Part of this nutritious breakfast
Watch your cereal and other grain-based foods! I don't think this guy lost any body parts before he was retrieved, but who knows if a shoelace or shirt button might have gotten loose...
Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE, TX — A 29-year-old man has died after he was buried by more than 20 feet of grain in a silo at the Port of Brownsville.
The accident happened as workers worked atop a large pile of grain, loading it onto a conveyor belt that leads to the top of a silo. Two other men were injured in the incident.
"He sank into it like quicksand," Port of Brownsville Police Chief George Gavito said of the dead man, whom he would not identify pending notification of relatives. "The other man fell in, but did not go as deep."
It took rescue workers 45 minutes to find the dead man's body, Gavito said.
Skin on a Sandwich
More free press for fast food! This time it's Arby's that has bits of human goodness in the food, but there's less of a mystery as to whose body the flesh came from.
Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio - A man is suing a fast-food restaurant operator for more than $50,000, claiming he found a slice of skin on his chicken sandwich.
David Scheiding filed the lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on April 1 after rejecting a settlement offer from GZK Inc., his lawyer said. GZK owns the Arby's restaurant in Tipp City where he bought the sandwich.
Scheiding said he realized something wasn't right when he bit into the sandwich on June 18 and found a piece of flesh about three-fourths of an inch long.
"It looked like I was seeing fingerprints on it," he said. "I got sick and went to the bathroom."
Miami County health investigators talked to the restaurant manager, who had a bandage on his right thumb and wore a latex glove, according to a health district report. The manager said he sliced skin from the thumb while shredding lettuce, and sanitized the area but didn't throw away the bin of lettuce, the report said. Scheiding's sandwich contained lettuce.
"Why wasn't the food searched, and why wasn't it thrown away?" said Scheiding's lawyer, Hank Hyde.
Christine Koeller, vice president of marketing and communications with GZK, said what happened was unintentional.
"(The manager) did destroy product that was in and around the slicer immediately, and did everything that he thought was appropriate to do," Koeller said
OK, so maybe "Skin Sandwich" won't gain the catch-phrase-ability of "Chili Finger," but I thought it was worth noting!
Ha! I did it! ChiliFinger.blogspot.com, welcome to the web!
Not sure what I'm going to use this blog for yet, but most likely I'll just use it to keep track of human body parts that end up in food.
Like "Chili Finger," which we all now know refers to Anna Ayala, a woman who claimed to have found a human finger in her Wendy's chili in San Jose, CA on 22 March 2005. As far as I can ascertain from available news sources, the object in question WAS indeed a human fingertip, about an inch and a half long and complete with manicured nail and even a fingerprint, which has not been matched with anyone yet. I have heard that there might have been DNA tests on the finger, but apparently nothing has come of that, either. Or if anything has been found out, the authorities aren't telling us yet.
Nevertheless, Anna "Chili Finger" Ayala was arrested on 22 April 2005 and is being charged with attempted grand larceny, with the assumption that she placed the finger into her own chili. Apparently she has a litigious history of bringing claims against other corporations for large sums of money.
For more information, here is the latest Reuters report on this story.
