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ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ! That's nasty. Guess she's trying to profit from that, huh ?

Redeemed wrote

Of course, that may be a stretch

But you have one fine screenplay there!

Wendy's International Inc.: The Dublin, Ohio, company said quarterly earnings fell 2.8 percent from last year as sales at its namesake fast-food chain were hurt by inclement weather and an incident in San Jose, Calif., in which a female customer claimed she found a finger in a bowl of chili.

The San Jose Wendy's where that woman says she found the finger is being hit hard by its new notoriety. A manager says business is down a good 50 percent.
Stephen Jay, Wendy's spokesman: "We're part of a family here. These people have been with us 10 years and it hurts us that it's affecting their families and we're trying to ask the folks in San Jose to come back and see us and let us once again re-earn your trust."
Some employees have had their hours trimmed. So far, none of the employees have been laid off and Wendy's hopes to keep it that way.

A search of court records indicates the Ayala family, which lives in Las Vegas, has been involved with at least a half-dozen legal battles with a variety of businesses dating back about a decade. In the Bay Area, a suit against a former boss for sexual harassment, and a suit against an auto dealership when a tire fell off a car. In Las Vegas, yet another suit against the fast food restaurant, El Pollo Loco, which serves grilled Mexican chicken, when a daughter got sick.

In September of 2002, Bertha Davila thought she was realizing the American dream. She bought a mobile home from Anna Ayala, handing over a down payment of $11,000 of her hard earned cash.
But one month later, the bank evicted her, saying Ayala never owned this home, so it wasn't hers to sell. The deal was void.
Police told Davila they couldn't arrest Ayala at the time because the only evidence was an un-notarized, hand-written receipt for her down payment.
Court records show Anna Ayala put $10,000 down to purchase her home in Las Vegas just one week after taking Davila's money.

It sounds like she has made a career of fraud.

I hope this goes to court and she is found guilty of attempted grand larceny.

mystery solved.....

SAN FRANCISCO(AP) The finger that a woman claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili was severed in the tailgate of a truck during a work accident, an employee of an asphalt company said.

Pat Hogue, an estimator with a Las Vegas asphalt maintenance company, told the San Francisco Chronicle for a story in Sunday's editions that a man he was working with lost the tip of his finger on a job five months ago.

Both men were working with James Plascencia, the husband of Anna Ayala _ the Las Vegas woman who claimed she found the finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Hogue told the paper.

Authorities believe the injured man gave the finger to Plascencia. Ayala is accused of trying to shake down the fast-food giant with a bogus tainted-food claim.

"I saw it on the news. I didn't know the lady at first was married to that James guy until after he was arrested," Hogue said in a telephone interview from his home in North Las Vegas.

Hogue and investigators have refused to identify the man with the severed finger, but police have said he's cooperating with authorities.

Ayala, 39, is in jail on suspicion of attempted grand theft. She claimed she bit into the finger on March 22 and filed a claim against the restaurant chain shortly afterward. The publicity resulted in a major loss of business for Wendy's.

Ayala later withdrew her claim as she came under scrutiny and investigators found at least 13 cases in which she has filed claims in her name or her children's.

Plascencia, 43, is being held in a Las Vegas jail on unrelated charges. He is awaiting extradition to California.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis said a tipster led investigators to the Nevada man with the missing finger. Investigators have refused to say how the finger was preserved or transported from Las Vegas to San Jose.

Police said more arrests were possible.

mystery solved.....

SAN FRANCISCO(AP) The finger that a woman claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili was severed in the tailgate of a truck during a work accident, an employee of an asphalt company said.

Pat Hogue, an estimator with a Las Vegas asphalt maintenance company, told the San Francisco Chronicle for a story in Sunday's editions that a man he was working with lost the tip of his finger on a job five months ago.

Both men were working with James Plascencia, the husband of Anna Ayala _ the Las Vegas woman who claimed she found the finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Hogue told the paper.

Authorities believe the injured man gave the finger to Plascencia. Ayala is accused of trying to shake down the fast-food giant with a bogus tainted-food claim.

"I saw it on the news. I didn't know the lady at first was married to that James guy until after he was arrested," Hogue said in a telephone interview from his home in North Las Vegas.

Hogue and investigators have refused to identify the man with the severed finger, but police have said he's cooperating with authorities.

Ayala, 39, is in jail on suspicion of attempted grand theft. She claimed she bit into the finger on March 22 and filed a claim against the restaurant chain shortly afterward. The publicity resulted in a major loss of business for Wendy's.

Ayala later withdrew her claim as she came under scrutiny and investigators found at least 13 cases in which she has filed claims in her name or her children's.

Plascencia, 43, is being held in a Las Vegas jail on unrelated charges. He is awaiting extradition to California.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis said a tipster led investigators to the Nevada man with the missing finger. Investigators have refused to say how the finger was preserved or transported from Las Vegas to San Jose.

Police said more arrests were possible.

another update:

SAN JOSE, Calif.(AP) A man who lost part of his finger in a workplace accident was the source of the fingertip used in an alleged scam against Wendy's restaurants, and gave it away to settle a debt, his mother said.

"My son is the victim in this," Brenda Shouey said in an interview published in Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle. "I believe he got caught in something, and he didn't understand what was going on."

Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested April 21 at her Las Vegas home on suspicion of attempted grand theft for allegedly costing Wendy's millions of dollars in a plot to shake down the company by claiming she found the finger in a bowl of chili in a restaurant in San Jose.

Ayala was to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.

Shouey, of Worthington, Pa., said her son, Brian Paul Rossiter, 36, of Las Vegas, lost part of his finger in December in an accident at a paving company where he worked with James Plascencia, Ayala's husband. His hand got caught in a mechanical truck lift, she said.

She said he gave it to Plascencia to settle a $50 debt.

San Jose police announced last week the finger was obtained from an associate of Plascencia, but they have refused to identify him because he is cooperating in the investigation. They did not immediately return a message Wednesday seeking comment on the newspaper's account.

Shouey said her son had showed the severed finger to co-workers in a macho display of humor and was desperate for cash when he gave it away "to this character, James."

"My son is a happy-go-lucky guy. He thought it was cute to show" the severed finger, Shouey said. "It's like a man thing."

Shouey declined to give details of how the finger was preserved or whether Rossiter knew why Plascencia allegedly wanted the finger. She said her son told her of his role only this week and is keeping a low profile after undergoing intense police questioning.

Plascencia was arrested earlier this month on unrelated charges of failing to pay child support in a previous relationship.