Identity of Finger in Wendy's Chili?

[OneFinger]

The mystery of the finger found in a bowl of chili at a San Jose Wendy's last month deepened Thursday with revelations that police have searched the Las Vegas home of the woman who made the revolting find.

 

A tearful Anna Ayala, 39, angrily denied planting the finger in a telephone interview with The Chronicle. She accused San Jose and Las Vegas officers of bursting into her home with guns drawn on her and her family Wednesday afternoon.

 

"They put guns to us and handcuffed us and threw us to the ground in front of all my neighbors,'' Ayala said Thursday. She accused police of terrorizing her family, ransacking her home and injuring the arm of her 13- year-old daughter.

 

"They treated us like trash, like terrorists. It's the worst nightmare,'' she said.

 

San Jose police said they and local officers executed a search warrant regarding the wayward finger in Las Vegas, but refused to say whose property had been searched and whether anything was found.

 

Police would not respond to Ayala's claims of rough treatment or even acknowledge searching her home.

 

"We're not going to release any information that is going to jeopardize our investigation,'' said San Jose police spokeswoman Officer Gina Tepoorten.

 

She dismissed press rumors that authorities are investigating whether the finger belonged to Ayala's dead aunt.

 

"It's just rumor -- we have no information that it belongs to an aunt, '' Tepoorten said.

 

She added that investigators are interviewing anyone who might explain Ayala's grisly discovery March 22, when she reportedly bit into the finger while eating chili with relatives she was visiting in San Jose. Police are questioning Wendy's employees, its food suppliers, diners present that day and "anyone who knows the finder of the finger," Tepoorten said.

 

"We want to find out who the finger belongs to, from a criminal aspect. We don't know if this was an industrial accident or something more serious like an unreported homicide,'' she added...

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/08/MNGLFC57TC1.DTL

[+ Lucky]

RE: Identity of One Finger in Wendy's Chili?

 

I hope thay don't finger the wrong person here.

[taylorky]

RE: Identity of One Finger in Wendy's Chili?

 

OMG....groannnnnnn

[OneFinger]

RE: Identity of One Finger in Wendy's Chili?

 

>I hope they don't finger the wrong person here.

 

You have no idea how traumatic this story has been for me. :+

[eastbayguy]

A little more has come out since this version surfaced. The SF Chronicle web site reports that this woman has previously sued a fast food place., which ended up getting dropped.

 

SF Chronicle report here:

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/09/FINGER.TMP

 

This link I just posted is new, and has been updated since the one I read this morning. A rather curious case. A relative of mine, who is a medical examiner/forensic pathologist and knows about these things says body parts are fairly easy to come by.

 

--EBG

[+ deej]

I heard on the news this evening that Wendy's has canvassed their employees and their vendors' employees and nobody is missing a digit.

 

This is just plain "news of the weird"-worthy.

[taylorky]

this is good ol fark.com stuff

[eastbayguy]

In case you're wondering what the finger looked like, here's a picture:

 

http://members.cox.net/azbillebay/chilifinger.jpg

 

--EBG

[Tommygunzz]

I loved Bill Mahar's comment this week: "If there had been any more DNA in that chili, Congress would have voted to keep it alive on a respirator."

[Guest ChgoBoy]

>I loved Bill Mahar's comment this week: "If there had been

>any more DNA in that chili, Congress would have voted to keep

>it alive on a respirator."

 

I believe Bill's comment was...."Thank God they didnt find the whole hand, Congress would have voted to keep it alive on a respirator." In any event, It was one of the funniest lines on a really great show....Thank God for Bill Maher's new show "real-Time".

[BobbyB]

>A tearful Anna Ayala, 39, angrily denied planting the finger

>in a telephone interview with The Chronicle.

 

Why would she plant a finger in a telephone interview? This woman is whacked! :+

 

- BobbyB

[Guest]

>A relative

>of mine, who is a medical examiner/forensic pathologist and

>knows about these things says body parts are fairly easy to

>come by.

>

I guess it is if you're a forensic pathologist. What I'm curious about is how an unemployed janitor has a $500,000 home and pays $20,000 cash for a car. It's really beginning to look like she's a con artist, and if so, I hope they put her in jail until she's very old, and sell her home and personal effects in order to at least start to compensate her victims (including Wendy's).

