Posted on 07/22/2009 6:39:52 PM PDT by South40
Mission Viejo man files lawsuit saying he found prophylactic in his French onion soup.
A Mission Viejo man is seeking unspecified damages, claiming that he chewed into a condom in his French onion soup.
The man, who has sued in Orange County Superior Court, contends Claim Jumper – and any vendor associated in making the soup – was negligent. The company today issued a statement denying the validity of the man's allegations.
Claim Jumper, which has more 46 locations nationwide, is based in Irvine.
According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Zdenek Philip Hodousek, 50, was eating at a Mission Viejo Claim Jumper at Santa Margarita and Marguerite parkways with his family April 12, Easter Sunday.
A server brought Hodousek's soup, which he began to eat.
"Suddenly he felt what he believed was tough cheese on one side of his mouth," the suit reads. "When he could not chew it into pieces, (Hodousek) commented to his family that it felt like rubber. He spit it out, spooned it onto a napkin, at which time his wife said 'Oh my God, it's a condom.''"
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Sounds like he got the French Onion soup,, good stuff, I would be very suspicious of his claim.
If anything is sue-worthy, that would be it.
Another Wendy’s scam?
I ate there once, at the Pasadena location. The food was GREAT, I thought. I wonder if the condem supposedly found was new, or......?
Yep. I am getting a sick stomach just reading it.
Reminds me of the old story about the guys who were getting ready in the locker room for a game of tennis. When one of the took off his trousers his friend noticed he was wearing ladies panties. He asked, “Fred, when did you start wearing ladies undies?” Fred replied, “When my wife found them in the glove box!”
My guess is the guy just needed a place to dispose of something in a hurry!
Stuff like this is why I can hardly stand to eat out anymore. ‘Course, who knows what’s in half the food we buy at the grocery store?
The article said the condom was tested and female DNA was found. That doesn't sound new to me.
From the comments section below the article:
A tied-up condom would undoubtedly have had some air trapped in it which would have expanded with heat and would be floating on the top. And, how does one get a whole knotted condom in ones mouth with a soup spoon without seeing it. Send this [guy] to prison for fraud.
I tend to agree that this guy’s trying to pull a scam. Someone needs to check his finances. If he’s in trouble and can’t pay his bills it would totally be obvious that he’s looking for a payoff to bail himself out of debt.
I thought all restaurants served condom-ments or am I mistaken?
So he gets a condom and gets all grossed out, and then he thinks, hey that wasn’t so bad, I’ll make some money off of it. But really, I don’t see how anyone could eat a bowl of soup with a spoon and not see something as big as a condom in it. If the condom had been used, it would be unfurled, as it were, to an average size of about 5.2” or so. Of course, if I had used it, well... but I digress. That would hardly fit in a spoon. Even an unused condom wouldn’t just fit in a spoon, it would be about the size of a quarter at least.
In this case, I would ask for a DNA analysis of said condom before proceeding.
I usually wouldn’t side with anyone who proclaims that it is OK to take gold out of someone else’s gold mine, and for that reason, I won’t buy their food or eat their frozen products. That would be like eating at a restaurant named Car Jackers or Home Invasion Robbers.
That's what immune systems are for. We all consume microscopic bits of poop, insects, organs and other unappetizing things. I the vast majority of cases it does no harm. Worrying about it is a waste of precious life.
Andrew Dice Clay line beckons....”Gimme the Goo!”
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the new, Europe-friendly, hopey/changey America.
Ya never know.
I imagine the item will be thoroughly examined.
The wife knew what it was right away.
I’m not buying it. How could you not see a condom in a soup spoon of onion soup?
Only if he was legally blind.
Besides, wouldn't it float? And isn't it very hard to imagine how it could make it all the way from the bowl to his mouth on a spoon without being noticed? And doesn't this just seem like the foreign object a really stupid person would choose to pull something like this? I think the guy must not have noticed how well the finger in the chili at Wendy's worked out for that lady.
“”Suddenly he felt what he believed was tough cheese on one side of his mouth,””
Is that tough cheese in your mouth, or are you just happy to see me?
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