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Search continues in Wendy's finger case
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 3/24/05 | BRIAN SKOLOFF

Posted on 03/24/2005 7:08:03 PM PST by XR7

SEARCH CONTINUES - A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit. The incident occurred Tuesday night at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant and left the customer ill and distraught, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Health Department.

"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."

Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant that supplies the company.

"All of our employees have ten digits," said Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio. He said there have been no reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of injuries at any supplier of chili ingredients to Wendy's.

"By law, you can't hide that sort of stuff," Lynch said. "All of our chili suppliers report no accidents."

Investigators seized the remaining chili and closed the restaurant for a few hours late Tuesday.

Health officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 1/2 inches long.
They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

Alexiou said the woman, who asked officials not to identify her, is at minimal risk of contracting illnesses from the finger.

"It's an extremely low chance because the chili was cooked at a very high temperature that would have killed anything in the finger," Alexiou said. Still, she said health officials would ask the woman's doctor to test her blood "to make sure nothing got passed to her."



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To: MisterRepublican

Ummmm, this was in San Jose, a few blocks from my house...


21 posted on 03/24/2005 7:22:23 PM PST by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: XR7

I lost a finger tip in a snowblower accident many years ago, and never found it... could this be it ???????


22 posted on 03/24/2005 7:23:01 PM PST by dfwddr
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To: tai-pan

They're Gollum gnashing good, Smeagol smacking snacks.


23 posted on 03/24/2005 7:23:14 PM PST by kcar (theUNsucks.com)
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To: XR7

Hello, my name is Enrico Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.


24 posted on 03/24/2005 7:23:21 PM PST by Mercat (smeeeeee)
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To: Hank Rearden

WENDY's finger


25 posted on 03/24/2005 7:23:37 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (An agnostic against abortion and "assisted suicide" based on hearsay)
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To: XR7

AIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!


26 posted on 03/24/2005 7:24:07 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (An agnostic against abortion and "assisted suicide" based on hearsay)
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To: cmsgop

I remember that, what, 4 years ago? I haven't eaten at Mickey Dee's since.


27 posted on 03/24/2005 7:25:22 PM PST by justt bloomin
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To: Darkwolf377
WENDY's finger

Well, ok then. As long as it's a for-sure finger. You had my mind reeling with the MJ connection.

28 posted on 03/24/2005 7:26:08 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: PoorMuttly

well I hope they nail the knucklehead who mitted out this awful deed


29 posted on 03/24/2005 7:27:44 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Mount Athos
Perhaps I'm out of line for even considering the possibility, but I can't help but wonder if the woman somehow aquired the finger and planted it herself, with the aim of winning million dollar+ judgement in court.

Good point. After all, she had those right at hand.

Now, a fried chicken head - that's much harder to acquire, generally. That could be a fake too, I 'spect.

30 posted on 03/24/2005 7:28:09 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Mercat
LOL


31 posted on 03/24/2005 7:28:49 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: XR7

"Here at Wendy's, there's a little bit of Wendy in everything we do!"


32 posted on 03/24/2005 7:28:57 PM PST by reg45
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To: XR7
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33 posted on 03/24/2005 7:30:19 PM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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To: XR7

And i was just reading last week that business at Wendy's has been poor. I doubt this will help.


34 posted on 03/24/2005 7:33:22 PM PST by mowowie
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To: reg45

It's the "Special" barbeque sauce that matters afetr all.


35 posted on 03/24/2005 7:33:59 PM PST by kcar (Frodo of the nine fingers)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

Perhaps someone will finger the culprit.

Things point in that direction.

I will never order chicken fingers again.


36 posted on 03/24/2005 7:34:22 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("Out of the Bat-Cave and through the woods, to PoorMuttly's house we go"-Shakespeare, me pretty sure)
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To: XR7

"WHERRRRRE'S THE BEEF?"


37 posted on 03/24/2005 7:35:03 PM PST by RichInOC (Clara Peller, R.I.P.)
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To: XR7

The modern world; even the chili is digital.


38 posted on 03/24/2005 7:37:44 PM PST by Texas dog
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

It just seemed that we might be looking for a formerly six fingered man, in drag. I dunno.


39 posted on 03/24/2005 7:38:35 PM PST by Mercat (smeeeeee)
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To: PoorMuttly

Something is terribly wrong with this whole story but I just can't put my finger on it.


40 posted on 03/24/2005 7:39:37 PM PST by Gumption
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