Death in cherry vat appears to have been accidental drowning

AP via woodtv.com ^ | July 16, 2005

[quantim]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. A woman found dead in a tank of cherries and brine at Peninsula Fruit Exchange apparently drowned. That's according to preliminary autopsy results on Jo Ann Mendoza.

The 38-year-old was found by co-workers in a large vat of cherries Tuesday evening after a babysitter told a company official that she had not picked up her two daughters.

Mendoza worked as a quality control inspector at the facility.

The medical examiner's report also says the death appears to have been accidental.

An acquaintance says Mendoza may have been testing the solution mix of the cherry processing vat at the time of the accident.

The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.

[GSlob]

In keeping with the tradition she should have picked the vat with malmsey wine.

[BenLurkin]

Union dispute?

[Quick Shot]

It's the pits.

[injin]

what a sweet way to go

[Cougar66]

Paul Begala: They will use cherries to do it.

[OSHA]

Life is not a bowl vat of cherries.

[quantim]

I worked in a Traverse City pie factory decades ago while going to college there. Those vats are large. I don't know about a union dispute but if she drowned, who held her under? Something suspicious here.

[AlexW]

"what a sweet way to go"

Nuts...you beat me to it :P

I feel sorry for the poor lady, but I trust they threw out
the batch.

[Armigerous]

Unfortunately that reference to the Duke of Clarence will be lost on most people

[When do we get liberated?]

Yeah, I would hate to find a dead 38 yr old woman in my hot fudge sundae....

[bannie]

(raises her hand)

[SIDENET]

Bing!

[Armigerous]

If you recognize the reference then you are the exception that proves the rule

[GSlob]

"...will be lost on most peoiple..."
Serves them right to read more history. They will learn much that is both useful and interesting, like, for example, the fact that Peter the Great was called "the Great" because of the great size of his peter (eight Swedish matches in length, whatever the length of a single Swedish match was at the time). This will fill them with envy and desire for emulation.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, it was lost on me, the quintessentially average man. However, http://www.britannia.com/bios/lords/geoclarence.html explains it and reveals that Clarence was the greatgreatgreat-somethingorother-uncle of my extremely non-average wife. Ah! How lucky to live in The Age of Information! And how lucky to have an extremely non-average wife! (If you play your cards right, you can have it all!)

[Armigerous]

Then you wife and I share a common Plantagenet ancestry

[Armigerous]

Then your wife and I share a common Plantagenet ancestry

[C2ShiningC]

LOL!

[Savage Beast]

Yes. Yes. I suppose you're cousins.