Posted on 04/22/2005 3:19:51 AM PDT by nuconvert
Wendy's Finger Finder Arrested
Friday, April 22, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO — The woman who claimed she found a well-manicured finger in her bowl of Wendy's (search) chili last month was arrested at her home Thursday night, police said.
Police in San Jose, Calif. — the site of the Wendy's in question — announced the arrest of Anna Ayala in Las Vegas (search). Police spokesman Enrique Garcia (search) said authorities would not give any details until a news conference Friday.
Ayala's 18-year-old son, Guadalupe Reyes (search), 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 house.
"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.
The arrest is the latest twist in the bizarre case about how the 11/2-inch finger tip ended up in a bowl of fast-food chili.
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Ugh..my bad..Freudian finger....sorry
Perhaps practical, but that's the attitude that increases and perpetuates this type of fraud...allowing all of us to pay more and support these lowlifes.
Euwwww!!!
"Please tell me she can be charged with a felony"
I don't know, let's ask Tame, JohnEboy and Jaxter
I'm no lawyer, but this sounds to me like product tampering, and I think that was made a felony after the Tylenol scare all those years back. People who pull this stuff should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Then we'd have a lot less of this expletive-deleted.
Oh, I am series. If Wendy's had just slipped this woman a few bucks within the first couple of days, all of this would have quietly gone away. Instead they stood on principle, and it would up costing them years worth of building in market share.
If I were running a chain of fast food franchises, there would be $1,000 in cash in an alarmed lockbox with one of those "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS" covers. Instruct the manager that when somebody comes up with something stupid like this, use the money in the box to buy the offending food item back, and then deny everything. It would be a heck of a lot cheaper than all the bad publicity.
Fine..... Fuzz Find Felonious Facts Following Frau's Finger Fraud
"Give a mouse a cookie, and he'll want a glass of milk".
Only if they're Oreo's or chocolate chip. ;~ )
LoL
Let us hope so. I am glad Wendy's did not pay her off. It is time that people and companies stood up to these scum and had them convicted and put in jail where they belong! Maybe that will put a stop to this.
What kind of person walks around with a severed finger waiting to drop it into a bowl of food?
No.. These people should be paraded all over the news for weeks and weeks, to make an example of them.
Punishment should be extremely harsh.. Minimum 20 Years In Prison, No Parole!
That is moronic.
You would have about a million people finding hairs and toe nails in there burgers who would score there $1000 jackpot for being a slimeball. How expensive do you think that would be for Wendy's?
Lay off the booze. Your argument is foolish.
As long as it's in the budget, though, everything should be fine.
Probably not your average citizen in Mayberry. (though maybe Ernest T. Bass)
Cop: We made an arrest today in this case, and the evidence points toward this woman.
Reporter: When digital come together, captain?
I think you tried a little too hard on that one.
Don't work that way. The finger story got fairly large exposure immediately. Her plan was to sue for big bucks which would've kept it in the news...just not to this degree perhaps.
Wendy's did what they had to do. In the long haul, most people will learn that this was a scam...rather than believing that body parts routinely turn up in Wendy's food offerings.
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