[Guest ChgoBoy]

>>A relative

>>of mine, who is a medical examiner/forensic pathologist and

>>knows about these things says body parts are fairly easy to

>>come by.

>>

>I guess it is if you're a forensic pathologist. What I'm

>curious about is how an unemployed janitor has a $500,000 home

>and pays $20,000 cash for a car. It's really beginning to

>look like she's a con artist, and if so, I hope they put her

>in jail until she's very old, and sell her home and personal

>effects in order to at least start to compensate her victims

>(including Wendy's).

 

I say, make her work for Martha Stewart for 6 months. That'll teach her a thing or two.

[eastbayguy]

>I guess it is if you're a forensic pathologist.

 

Lots of people have access to bodies and body parts, including ambulance crews, paramedics, people in hospitals, medical students, people who work in medical schools, people working in morgues, mortuaries and on and on. Cases involving parts turning up where they shouldn't be are apparently pretty common.

 

--EBG

[eastbayguy]

More news on The Finger:

 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/13/national/a031328D95.DTL

 

The woman who found The Finger has now dropped her claim against Wendy's claiming the suit was causing her emotional distress. Gee, I thought that emotional distress was why you sued? But, what do I know? Anyway, I'd say this is one more data point on the side of the woman giving the chili The Finger so she could "find" it later.

 

Get real: How do you fail to notice a 1.5" long hunk of finger sitting on one of those little spoons you get at Wendy's? Give me a break.

 

--EBG

[Guest]

Well, it looks like this woman is (hopefully) headed for some jail time. Her lawyer has obviously advised her not to add fraud and extortion to her growing list of criminal activities. Her lawyer is sure running for the hills. She better "run for the border" herself if she doesn't want to end up in the slammer. What a ridiculously glaring fraud to try to commit when you've had all of those prior lawsuits in your history! It's so easy to sue in this country, that some people have no fear whatsoever of being caught, no matter how outrageous the abuse!

[Candyman]

I've put my finger in a lot of places but never a bowl of chili. But then I've never lost my finger either }(

 

Sounds like this woman should run for Congress. She would fit right in

[eastbayguy]

Arrest in Wendy's Case

 

This just in: The woman who reported finding the finger in the Wendy's chili was just arrested and charged with larceny. Apparently, she's got quite a history of filing these kinds of claims. My first reaction was that she did it. Here's the story;

 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=4&u=/nm/20050422/ts_nm/crime_wendys_dc

 

--EBG

[bigguyinpasadena]

RE: Arrest in Wendy's Case

 

Hmmm-kinda a dumb bunny in my book!

Friday, April 22, 2005

LAS VEGAS - The woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month has been arrested, the latest twist in a bizarre case about how the 1 1/2-inch finger tip ended up in a bowl of fast food.

 

Anna Ayala was taken into custody late Thursday at her Las Vegas. She was arrested on a warrant alleging grand larceny and attempted grand larceny, Las Vegas Police Sgt. Chris Jones said.

 

Authorities said would not provide further details until a news conference Friday afternoon in San Jose, Calif. - the city where Ayala claimed she bit down on the finger in a mouthful of her steamy stew.

 

Ayala's 18-year-old son, Guadalupe Reyes, said he had gone to the store around 9 p.m. when he got a phone call from a friend who was back at the Las Vegas home.

 

"We rushed back and she was already gone," Reyes said.

 

Reyes said he had no other details and was waiting to hear from his mother. A handwritten sign on the door of her home Friday morning instructed reporters not to knock, and telephone messages were not returned.

 

Ayala, 39, was held overnight at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, where records showed she was being held without

[+ deej]

RE: Arrest in Wendy's Case

 

Dumb bunny? You're being kind.

 

She says she got 30K from El Pollo loco but they say she got nothing. She seems to be living in some sort of altered reality.

[Retired Fly Boy]

RE: Arrest in Wendy's Case

 

I hear McCauley Culkin found a hand in his pants at Neverland Ranch, now that is shocking !:-(

[Zippy]

RE: Arrest in Wendy's Case

 

That's not at all shocking.