said. "All of our chili suppliers report no accidents."

Investigators seized the remaining chili and closed the restaurant for a few hours late Tuesday.

Health officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 1/2 inches long.
They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

Alexiou said the woman, who asked officials not to identify her, is at minimal risk of contracting illnesses from the finger.

"It's an extremely low chance because the chili was cooked at a very high temperature that would have killed anything in the finger," Alexiou said. Still, she said health officials would ask the woman's doctor to test her blood "to make sure nothing got passed to her."



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To: RichInOC
"WHERRRRRE'S THE BEEF?"

Nah, ain't it "Finger lick'in good!"

41 posted on 03/24/2005 7:40:37 PM PST by roadcat
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To: roadcat

LOL...wrong place, though.


42 posted on 03/24/2005 7:41:25 PM PST by RichInOC (Larry Flynt Needs A Little KFC.)
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To: Gumption

Have you counted them lately?.........


43 posted on 03/24/2005 7:41:28 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("Out of the Bat-Cave and through the woods, to PoorMuttly's house we go"-Shakespeare, me pretty sure)
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To: XR7
They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

I'd take a bit of this finger too!

44 posted on 03/24/2005 7:41:49 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: armymarinemom

LOL, boy does that picture bring back Freeper memories!


46 posted on 03/24/2005 7:43:50 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Arkinsaw

I was just mentioning this story to my husband and wondering how someone out there in contact with Wendy's chili could lose a finger and not report it. He theorized that perhaps an accident happened to an illegal immigrant worker at one of Wendy's food supplying plants, thus the reluctance to report the injury to the authorities.


49 posted on 03/24/2005 7:49:30 PM PST by sassbox
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To: XR7
Does anybody remember this toy from the 1960's? SIX-FINGER!

How can anybody say no to a finger that fires a fragmentation bomb! Maybe this was in the Chili!


50 posted on 03/24/2005 7:49:31 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Gumption
When you point at someone else, you've got three two fingers pointed right back at you.
51 posted on 03/24/2005 7:50:54 PM PST by scott7278 ("Please disperse...there is nothing to see here.")
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To: Mount Athos
"Perhaps I'm out of line for even considering the possibility, but I can't help but wonder if the woman somehow aquired the finger and planted it herself, with the aim of winning million dollar+ judgement in court."

You're not the only one who has wondered. I'm not making any accusations against the woman, but it is a possibility. Another possibility, again I'm not saying that this did happen, maybe some local competing restaurant hired someone to plant the finger and then subsequently discover the finger to make Wendy's look bad.
52 posted on 03/24/2005 7:52:11 PM PST by dbehsman (NRA Life member and loving every minute of it!)
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To: XR7
They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

Has anybody checked Kerry/Edwards?

53 posted on 03/24/2005 7:52:20 PM PST by scott7278 ("Please disperse...there is nothing to see here.")
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To: XR7

Well look at the bright side. At least it wasn't any added Carb's in that chili.

Trendy Wendy's.


54 posted on 03/24/2005 7:58:37 PM PST by Pompah (Oh Yeah Babe.)
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To: XR7

Don't get out of joint, everyone. They're just testing a new item on the menu: "Chili con pinkie". They still have a few wrinkles to get out of it, but all signs point to a double digit increase in sales.

There will be a new bar set for what it takes to make employee of the month, though.


56 posted on 03/24/2005 7:58:57 PM PST by Rocky
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To: cmsgop

mmmmmmmm!,

Chicken McHeads. They used to be good! LOL


Regards


57 posted on 03/24/2005 8:05:39 PM PST by headstamp
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To: Lockbar

http://www.hottrix.com/html/FingerUp.shtml


58 posted on 03/24/2005 8:07:35 PM PST by Mercat (smeeeeee)
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To: cmsgop

"( Don't Forget to check out Bea Arthur in the "Menopause Monologues" coming on NBC this fall)"

That old gasbag went through the change so many years ago, they didn't even have a Perodic Table of the Elements!


59 posted on 03/24/2005 8:08:35 PM PST by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: XR7

Do they have a chapter of the Yakuza in San Jose?


60 posted on 03/24/2005 8:11:12 PM PST by Nachoman
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