Posted on 05/03/2005 4:09:50 AM PDT by MississippiMasterpiece
WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside — a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.
Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger found in a package from Kohl's Frozen Custard.
State officials went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine.
Wilmington television station WWAY reported that Clarence Stowers found the finger in custard he purchased Sunday night.
Stowers, who did not immediately return calls Monday from The Associated Press, told the station: "I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'"
Stowers said he spit the object out, but still couldn't identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water — and "just started screaming."
Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer.
Shop owner Craig Thomas said the employee who lost the finger had dropped a bucket while working with a machine that dispenses the custard. He tried to catch the bucket when the accident occurred.
Thomas told WWAY that several employees tried to help the injured worker, and that a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped custard from the bucket into a pint before being told what had happened.
Joe Reardon of the state Agriculture Department's food and drug division said state officials closed the shop while the food-processing equipment involved was cleaned and sanitized.
In March, a Las Vegas woman claimed she bit down on a 1 1/2 inch-long finger fragment while dining with her family at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Calif.
Investigators have since called her claim a hoax and charged her last month with attempted grand theft related to millions in dollars of financial losses Wendy's has suffered since news of her claim broke.
Why?
WHY?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Why contact a lawyer? That's the thing to do nowadays. Pain and suffering and all that nonsense. Easy $$.
I think we are talking about sub-atomic IQ levels here. An employee loses part of a finger and they don't find it and they keep on using the stuff he was working on anyway. Sub-a-tom-ic IQ. Less than .0000000001 IQ point to share amongst employees and management alike.
Gee what a suprise. But I can only imagine the lawyers who called him the micro-second he found the finger. I`m so sick of these leeches, I mean so what, you find a finger, it was a freggin` accident. The same thing happened to me years ago at a fast food place out in Virginia, I ordered a hamburger and when I opened it a cockroach climbed out so I had them get me another one. Big freggin` deal. I didn`t fall on the ground screaming like a pussy and have a lawyer lie for me saying "I am traumatized for life". All these people treat accidents like winning lottery tickets and I`m so sick of it. If someone intentionally tries to cause harm towards you that`s a different story, but the world ain`t perfect and if you can`t live with an accident then f**k ya pal, go live in a bubble.
I know that, you know that.....I just had to ask the rhetorical question in order to point out the fact that this man suffered no loss, but now wants to cash in. I suppose if he had chosen to do the right thing (not take advantage), he'd be labelled a sucker in this society at this time. We've come so far, eh?
This here rumor has got to stop!
How in tarnation could the owner allow the product to market knowing full well a finger tip had been lost, where did he think it would end up in Timbuktu?
Well, at least this time there's someone actually MISSING THE FINGER!!!
On our local Fox news (Norfolk, VA) the anchors were doing the tease at very beginning of the show when the footage of the finger just popped onto the screen. No warning, nothing. Pretty revolting. They were horrified, but they just kept looping the footage! One of the anchors looked like she was going to hurl right on the desk.
Ah, local news.
I'm sorry, hoss. I know youre ten times the man anyone else is, but if some yokel puts a finger in my pudding, hes going to pay for it. Especially these days with bio-hazards all over the place.
Stowers will very soon be the not-so-proud owner of Kohl's Frozen Custard
Now here is how to stuff a mouse into a beer bottle to get a free case of beer!
So now we are looking for a person missing TWO fingers?
Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer.......
Shazaaaaaammmm. He done hit the lottery!
Here's the kicker: Under the workers' compensation laws in many states, the worker who lost the finger will receive a lump sum payment of $2000 (or something like that), and the person who found the finger will rake in $200,000.
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