Another Finger in Someone’s Food — This Time for Real
Unlike the Wendy’s story, this story appears to be real. (Via Xrlq.) It’s also a lot funnier:
N.C. Man Finds Finger in Frozen Custard
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside – a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident.
Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy’s restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger found in a package from Kohl’s Frozen Custard.
State officials went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine.
Wilmington television station WWAY reported that Clarence Stowers found the finger in custard he purchased Sunday night.
Here’s my favorite part:
Stowers, who did not immediately return calls Monday from The Associated Press, told the station: “I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream … to make it a treat. So I said, ‘OK, well, I’ll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'”
Stowers said he spit the object out, but still couldn’t identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water – and “just started screaming.”
Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer.
Shop owner Craig Thomas said the employee who lost the finger had dropped a bucket while working with a machine that dispenses the custard. He tried to catch the bucket when the accident occurred.
Thomas told WWAY that several employees tried to help the injured worker, and that a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped custard from the bucket into a pint before being told what had happened.
Joe Reardon of the state Agriculture Department’s food and drug division said state officials closed the shop while the food-processing equipment involved was cleaned and sanitized.
In March, a Las Vegas woman claimed she bit down on a 1 1/2 inch-long finger fragment while dining with her family at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, Calif.
Investigators have since called her claim a hoax and charged her last month with attempted grand theft related to millions in dollars of financial losses Wendy’s has suffered since news of her claim broke.
I’m not sure why this is so funny. But it is. It really is.
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Patterico's Pontifications » Scum of the Day: Clarence Stowers (0c6a63) — 5/7/2005 @ 2:10 am[…] any lawsuit Stowers might file against the custard shop. (Via How Appealing and commenter Rick.) […]
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Patterico's Pontifications » Scum of the Day: Clarence Stowers (0c6a63) — 5/7/2005 @ 2:13 amGotta admit… you nailed this one, Patterico. Digital perfection. The whole joint was rolling on the floor!
So the next time someone gives you the finger, just cut him off without any severance pay.
Get the point?
Dafydd
Dafydd (df2f54) — 5/3/2005 @ 3:59 amWith any chutzpah the owner would have declared that the finder of the finger had won their contest as to who could identify a fake finger, and he got the prize … a free finger-free cup of custard. Hoopla, bells ringing, take back the finger and give the fella a custard and get him out the door, quick.
Ruth (8aa011) — 5/3/2005 @ 4:51 amThe funny is contained exclusively in the “sometimes they give you candy, so I thought OK, well, I’ll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it”
That is the funny. And all the funny. And good funny it is.
Christopher Cross (cdc0ce) — 5/3/2005 @ 10:23 am“I’m not sure why this is so funny. But it is. It really is.”
And there you have it. You can’t always exlain funny. It just is.
Buckley F. Williams (82e13a) — 5/3/2005 @ 1:48 pmThe humor fades a bit when you hear that the finger was potentially reattachable, and the manager pleaded unsuccessfully with the “lucky” recipient to give it up for that purpose. He refused, because the loss of valuable “evidence” for the lawsuit he was already planning loomed larger than the humanitarian considerations for him.
Rick (01a4d5) — 5/6/2005 @ 4:25 pmNo kidding, I read that too. This guy is even bigger scum than the woman who faked the finger at Wendy’s.
Xrlq (5ffe06) — 5/6/2005 @ 6:35 pm