Wendy's Trying to Solve Mystery of Finger

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Saturday April 16, 2005 1:31 PM


By KIM CURTIS

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Somewhere out there is a woman, dead or alive, who is missing a well-manicured finger about 1 inches long. Authorities know where the finger ended up - in a bowl of Wendy's chili - but just who it belongs to is a mystery.

Anna Ayala's claim that she bit down on the finger in a mouthful of her steamy stew on March 22 initially drew sympathy. But when police and health officials failed to find any missing digits among the workers involved in the restaurant's supply chain, suspicion fell on Ayala, and her story has become a late-night punch line.

``She went back there for lunch today - she's trying to collect all five,'' quipped David Letterman.

Jay Leno joked: ``Instead of a spoon, they serve it with nail clippers.''
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1. Mystery

"Who gave Wendy's the finger?"

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2. somebody at work was talking about this case and said

that they had heard that suspicion is on the woman herself and that the finger is that of a dead relative or something like that--but the relatives body is already in the ground or has been cremated--not sure which. Anyway, I didn't hear how this person heard that, but apparently it is one theory.