"Chili-Finger Lady" Suing Wendy's Has A "History"

[Bark Bark Bark]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/08/wendy.finger.ap/index.html

Hoo boy. It was a funny, gross little story, invoking images of what might have been the final moments of Jimmy Hoffa, and endless gags involving the phrase "finger food."

It's also turning out to be fishier than anything you'll ever eat at Long John Silver's.

Anna Ayala, 39, who hired a San Jose, California, attorney to represent her in the Wendy's case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco Bay area, according to court records.

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Speaking through the front door of her Las Vegas home Friday, Ayala claimed police are out to get her and were unnecessarily rough as they executed a search warrant at her home on Wednesday.

"Lies, lies, lies, that's all I am hearing," she said. "They should look at Wendy's. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?"

Ayala acknowledged, however, that her family received a settlement for their medical expenses about a year ago after her daughter, Genesis, got sick from food at an El Pollo Loco restaurant in Las Vegas. She declined to provide any further details.

There more, of course, including the tale of a lawyer who supposedly quit on her because of her threats. But...Genesis? GENESIS?

I know, she may be completely truthful, and this may be an orchestrated campaign, even a conspiracy, to save Wendy's or something. But naming your daughter "Genesis" is like Michael Jackson inviting more kids to sleepovers: regardless of one's actual guilt or innocence, it just slaughters one's credibility.

DISCLAIMER: I have eaten at Wendy's. Sometimes it has made me ill.

[JI7]

1. i saw the lady on TV in local news

she does not come across well at all.

i have eaten at Wendy's also. i like their chili and fries the most, and the frosty also. i never felt sick from eating there either.

[ogradda]

2. Where the hell could someone get a finger?

I mean, it's not like something you can borrow from a friend or anything.:shrug:

[MADem]

3. Has she put in a new concrete patio of late?

Is the lawyer she threatened still around?

Piece of work, that one!

[JI7]

4. there was someone in her family that died recently

i think an aunt. and they are probably investigating to see if the finger belonged to that aunt.

it's likely the woman cut the finger off before they buried or cremated the body.

she is a really disgusting sick person if she did this, and based on what i have read i would be she did.

[ogradda]

7. Cutting a finger off a dead family member.

O man, that would be low. :(

[atre]

8. The initial AP report said it was "torn," not sliced

Sounds like an industrial accident in the slaughterhouse to me. They do happen.

I know people are naturally suspicious of anyone who sues a big company (partially because the media has so ingrained in us how bad it is to do that), but I'm reserving judgment on this one. Fingers are very tough to find, and it's very difficult to tear one off... And while the article glosses over this fact, the lawyer she's hired is a criminal lawyer; it is certainly not unreasonable to hire a lawyer when you are the subject of a criminal investigation.

However, there is reason to believe that the police know some nonpublic information. They would not have received the search warrant to search her home unless they have some very incriminating evidence against her (unless they used one of the many rubber-stamp judges or magistrates).

[applegrove]

5. What a creep. Why cannot they just scan these sociopaths into

MRI machines when they are 10 and put them on a tight leash from then on.. I do not know.

[lwin]

6. The Genesis thing did it for me too...

What is with these people? :rofl:

[Richard Steele]

9. Investigators are saying it DID NOT come from the Aunt.

They don't give details, but I assume they interviewed the people who cremated the aunt's remains.

Of course, we still await results of the DNA testing; it's not like crematorium operators are ever dishonest, right?

But frankly, it's almost impossible that it came from the WENDY's food suppliers....That stuff goes through a multiple-grinder process which is specifically designed to LIQUIFY small bones!

It's the "economy of SCALE"; keeping EVERY bone out of millions of pounds of meat is expensive AND impossible...so they process it all down to semi-liquid, occasional bones and all, and then mix in additives which make it as FIRM as hamburger again.

And on the SCALE of a WENDYS meat supplier, there's just no way you could lose ONLY a finger.
Those meat-grinders are HUGE! They are being fed with sterilized WHEELBARROWS full of meat!

If you said some guy FELL IN and was killed....sure, that's possible.
But to say that someone lost only 1 1/2 inches of a finger, and then that finger survived intact....NO. Not possible.

It just doesn't work that way.

[ogradda]

11. Well that sounds nummy.

I think I'll swear of those double stacks for a while.

[Richard Steele]

12. I did....but then Hardees came out with those Angus-burgers!

And I thought: "Hell, it's probably not anyone I ever met."

YUM!

[shockra]

10. The first thing I thought of when I saw that story...

Was the movie The Hitcher. It ran a few times on cable recently, and in one scene C. Thomas Howell is absentmindedly eating a plate of french fries in a diner when he almost puts a severed finger in his mouth.

I wondered if she got the idea from that movie.

But then again, how sick would you have to be to track down a finger to put in your food? And how exactly, would you get one?

[Richard Steele]

13. Do you really wanna know how to get a finger? PM me.

[thecorster]

17. I'm reminded of The Big Lebowski

"You want a toe? I can get you a toe. You don't wanna know how, Dude, but there are ways. Hell, I can get you a toe by three o'clock WITH nailpolish."

[Mist]

14. So she's not a credible witness, or source, or whatever

I personally don't eat at Wendy's because, IIRC, they're a "red" company. Also, their burgers have much higher fat content than other fast food burgers. And I've known a few people who were truly sorry they ever ate the chili. One last remark to dicksteele, LOL at "It's probably no one I know." !!!!!

[patricia92243]

15. I'd rather be named Genises than Chasity or some of these other crazy name

I recently met a child named Jingle - as in Jingle Bells.

[enki23]

20. my girlfriend talked to a woman who named hers "aquanet". or so she said.

.

[Domitan]

16. This is the antisequel to "Freddy Got Fingered"

Make way for "Wendy Does Not Get Fingered!"

My bad!

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Bill Maher's take on this story

New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Trout? Luckily, it was only a finger! If it was a whole hand, Congress would have voted to keep it alive.

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/

[enki23]

19. some people got ill eating at a local wendy's where i grew up

it was from the salad bar. E. coli. no fingertips, just an employee *or a sloppy patron* who didn't wash their hands after shitting, and who touched the lettuce, most likely. it's always the lettuce that gets you, at least in the short term. you *cook* the beef. you cook the *hell* out of the beef. i've eaten at wendy's many, many times. i worked at one for two years as a teenager, to make some money because working for my dad was purely pro bono. i never got sick, and i don't expect to get sick next time. it ain't health food, but it ain't particularly toxic either. i worked at one, and i'll still eat there. that says something, either about me or about them. the place i worked at was completely obsessed with cleanliness. more so, i would bet every penny i have, than your average upscale restaurant.

this case sounds like grade A bullshit.

[Mz Pip]

21. Pretty weird

That finger did not looked like it had been cooked. It looked pretty much like a relatively fresh, raw finger.

If it had been cooking in the pot at Wendy's wouldn't it have looked cooked?

Mz Pip
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