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[eastbayguy]

In case you missed this in the news, the (former) owner of the Wendy's finger has been found. Good, old-fashioned police work coupled with a desire for the reward ($100K) got the job done. Seems a guy in Las Vegas lost a finger in an industrial accident. The guy's boss knew the guy who lost the finger associated with the husband of the finger finder and, well, just counted the fingers.

 

Here is the story from the SF Chronicle:

 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/19/BAGGNCR7PI1.DTL

 

The woman who found the finger remains jailed, because she can't come up with the $500K bail. She's facing nearly 10 years in prison. Bet she finds a lot of foreign objects in her food while she's a guest of the state.

 

--EBG

[Guest]

When you think of all of the millions of dollars lost and the people who consequently lost work because of her attempted extortion, a lifetime in jail wouldn't be punishment enough. She should spend the rest of her life in jail AND have her fingers chopped off one by one with a butcher cleaver. I wonder what her punishment would be in Saudi Arabia. Maybe we could send her there. }(

[OneFinger]

Ex-owner of finger lashes out: 'It's been hell'. Friends at bar say he grew angry that his mother spoke to media about case.

 

After days of hiding, the man whose infamous fingertip ended up in the middle of the Wendy's chili scandal said Thursday night that his life had been thrown into a tailspin by the case.

 

"It's been hell -- you don't even know!" Brian Rossiter, 36, bellowed from behind the door to his apartment at Thrift Suites, where residents pay by the week. He slammed his fists on the door and yelled obscenities as two reporters stood outside.

 

Rossiter said he had done nothing wrong but refused to discuss the case. He also said he was tired of the media attention and at one point shoved a television reporter before retreating behind the door.

 

Court documents released Wednesday show that after Rossiter had an accident late last year at the asphalt company where he works, he gave his fingertip to co-worker James Plascencia, apparently with the understanding that Plascencia planned to use the appendage to swindle a food company...

 

...One woman, who gave her name only as Cecily, said the whole episode had turned her off of Wendy's chili permanently.

 

"I know it was a fake, but still, the thought of it, ugggghh," she said...

 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/20/FINGER.TMP

 

Not sure that Anna Ayala should rot in prison for this but she deserves a stiff penalty. Her stupid act cost Wendy's thousands of dollars (short term) but may have much larger consequences with loss of market share.

 

Just out of curiosity, has any eaten chili from Wendy's since this happened?

[eastbayguy]

>Not sure that Anna Ayala should rot in prison for this but she

>deserves a stiff penalty. Her stupid act cost Wendy's

>thousands of dollars (short term) but may have much larger

>consequences with loss of market share.

 

Wendy's claims their losses are in the millions. Seems to have affected the chain nationally, not just in the Bay Area.

 

>Just out of curiosity, has any eaten chili from Wendy's since

>this happened?

 

Ever one to tempt fate, last time I was in the Bay Area, in early May, I stopped by the "finger" location, ordered the chili (plus a salad) and ate the chili in the same chair/same table as Anna Ayala. I told the manager that if I found a finger, I wasn't going to say anything.

 

We used to call this "tickling the dragon".

 

--EBG

[+ deej]

ROFL

 

One of my co-workers lives in that area and did the same thing.