Wendy’s Old Fashioned Handburgers
Thursday, January 19th, 2006 • Filed under Con-artists, Scams, Updates
Remember the woman in California who faked finding a severed human finger in her chili at Wendy’s? I wonder whatever happened to her? (insert harp flashback music and blur)…
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – A couple [Anna Ayala and Jaime Plascencia] who planted a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s fast food restaurant was sentenced in California on Wednesday to nine years in prison.
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Davila also ordered the couple to pay almost $22 million in restitution but Wendy’s officials indicated to the court they would only seek to collect approximately $170,000, representing the wages lost by employees at the San Jose restaurant where working hours were cut back after a downturn in business.
These “Love Connection” rejects made everyone believe for a solid month that the finger was real before investigators announced it was a fraud. Even though Wendy’s was vindicated, the fingering caused the sharpest decline in their third quarter profits since their deal with Disney to rename the hamburgers in their Kids’ Meal “mouseburgers.”
The judge showed the press just how hooked he was on phonics by saying..
“Greed and avarice overtook this couple and they lost their moral compass,” Judge Edward Davila said of Anna Ayala and her husband Jaime Plascencia in handing down the nine-year sentence.
Wow, nine years in prison for a finger? Even Michael Jackson didn’t even face
nine years for using his finger to…never mind.
Bornfree says: June 18th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
There’s got to be something more to this deal!
Uralegal says: April 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I think whoever wrote this story is pretty dumb, too. How does the judge’s statement show that he is “hooked on phonics”? Was his pronunciation really good? Oh.. because he said “avarice”, right? That threw off this crack reporter.
neene says: January 11th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Its just nasty I hard this story and every since I haven’t ate at wendys