Since this is local to me, I heard about this the day before it hit all the national news services.
1 - About 10 hours after the first reports, there were follow up news items that health authorities had confirmed it was indeed a finger. At this point, I’m willing to accept that there was something identified as a severed finger recovered from the scene.
2 - The question about fingerprints has been raised. Authorities have been quoted as saying that because the finger had been cooked, it may be difficult to recover prints from it, but they’ll try.
3 - Given the process for Wendy’s chili, there are at least 3 possibilities:
A - it was in the packaged stuff they add the meat to. Sounds most likely to me.
B - it’s a very nasty prank by one of the employees at that Wendy’s. It’s not a mishap involving one of the employees. The Mercury had a quote by the investigators that they checked, and all the employees were accounted for and had all 10 fingers.
C - it was planted by the customer to raise a lawsuit. Since the accounts all say the customer in question vomited, she at least put a serious effort into it, if this is the case. Also, accounts say the finger had obviously been cooked.
B and C leave us wondering where the hell they got the finger.
Well, if a dish has a finger in it, it can’t be called vegetarian anymore. That’s all. Just a simple joke. Not terribly funny, even.
on preview, I see I’m sarnath’d by revtim. Oh well. Jokes get funnier with each explanation, right? (Smilie added to reinforce that the preceding sentence was also a joke.)
If I were police, I’d be checking to see if any employee (or the customer) had any friends or relatives who worked at a hospital, morgue, or funeral home. Although I think you’re probably right that scenario A is the likeliest.
Damn Americans and their culture of entitlement!
That’s was a perfectly good finger, and she just let it go to waste!
What, some extra protein’s not good enough for your refined tastes?
Well, I used to like Wendy’s chilli. I liked it when it came with the big chunks of meat you had to fish around for. Now? Not so much. I guess it’s back to getting a side salad instead of fries for me. Chilli should not be a finger food.
I wonder if that particular Wendys is still selling chilli. No matter how much they’ve cleaned everything, I can’t imagine that anyone could enjoy their chilli while thinking about finding a finger in it.
Maybe they should just add Vienna sausages (those little cocktail weiners) to all their chilli so as to camouflage the occasional dismembered digit.
Yeah, but what are the odds of lightning striking twice in the same place? That Wendy’s is probably your best bet from now on if you want to enjoy finger-free food fun.
This statement from http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/4313153/detail.html really befuddles me. HOW would it be possible for an employee on shift at that time to have lost a finger, without ANYONE at the store knowing it. It must have hurt to have the finger cut off, by accident or on purpose, and I can’t imagine how it would have happened quietly…
This statement alone makes me suspect that it wasn’t Wendy’s fault, but that the someone else stuck the finger in the chili, if there was ever a finger in it in the first place.
I love the Tender Crisp Finger Cheddar Ranch
the fingers grow on trees
There’s tumbleweeds of fingernails
and hangnails paves the streets
That sucks, but it was the best I could do.
(Smilie added to reinforce that the preceding sentence was also a joke.)
