Whatever you do…DO NOT EAT THE CHILI
by Bobosan on Mar.25, 2005, under Main
More weird news!
Woman finds human finger in bowl of Wendy's chili
March 25, 2005
San Jose, Calif. — Santa Clara County health officials confirmed Wednesday that a woman eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant bit into a human finger. Authorities will use a fingerprint database to determine who lost the digit.
It was about an inch-and-a-half, with a longish, nicely groomed nail.
And while it gave the woman — Anna Ayala, 39, Las Vegas — a bad case of the willies, it likely caused no physical illness, officials said.
It was her first visit to a Wendy's.
Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food-processing plant that supplies the company.
Wendy's spokesman Bob Bertini said never in the fast-food chain's 35 years has a body part showed up in the food.
Teen who 'divorced' dad adopted by his guardians
Canton, Mass. — A teen who won a groundbreaking legal battle last summer to “divorce” his killer father walked out of court Thursday with new adoptive parents.
“I don't think I'll ever be over it,” Patrick Holland said of his mother's 1998 slaying by his father, “but it's a step forward. It's about the biggest step you can take at one time.”
Patrick, 15, was adopted by Ron and Rita Lazisky; the pair have been his guardians and were close friends of the teen's mother.
The Laziskys, of Sandown, N.H., have cared for Patrick since shortly after Daniel Holland fatally shot Liz Holland at the family's Quincy, Mass., home. Then 8, Patrick found his mother's body the following morning. Daniel Holland is serving life in prison without parole.
9 children now stricken after visiting petting zoos
Orlando, Fla. — Two more children have come down with life-threatening kidney infections after visiting petting zoos at fairs, bringing the total hospitalized in central Florida to nine, officials said Thursday.
There were fears the number of children suffering from the rare disease — hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS — would continue to grow.
Beyond those hospitalized, two children and an adult showing symptoms of HUS were under observation, said Dr. Mehul Dixit, who is treating some of the children at Florida Hospital Orlando.
Symptoms include bloody diarrhea, lethargy, anemia and decreased urine output.
The hospitalized children all touched animals recently at area fairs, including the Central Florida Fair in Orlando and the Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City. They might have been exposed to the E. coli bacteria through animals' feces, officials said.