Officials: Diner finds finger in chili

[Supreme Cmdr]

Yuck!

[Matchoo]

I thought KFC's motto, not Wendy's, was 'Finger Lickin Good'....

[LostInSpace]

I don't know if anyone's been following up on this case:

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- The woman who claimed she found a well-manicured finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month was arrested Thursday night in Las Vegas, police said.

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Ayala has a litigious history. She has filed claims against several corporations, including a former employer and General Motors, though it is unclear from court records whether she received any money. She said she got $30,000 from El Pollo Loco after her 13-year-old daughter got sick at one of the chain's Las Vegas-area restaurants. El Pollo Loco officials say she did not get a dime.

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[Kevin Trotter]

Its a hoax. But the guy who found a fingertip (actually a fingerprint) in his chicken sandwich

at Arby's is unfortunately for real.

[LostInSpace]

BUSTED!!!! All fingers point to fraud! I believe she's not the only involved in this either: the husband and his associate too.

SAN JOSE, Calif. ÔÇö The mysterious finger that a woman claimed to have found in a bowl of Wendy's (search) chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the finger in an industrial accident, police said Friday.

"The jig is up. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place, and the truth is being exposed," Police Chief Rob Davis said.

The discovery of the finger's owner marks a significant break in a case that has confounded authorities for nearly two months, ever since Anna Ayala (search) claimed she bit down on the well-manicured, 11/2-inch finger in a mouthful of her steamy chili.

The case became the talk of the Internet and late-night talk shows and spawned numerous bizarre tips and theories about the source of the finger, including one about a woman whose fingertip was bitten off by a spotted leopard kept as a pet.

Authorities said last month that they believed the story was a hoax, and they arrested the 39-year-old Ayala at her home in Las Vegas and charged her with attempted grand larceny for allegedly trying to shake down Wendy's. But whose finger was in the chili remained a mystery.

The owner was traced through a tip made to a Wendy's hot line, Davis said. He said the man lost the finger in December, and authorities "positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip." The nature of the industrial accident was not disclosed.