Finger Found In Frozen Custard (Update - new owner keeps evidence in freezer) WARNING - PICS!

CBS ^ | 5/03/05

[Libloather]

Finger Found In Frozen Custard
WILMINGTON, N.C., May 3, 2005

The fingertip (Photo: NNS/WWAY)

Finger-finder Clarence Stowers (Photo: NNS/WWAY)

(CBS/AP) A man found part of a severed finger packed inside a pint of frozen custard he'd bought from a Kohl's Frozen Custard shop, and officials said it belonged to a worker injured in a food-processing machine accident there.

The customer, Clarence Stowers, said he put the finger in his mouth, thinking it was a piece of candy when he opened the pint at home, a Wilmington, N.C., television station reported Monday.

"I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat," Stowers told WWAY. Stowers said he spit the object out, and "I said, 'God, this ain't no nut!' So I came in here to the kitchen and rinsed it off with water and realized it was a human finger and I just started screaming."

Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions about Stowers' honesty have been raised.

The custard shop owner, Craig Thomas, told the TV station that the 23-year-old 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 said that as several employees tried to help the injured worker, a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped the chocolate custard 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.

At the same shop last summer, another employee lost part of a finger in one of the machines.

In March, a Las Vegas woman claimed she bit down on a 1½ 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 plans to sue and is keeping the right index fingertip in his freezer while he consults with attorneys.

[Libloather]

Stowers plans to sue and is keeping the right index fingertip in his freezer while he consults with attorneys.

Radio reports suggested the finger tip could still be reattached to it's place of origin.

If I heard it once, I've heard it a million times - revenge is a digit best served cold...

[davisfh]

Lends new meaning to the phrase "given the finger," doesn't
it?

[Teflonic]

Yeah this guy is an evil ba$tard. The case has already been documented so why won't he give back the finger to see if it can be reattached? If it was my finger I'd be breaking down his door to get it back.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Let's hope he can find a better hairdresser with his new " Found Finger Lotto Lawsuit"

[cmsgop]

It's like an Evil Willy Wonka Contest...........

[null and void]

*groan*

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

" I have the winning finger right here!"

[Deetes]

Another finger ? This is getting out of hand .

[blackdog]

My grandmother lost her thumb while running peaches thru a slicer for her family's candy/ice cream store chain. She was ten years old at the time and had the job of slicing the fruit for the flavor that week. She did it from eight to ten at night, after closing the store. Her uncle who owned the business refused to throw away the peaches and finished the batch of ice cream and charged her in her wages for the doctor's visit late at night to stich up her thumb at the first joint.

Nobody ever complained about getting the thumb. Maybe they thought it was an unripe peach?

[cmsgop]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[traderrob6]

Yes, but one was most likely a fraud, this one is for real. more here

[blackdog]

Ice cream for bulemics........So you don't have to put your finger down your own throat!

[uvular]

"God, this ain't no nut"-This should be a candidate for the quote of the week-lol!

[mountaineer]

Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions about Stowers' honesty have been raised.

But plenty of questions about his fashion sense have been raised, I'd wager.

[keat]

revenge is a digit best served cold...

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[midnightson]

You're on to something there, Blackie!

[midnightson]

I know this is the 'digital age', but come on.......

[GeekDejure]

"God, this ain't no nut"-This should be a candidate for the quote of the week-lol!
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Just wait... next week we'll probably see...

"Woman eating ice cream cone swallows human testicle" !!! ;-))

[blackdog]

Karen Carpenter Chunky Cherry......The debut flavor.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

So....if he didn't discover the finger until he put it in his mouth to suck off the ice cream....then how did they get a picture of the ice cream with the finger in it? I mean, they would have labeled the picture a "reenactment" or "reconstruction" to ensure total honesty, right?