Bizarre Twist In Case Of Finger Found In Wendy's Chili<br>(dead aunt's finger?)

ABC ^ | 4/7/05 | ABC

[Defiant]

Police didn't do any DNA checks on the finger and any employees at the store? How stupid is that??

If the employees had all their fingers, why would the police need to do a dna test on them?

[jocon307]

"...Wendy's... is my favorite fast-food place. Plus, I loved Dave, the deceased founder, he promoted adoption along with many other good causes."

I feel EXACTLY the same way. If this is proved a hoax it will be a big relief to me.

[Osage Orange]

Wow....you knew!!

Tell me the five greatest percentage movers on the Nasdaq..for the rest of the year.

Thanks---

[smith288]

I was scratching my head over this because I used to work at Wendy's and I never understood how a finger could get into the chili.

Most former Wendy's employees know that the Chili is yesterdays overcooked hamburgers and then mashed up with the other stuff added into it. If someone lost a finger while mashing up the chili, we'd know about it.

I started to believe this had to be either a hoax or a finger somehow got mixed into the ingredients packaging...

Looks like the woman is in for the pokey if she planted it.

[doc30]

Police didn't do any DNA checks on the finger and any employees at the store? How stupid is that??

why bother with expensive DNA tests when all you had to do was look and see who was missing a finger. They followed the meat supply chain and no one was missing a finger. Logically, the finger was likely planted so they began investigating the victim.

[smith288]

That's partially true but not exact. Wendy's hb patties are square because the rounded edges are trimmed off at the processing plant and those edges are used for the chili.

Umm...not where I worked. I believe the edges are trimmed and combined to make another patty at the processing plant. Otherwise, who is browning the meat you claim is available to make the chili?

Wendy's chili is made by the yesterdays over cooked meat and placed into a bin and frozen overnight to be turned into the next day's chili.

[Tolkien]

I guess her aunt gave her the finger once too often!!

[doc30]

I wonder if the woman was related to Scott Tenorman and the chili he was served by Eric Cartman?

[N8VTXNinWV]

LOL! I was just thinking to myself "I wonder when they'll have this story in an episode of CSI" which, btw, is one of my favorite shows.... :o)

[N8VTXNinWV]

ROTFL! You're kidding me?? I guess the six fingered man cut one off! lol! (oh, my sides!)

[MD_Willington_1976]

[KneelBeforeZod]

some FReepers thought it was legit. Probably won't be on these threads though

[ScuzzyTerminator]

Better than if it was her live aunt.

I'd give up one of mine for half of what she'd get if this could actually work. But who would think it could?

[Petruchio]

For example from the Wal-Mart Litigation Project litigation website: Where you might see a store that offers lower prices than its competition, this site sees a goldmine: "Imagine that you are a Wal-Mart customer. You first park your car and walk through the parking lot, onto the sidewalk, and through the front doors. Looking at the listing of cases you can see there have been lawsuits involving [snip]

Well Your Honor, it happened like this . . .

I was minding my own business, shopping for cheap kitchen gadgets, when all of the sudden this BIG Yellow Dot flys past me hitting Price signs with a hammer. I was severely cut from the sharp edges of the shattered prices that rained down on me . . .

[Mr. K]

yeah, I know

but it is so nice to be right once in a while

[soundandvision]

some FReepers thought it was legit. Probably won't be on these threads though

I was one of them. My initial reaction was that it would be impossible to fabricate such a story like the usual condom or toe nail in the food scam.

I thought that she would have to have a buddy working at the morgue to pull this off and she would have to know that investigators would figure that out.

Well, I must admit that I feel a bit foolish for falling for this. As more and more details have emerged about this case (this lady has a sue happy past) the fact that she doesn't seem forthcoming and Wendy's does...well I admit I was wrong on this one.

Did you hear the latest? Wendy's is offering $50k for info leading to closure of the case, etc.

[KneelBeforeZod]

when it came out that the finger was raw...that made me wonder. Actually that convinced me it was a scam...I was thinking that it *probably* was a scam at first.

[ConservativeDude]

The sick thing about this is that at some point something like these thoughts had to go through her head:

"I'm going to cut off my aunt's finger...put it in my pocket...then I'm going to go to Wendy's, drop it in my chili, then "find" it...then gag...then file and lawsuit...that is going to make me rich! Yeah! I'm gonna do it!"

What a sicko.

[O Neill]

The chili-chomping woman's husband is "Jaime Plascencia" (her name is "Anaya" or "Ayala"). Mr. Plascencia is in custody in Nevada, charged with various crimes including identity theft & official document shenanigans.

Authorities are not releasing the name of Mr. Plascencia's fingerless amigo, who reportedly lost his finger late last year in an "industrial accident".

Could it be that the industrial accident victim is actually Sen. Barbara Boxer's undocumented gardener, who got his finger caught by a weed-eater while trimming Sen Boxer's bougainvillea?

Developing....

[Vaquero]

"Let me ask you this: Did you ever eat a hamburger and there's a hard thing in it? It's like a toenail. You know it's not part of the hamburger, but you separate the meat and the lettuce and the pickle all on one side of your mouth and finally on your tongue you get this little thing. And it's like a bone...but it's not a bone. I keep asking myself, Roseanne Roseannadanna, if they can make a coffee I like without caffeine, how come they can't make a hamburger I like with no toenails?" You know its always something....if its not one thing its another.