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Finger in Wendy's chili may be linked to leopard attack
WTSP channel 10 Tampa Bay ^ | 4/13/2005

Posted on 04/13/2005 12:12:09 PM PDT by KarlInOhio

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Police in California say they're checking out a possible lead in the case involving an allegedly contaminated bowl of Wendy's chili.

San Jose police are investigating the case of a woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack. The woman, who has several exotic animals, reportedly got the finger back in a bag of ice, after doctors couldn’t re-attach it. She lives in a town about 45 miles north of Las Vegas.

A month after that attack, a Las Vegas woman reported biting into a human finger while eating a bowl of Wendy’s chili. Today, the woman’s lawyer confirmed that she’s decided not to sue.

That word comes a day after an animal sanctuary employee called a Wendy’s hotline to suggest the finger might be linked to the February leopard attack.

Wendy’s has maintained the finger allegedly found in the chili had not been cooked, and that it didn’t enter the supply chain as part of its ingredients.


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KEYWORDS: chili; finger; leopard; wendys
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To: Fitzcarraldo


41 posted on 04/13/2005 12:29:51 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: kennedy6979
I guess they finally fingered her!

good one!

42 posted on 04/13/2005 12:30:16 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: WL-law
I suspect, if the link to the leopard attack is validated, that the con-artist complaintant had some link to the hospital maintenance department and arranged to get ahold of some medical waste.

Very plausible. This woman has a history of making claims. Could it be she saw the finger and concocted this little scheme?

43 posted on 04/13/2005 12:31:47 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: KarlInOhio

What I want to know is why the woman who lost the finger wanted it back after they couldn't reattach it. What was she going to do with it, have it stuffed and mounted?

LQ


44 posted on 04/13/2005 12:32:09 PM PDT by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: OXENinFLA

HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAA-HAAAA, made you eat your parents!


45 posted on 04/13/2005 12:32:51 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Arthur Carlson: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.")
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To: KarlInOhio
I have no idea how they linked this finger to the Leopard attack.

Maybe she has been keeping the finger in her freezer and it's missing. Maybe the huckster stole it. Maybe she bought the finger on Ebay... Who knows. It's better than the first allegation that the finger belonged to the huckster's own dead aunt.

46 posted on 04/13/2005 12:32:59 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: kingattax

Can I get me a leopard hunting license here?


47 posted on 04/13/2005 12:34:32 PM PDT by NormB (Yes, but watch your cookies!!)
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To: garyhope
Wouldn't that be a Coney Island?
48 posted on 04/13/2005 12:34:54 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Did you click the pics?


49 posted on 04/13/2005 12:35:02 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: KarlInOhio
The woman, who has several exotic animals, reportedly got the finger back in a bag of ice, after doctors couldn’t re-attach it.

Mechanics do the same in my state with left over car parts.

50 posted on 04/13/2005 12:37:30 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: KarlInOhio

I like Wendy's chilli - Thanks Dave!


51 posted on 04/13/2005 12:39:41 PM PDT by sandydipper (Less government is best government!)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
OMG.....Wendy's chili is....PEOPLE!

Soylent green chilli.
52 posted on 04/13/2005 12:39:54 PM PDT by Beckwith (I knew Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't no Indian either . . .)
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To: OXENinFLA

Not yet. I didn't notice they were linked until after I posted. :-)


53 posted on 04/13/2005 12:40:25 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Arthur Carlson: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.")
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To: Aquinasfan
I have no idea how they linked this finger to the Leopard attack.
They're both fingers, right? I rest my case.

But, on the other hand...

56 posted on 04/13/2005 12:43:07 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It is a waste of time and it annoys the pig.' Robert Heinlein)
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To: KarlInOhio

Something about this story bugs me, but I can't quite put my finger on it.


57 posted on 04/13/2005 12:43:42 PM PDT by LibWrangler
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To: KarlInOhio
Finger in Wendy's chili may be linked to leopard attack

Wha...Wha...Whaaat? Evel Knievel couldn't make that leap.

58 posted on 04/13/2005 12:43:58 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (The auto-focus on my photographic memory is broken.)
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To: WL-law
. . . =
59 posted on 04/13/2005 12:44:44 PM PDT by kingattax
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