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Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 03-28-2001, 07:59 AM:

A family from I believe Toronto is suing McDonald's. Here's the story!

The family (mom, dad and girl) get their food and sit down at the table. The girl takes 3 bites of her food and says "Mommy, there's something in my burger." and the mother says "Oh, well just pull it out, it's probably justa hair or something.". The girl tries pulling it out and says "Mom, this isn't hair, but it's furry." The mother says "UM! Just spit up what you've eaten!"

They tell an employee and she goes and gets the manager. The manager takes it and says he'll take care of it. He throws out the food and gets another burger. He leaves and gets a refund for all their food. The family resecues the burger for proof. The discover at home it's a... RAT HEAD! The family takes a photo for proof and throws it out immediately.

Now they're suing McDonald's, who's policy is "Anything that happens to a customer is none of our business." and they say something about coming to the restaurant on your own risk or something.

GROSS!

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Andrew McCrea

"I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way!" - Jessica Rabbit

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 03-28-2001, 09:21 AM:

This is one that should be investigated, but the woman who sued because she dumped hot coffee on herself while driving, while she's just plain dumb.

I'm thinking about theaters and things that we sell. Anybody ever had "extras" in a box of candy or tub of corn? We've never had anything serious, just a nut or bolt from the popper occasionally fall into somebody's snack. Most folks who come to our theater are usually cool about things like that.

Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 03-28-2001, 09:24 AM:

Andrew, you'll find that most of these stories end up being either urban legends or stupid people who think they can make a fortune by suing a big chain of restaurants. Every couple of years we read of someone who claims to have found a mouse in a Pepsi bottle, or roach in a burger, or a Kentucky Fried Rat. Think how a burger is constructed by the staff and you'll realize that finding a recognizable rat head in a sandwich is even more unlikely than finding a talking sandwich with olive eyes in your refrigerator.

After a little grilling, (smile and nod to punmiester Maar) the people claiming to find ickies usually confess to the crime. The deed carries serious penalties, both criminal and civil. Creating a false report of a health hazard in food is considered product tampering, and civil liabilites for lost business could bankrupt a person.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-28-2001, 11:56 AM:

I agree with Jerry. The fact that they had to take the burger home to "find the rat head" where there were no McDonald employees pretty much screams that the story is a load of crap (meaning the family was faking it to get money from a lawsuit). Also, at least the way McDonald's have been constructed in these parts, you can see the person cooking the meat and there is really no way such a thing could get missed.

Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 03-28-2001, 12:33 PM:

I did see on the local news one night several months ago about someone getting an entire batter-dipped, deep fried chicken head in an order of McDonalds Hot Wings. It didn't happen here, but somewhere in the U.S. . They even had the guy who got it hold it up for the camera. If you just looked at it, it resembled everything else in the box, but upon closer examination you could see it was a head.

I didn't see the big deal in it.... it probably just tasted like chicken.

I found this on the web about the "Chicken Head"

Woman Claims She Discovered Chicken Head at McDonalds
November 30, 2000, 01:00 PM

A customer at a McDonald's restaurant in Newport News, Va., says she got more than she bargained for when she received her order.

Katherine Ortega said found a fried chicken's head in the box of chicken wings she ordered Wednesday.

Ortega said someone who wasn't looking closely could have easily mistaken the chicken's head for another piece of chicken, like the leg or a wing. The chicken's beak, the cone on top of its head and some feathers are visible.

Ortega said she wants to know how the chicken's head could have made it past inspectors and into the hands of a customer.

"I usually look at my food, but I shouldn't have to look that closely to see that,” Ortega said. “My 5-year-old probably wouldn't have looked. He probably would have thought it was a chicken leg and eaten it.”

Oretega says the manager at McDonald's offered the Ortega's another order of chicken and offered to return the chicken's head to the distribution company. Ortega declined.

The health department sent an inspector to the restaurant to look through the rest of the bag of chicken wings.

Officials didn't find anything unusual. The incident is being reported to the Department of Agriculture.

A McDonalds spokesman tells kgw.com that it is investigating the incident, and has no confirmation yet that the chicken head was definitely served by the restaurant.

Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 03-28-2001, 12:51 PM:

Of course, Andrew could go to: http://www.manbeef.com/processing.html
for a tasty snack and some sidesplitting sick humor.

Snopes has a "mcnoggin" on display.

Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 03-28-2001, 01:10 PM:

Jerry, That's discusting!

They showed the picture on "Canada AM", which is like "Good Morning America", except for Canadians, this morning.

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Andrew McCrea

"I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way!" - Jessica Rabbit

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 03-28-2001, 01:48 PM:

Jerry, Every time I think I've seen the strangest, most outlandish thing I've ever seen, something eventually beats it. THe ManBeef site you mentioned now holds that record.

Evans A Criswell

Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-28-2001, 02:02 PM:

Yum, Yum. Jerry pass the salt.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-28-2001, 02:05 PM:

Hmm...I'm going to be thinking of Soylent Green for the rest of the day now... Gee, thanks, Jerry.

Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 03-28-2001, 02:32 PM:

iNo problemo, guys!

Not to worry unless people start showing up at traffic accident scenes with napkins, knives, and forks.

I've seen stranger things on the web, but trust me, you don't want to know what.
<shudders>

BTW, Remember the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Humans?"

Also, I seem to remember an MP3 floating around thats a take-off on the "Beggin' Strips" soundtrack. "Oh boy! Oh boy! its PEOPLE!!! Nyumm, nyumm, nyummm!"

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 03-28-2001, 02:50 PM:

If anyone has ever listened to KQRS out of the Twin Cities they know they have some pretty funny spoofs on in the morning. My favorite is Mike Tyson's public service announcement. To the tune of the all too familiar beef council add, he describes the delicacies of an ear, ear-kabob, grilled ear, etc. Yumm

"Ear, its whats for dinner."

For more strange things I suggest www.cruel.com . Every day they have a new link to a site that is just out of this world. One of my favorites thusfar is www.badcookie.com . Don't you wish you got those fortunes when you ate Chinnesse?

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-28-2001, 03:09 PM:

On the subject of disgusting websites, try www.joecartoon.com. I especially liked the microwaved gerbil!

Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 03-28-2001, 03:10 PM:

What do expect from that clown on the TV ad Ronald McDonald, they are run by kids for kids.

I myself avoid them like the plague!.

Posted by Dave Bird (Member # 490) on 03-28-2001, 09:12 PM:

They won't get very far up here in our legal system, where it's "no blood, no foul".....

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-28-2001, 09:43 PM:

1 -- I need to see this in print. Newspaper or magazine, etc. I need to see names and dates. There's too much Urban Ledgend shtuff going around for me to believe it.

2 -- People in developing countries eat RAT all the time! I hear it is quite good. (Although I'm just going to take their word for it.) They say it tastes just like chicken.

3 -- By the time that (supposed) rat head made it through the processing equipment it would have been ground to smithereens. I find it hard to believe that the head would have made it intact... and THEN the person cooking it would have had to have missed it. (Even for entry-level employees this seems implausible.) Finally, Even IF it made it all the way through the "system" into somebody's food... it would have been sterilized by the heat!

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 03-28-2001, 11:41 PM:

You know this is living up to the last part of this forums name. It is making me want to yak!

Why is it no one ever has a complaint about wendy's food. Just what is in the chili?
Ever since the rumour about McDonalds using horse meat in their burgers the rumours and law suits just keep on going.

Heard one lawsuit about a woman who bit into her hamburger and burned her cheek with a hot pickle.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 03-29-2001, 12:28 PM:

Well in todays GTAToday paper says the lab report on the rat's head was placed there after the burger had been cooked andhad the toppings placed.
Sounds like a setup to me

Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 03-29-2001, 12:37 PM:

My aunt said that it was probably set up by an employee, like what Gord said.

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Andrew McCrea

"I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way!" - Jessica Rabbit

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 03-30-2001, 05:57 AM:

In Rochester, three young workers at a local Burger King are going to jail for tampering with food -- putting "body fluids" and cleaning fluids into burgers to get back at their employer:
http://www.rense.com/general4/ahhhhh.htm

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