How could this not be clearly illegal in some way? Do you lose custody over your body parts if they become accidently separated from you?
I hope the employee nails him good.
Daniel
Of all the clip joints in all the world, I had to walk into this one.
Well, in this instance, they became custardy.
Why the fuck didn’t someone forcibly get the finger off the asshole? What court is going to convict someone of trying to get a bodypart back to it’s owner so it can be attached?
Punnery aside, this is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
I hope the award has lots of digits.
I am now your biggest flan.
I’ve heard that this isn’t the first time that some employee lost some anatomy in that machine.
This possibility springs to mind: Brandon and the scooper knew about the dangerous machine, one of them knew Mr. Stowers, and the three of them conconted this scheme to get money from Kohl’s.
At the risk of jumping the gun, I’m going to have to say that this Stowers guy has to be one of the biggest fucking assholes in the history of the planet. I don’t say this very often, but this guy is a fucking waste of human life. A worthless human being.
If that were the case, I would expect part of the conspiracy to involve Mr. Stowers returning the finger to Brandon.
But then, I remember being 23, and my get-rich-quick schemes then weren’t all that brilliant in retrospect.
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I’m still not ready to hop on this bandwagon.
I’m trying to look at it from Stower’s viewpoint. He goes to the stand to by a treat. Gets the treat handed to him, goes home, and discovers a finger in the food. At this point he has to be outraged as well as sick over what he sees.
He goes back to the stand and confronts the (owner? manager?, worker) and is told that they want the finger back because its can be reattached to the kid who lost it.
At this point he has to wonder if he’s being lied to and if the finger is going to be taken from him so that the stand could deny any involvment. He probably cannot imagine any scenario where someone handing him a product is unaware that their co-worker lost a finger. He must assume that the act was done with malice.
Did the ka-ching factor kick in or was he so outraged that he couldn’t think straight?
The custard was frozen, is it possible that the guy who lost the finger had very cold hands at the time of the loss, and maybe wouldn’t notice and scream imediately?
** BubbaDog** Then Stower takes the finger to the hospital himself or he takes a picture of it or lifts a print or he takes to the police station. He had lots of options to protect himself. Instead he keeps it, knowing that doing so, will maim.
He was able to threaten to call a lawyer, to call the TV, to be ‘cagey’ as to where the finger was…sounds like he was thinking straight to me.
Presumably the custard will still be (and those of you with snacks in hand you will forgive the meal-unsafe imagery, because by this point in the thread you deserve what you get) at least partly saturated with human blood. It seems quite reasonable to retrieve and return the severed digit but retain the sanguinated sweetness for evidentiary reasons. What’s the shop going to do? “We can’t be fingered for the finger, but okay yeah we bled into the food, so do your worst, Mr. Attorney Getting Person.”
(In keeping with the pun fest: The movie version of this incident should be titled Cut, Print.)
As a side note, the story I read said that this is the second time somebody’s lost a finger in the same machine. Sounds like a freakin’ Stephen King story. Eventually the custard machine will be chasing people down the street, grinding up small dogs, maybe even running for Congress.
Has anyone else seen videoclips of Stower? The guy comes off as distinctly odd in the clips I’ve seen him in.
My mother used to demo frozen pizza in grocery stores. One day she cut off the tip of one of her fingers and it ended up on a slice of demo pizza. It was subsequently eaten, apparently unnoticed, or perhaps noticed but accepted (though the number of zombie clientele at that store was vanishingly small). No lawsuits or international media attention were ever showered upon that incident.
“just desserts” – how funny!
I just had to point that out.
It still makes no sense to me. If the drive-through employee was close enough to the action to get the bucket, then the drive-through employee must have been close enough to the action to glean what all the hullabaloo was about.
But then, I don’t even know what frozen custard is, much less how a stand is set up.