Cops: Pizza Worker Tampered With Shredded Cheesehttp://www.newser.com/story/260299/cops-pizza-worker-tampered-with-shredded-cheese.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_crime_syn
And to think people complain about Domino’s.
So how did it taste? It might have been an improvement!
$100,000 bond.
The guy is 59 and will likely get 10 years or more for the crime. Moron.
Just one question: “Why”? Seriously, I really hope they get some insight into motive.
He was a cook?
He’s an asshole who wanted to get back at the owner. By making their customers sick and damaging the business. Nevermind that it may have killed people and made him a murderer.
Where did you get that info? The two linked articles say only that
Out of chemistry curiosity, how would the baking heat of the oven affect rat poison?
Likely hypothesis. Does it seem unlikely to you?
A bit, yes. Especially given the information available. But maybe this is where you live and you read a news report we haven’t seen or something, so I thought I’d ask.
Need answer fast?
In 15 minutes or less?
well…
Most rat poison is one or more 4-hydroxycoumarins, with the simplest example being warfarin. Heating in an oven in atmosphere for a bit might degrade it a bit, but I sure wouldn’t bet my life on it. I don’t see an obvious degradation pathway. Warfarin melts at about 322 F, so it’d probably mix with the ingredients fairly well.
The thing is, even though a poisoned pizza didn’t go out, the business still probably will suffer.
On a tangent, I was once helping write a “Finish the western” story on these boards. I planned to have a bad guy murder one of his henchmen by ODing him on laudanum. So I called up my sister the pharmacist and asked how much it would take to kill an adult man of average size. In a rather hushed tone she asked me "Why do you need to know?"
Their motto is “It’s Pizza with an Attitude.” That’s some attitude.
In another article, the owner mentioned throwing out over a thousand pounds of ingredients that this person had access to.
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Gee whiz, I wonder why some businesses are hesitant to hire convicted felons. :dubious: Most aren’t dangerous to the community, at least not in this way, but yeah, some are.
Whether the poison would have degraded in the oven would depend on what it was, how much was used, if it was on the surface or mixed in, etc.
Back in my pizza-making days, we got our mozzarella in big blocks and shredded it with a mixer attachment. One day, someone used the wrong plate, and another employee was referring to it as “the bad cheese” in front of customers, and we had to explain to them that the pizza cheese wasn’t “bad”, just shredded the wrong way.
Hope you didn’t call her at work. i.e., “All calls may be monitored for quality and training purposes…”