Runaway bride found in Wendy's chili.
"Cold feet" suggest she was placed there, not cooked.
Finger food seems to be catching on . . .
Man's refusal to return digit found in custard kills bid to reattach
Quote:Soon after Stowers found the finger in a mouthful of chocolate soft-serve he bought Sunday at Kohl's Frozen Custard in Wilmington, he put it in his freezer at home, taking it out only occasionally to show to television cameras.
He refused to give it to the shop's owner, and refused to give it to a doctor who was treating Fizer, who accidentally stuck his hand in a mixing machine and had his right index finger lopped off at the first knuckle.
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Even if Stowers decides to sue, an expert in medical law said the fingertip could easily have been returned while preserving the evidence.
"The man who lost the finger has the superior claim," said Paul Lombardo, who teaches at the University of Virginia's law school. "It's his finger and he might be able to use it."
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For Kohl's, Sunday's fingertip amputation was the second time in less than a year that a worker lost a finger on the same frozen custard machine.
cjhsa wrote:Runaway bride found in Wendy's chili.
"Cold feet" suggest she was placed there, not cooked.
"Finger print on finger said to resemble Baby Jesus. Bids on EBay soaring. Film at eleven."
This woman is a patty short of a "single". I hope she "fries".
Tailgate Blamed for Finger in Chili Claim
Sun May 15,10:05 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - The finger that a woman claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili was severed in the tailgate of a truck during a work accident, an employee of an asphalt company said.
Pat Hogue, an estimator with a Las Vegas asphalt maintenance company, told the San Francisco Chronicle for a story in Sunday's editions that a man he was working with lost the tip of his finger on a job five months ago.
Both men were working with James Plascencia, the husband of Anna Ayala ?- the Las Vegas woman who claimed she found the finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Hogue told the paper.
Authorities believe the injured man gave the finger to Plascencia. Ayala is accused of trying to shake down the fast-food giant with a bogus tainted-food claim.
"I saw it on the news. I didn't know the lady at first was married to that James guy until after he was arrested," Hogue said in a telephone interview from his home in North Las Vegas.
Hogue and investigators have refused to identify the man with the severed finger, but police have said he's cooperating with authorities.
Ayala, 39, is in jail on suspicion of attempted grand theft. She claimed she bit into the finger on March 22 and filed a claim against the restaurant chain shortly afterward. The publicity resulted in a major loss of business for Wendy's.
Ayala later withdrew her claim as she came under scrutiny and investigators found at least 13 cases in which she has filed claims in her name or her children's.
Plascencia, 43, is being held in a Las Vegas jail on unrelated charges. He is awaiting extradition to California.
San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis said a tipster led investigators to the Nevada man with the missing finger. Investigators have refused to say how the finger was preserved or transported from Las Vegas to San Jose.
Police said more arrests were possible.
These photos released by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department show Jamie Plascencia, left, and his wife Anna Ayala, right. On Friday, May 13, 2005, San Jose police announced that the finger that Ayala claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an acquaintance of her husband who lost it in an industrial accident in December. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Police Department, File)
