Whoaa! Thats like REALLY Far Out Man!
K... F... C... WHOA!
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.
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."
I'm screaming, too--with laughter!
Well said.
Yeah but it`s an accident, it wasn`t deliberate so what does whining to a jury accomplish? The only thing these lawsuits do is destroy jobs, companies, careers and make lawyers rich and for what? What does it accomplish? This lawsuit crap is totally abused today and allows capitalism to run under a tyranny of blood suckers who don`t want to work for a living. You could bust your butt for years to start a company and all it takes is one lawsuit over an accident and you could lose everything just like you lived under communism. They say this country is free, but it really isn`t. It`s run under a tyranny of lawyers. You could lose anything and everything at anytime, it doesn`t matter if you`re rich or poor. Look at the Bernard Goetz case. He was mugged by a bunch of punks in the 1980`s and he shot them to defend himself, and to this day he has to pay one of the muggers money every month thanks to a lawsuit, for the rest of his LIFE he has to do that! Imagine that, a guy threatens to shove a screwdriver in your throat, and you gotta pay HIM for the rest of your life.
"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."
(he was kind of a purty boy, won't he?)
be careful when you order a vanilla with "jimmy sprinkles"
One must aquire a taste for finger food. You know, like chocolate-covered roaches, pickled escargo, sushi ala mercury, etc.
Okay----I scrolled down and read everybody's response, and to my amazement, no one picked up on it.
The guy licked ice cream off what he thought was
a chunk of candy or fruit in:
Kohl's Frozen Custard
which has the same letters as:
K.F.C.
Do I have to remind you the motto is:
FINGER LICKIN' GOOD????!!!!
Yeah he started screaming I'M RICH I'M RICH I'M RICH I TELL YA
My thoughts exactly. There was also blood in God knows how many people's custard. That is plain sick! How could they allow that product to go out to market? They deserve to get sued for STUPIDITY!
Whoaa! Thats like REALLY Far Out Man!
K... F... C... WHOA!
There are a bunch of REAL MANLY idiots here on FR. I am not going to suck on anyones uncooked flesh and blood and be quiet about it. I would sue also.
Seems like, under the circumstances, one cockroach would have been enough for me.
Well, I think you're overstating your point a bit with this talk of communism, tyranny, etc. Tort reform is certainly something that should be near the level of importance of securing the border and guaranteeing national security but at the same time if your dog damages my property, I should have recourse avaliable. same thing here, except that it was the negligence (how ever well explained) of the company that allowed the guy to get a tasty treat. You make it too easy to be negligent, it will become rife, and too strict regulations can sink any small buisiness.
I agree lawyers are ruining this country. We should get rid of all of them.
It was an accident when he cut off his finger. Everything else was not an accident.
I take it that's you on the right, holding the toad you
just licked. Actually, you look like my nephew Tony, a drummer who lives in New Orleans.
What me? I have never licked a toad in my life. I swear.
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