Wendy's Chili: Finger's Owner Found?
The Wendy's finger-in-the-chili story just gets stranger and stranger. Authorities have found a woman who lives about 60 miles from Las Vegas who lost the tip of her index finger when her pet leopard attacked her on February 23, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. The last time Sandy Allman, 59, saw her finger was in a bowl of ice in the emergency room of a Las Vegas hospital. Doctors were unable to reattach the finger, and now the hospital can't account for the finger's whereabouts.
Allman lives about 60 miles west of Las Vegas, which is the home of Anna Ayala, the woman who says she bit into a finger in a bowl of chili she was eating in San Jose, Calif., on March 22. While Allman is willing to take a DNA test to determine if the chili-finger is her finger, authorities admit they're skeptical that it is. The biggest problem: The leopard bit off about 3/4-inch of Allman's finger, but the one found in the chili was twice as long as that. "Obviously, if we have more of a finger than she lost, you might look at that on face value and say it's probably not the same," Police Sgt. Nick Nuyo told The Associated Press.
Despite that major discrepancy, the police aren't yet ruling it out. "Right now, because it's an open investigation, anything is possible," San Jose Police Officer Enrique Garcia told the San Francisco Chronicle. "We are certainly not ruling (Allman) out; no, not at all." Meanwhile Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo told the paper, "We can't say this is the same finger one way or another, but the only thing we can truthfully say is there is no connection between (Allman) and the person who found the finger in her food."
Earlier this week, Ayala said she was so emotionally distraught by all the attention she has received from police and the media that she is dropping her claim against Wendy's and will not sue the Dublin, Ohio-based fast food chain. Her attorney, Jeffrey Janoff, explained it this way: It "has caused her great emotional distress and continues to be difficult emotionally." Once the news hit that Ayala had bit into the finger, Wendy's immediately conducted its own internal investigation and determined that anyone who had access to any part of its food chain, including the employees in the San Jose restaurant, all had their fingers intact. Wendy's is still determined to find out what really happened and is offering $50,000 to the first person who can provide verifiable information that identifies the origin of the finger in the chili.
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