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Officials Probe Finger-in-Sandwich Claim

 

Friday, October 20, 2006

 

 

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(10-20) 11:48 PDT Chowchilla, Calif. (AP) --

 

 

Health officials are investigating a woman's claim that she found part of a

human finger in a Subway sandwich — an allegation reminiscent of the chili

bowl finger hoax that hit a Wendy's restaurant last year.

 

 

Two health inspectors visited the Subway restaurant Thursday in Chowchilla after

the woman reported finding what appeared to be a half-inch piece of a finger a

day earlier, said Jill Yaeger, director of the Madera County Environmental

Health Department.

 

 

The inspectors did not find any evidence that a restaurant worker had lost part

of a finger, but the purported human digit was sent to a laboratory for testing,

she said.

 

 

The Subway manager, Anita Munoz, said she was in the restaurant when the woman

returned with what she claimed looked like a finger.

 

 

" It looked like a thick piece of fat, " she told The Fresno Bee. " It doesn't look

anything human to me. "

 

 

Munoz said the incident would be investigated by Subway's national headquarters.

 

 

Chowchilla is about 90 miles east of San Jose, where a Las Vegas woman claimed

in March 2005 that she bit into a fingertip in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's

restaurant. Anna Ayala's stomach-turning claim made headlines around the world.

 

 

The claim was found to be a hoax and Ayala was sentenced to nine years in

prison. Her husband was sentenced to more than 12 years for getting the finger

from a co-worker who lost it in a workplace accident.

 

 

Wendy's, based in Dublin, Ohio, said it lost $2.5 million in sales because of

bad publicity and had to lay off dozens of employees at its Northern California

franchises.

 

 

Subway, which has more than 26,000 restaurants in 85 countries, is owned by

Doctor's Associates Inc., based in Milford, Conn.

 

 

 

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,

there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in

such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest

we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

William O. Douglas