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Michigan teen finds severed finger in roast beef sandwich from Arby's

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XiaNaphryz

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/17/national/a092121D38.DTL&tsp=1

(05-17) 13:38 PDT Jackson, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan teen finishing off an Arby's roast beef sandwich chomped down on something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.

Turns out it tasted like finger. The fleshy, severed pad of an unfortunate employee's finger, apparently.

Ryan Hart, 14, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot on Wednesday that once he got a good look at it, he knew right away what had been in the junior roast beef sandwich he was eating last Friday.

"I was like, `That (has) to be a finger,'" Hart said. "I was about to puke. ... It was just nasty."

The employee apparently cut her finger on a meat slicer and left her station without immediately telling anyone, said Steve Hall, the environmental health director for the Jackson County health department. Her co-workers continued filling orders until they found out what had happened, he said.

John Gray, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Arby's, released a statement Wednesday apologizing for what he described as an isolated and "unfortunate incident." He said Arby's is still investigating, but has determined that the Jackson workers shut down food production as soon as they found out what happened and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized the restaurant.

The injured employee was treated at a hospital. Gray said the franchise has fully cooperated with health officials and was given the approval to remain open.

Ryan's mother, Jamie Vail, was incredulous. She and her friend, Joe Wheaton, had taken Ryan and his 11-year-old brother to the Arby's drive-thru and she told the Citizen Patriot she thought her son was joking when he exclaimed he had found a piece of a finger in his sandwich.

"Somebody loses a finger, and you keep sending food out the window? I can't believe that," said Vail. She and Wheaton said the severed section was about an eighth to a quarter-inch thick and at least one inch long.

Vail said she called 911 and met police at a local health center, where her son's blood was drawn and he was prescribed some medication.

Ryan said he is feeling fine. Vail told the paper she has been in touch with a lawyer, but hasn't decided whether to pursue the matter.

There have been a number of incidents in recent years in which a restaurant worker's accidentally severed flesh found its way into someone's food.

In 2006, a diner at a TGI Friday's in Indiana found part of a kitchen worker's finger on his hamburger. The year before that, a North Carolina man bit into what he thought was candy in his frozen yogurt only to find it, too, belonged to a worker who had had an accident with a food-processing machine.

There have also been hoaxes, including one perpetrated by a Nevada woman and her husband, who claimed in 2005 that she bit into a severed finger in a bowl of chili she bought at a Wendy's in San Jose, Calif. Both received lengthy prison terms after admitting it was a hoax. Wendy's said the bad publicity cost it millions of dollars in sales.
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Feep

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I'd be thrilled if I found a finger in my food. It would have no discernible mental effect on me, save that of spending money more freely because I'd get a fuckton of it.
 
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Iksenpets

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At long last, they can be reunited.
 
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IrrelevantNotch

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Didn't we already have a case EXACTLY like this where it was found the customer planted the severed finger in order to sue the restaurant for hundreds of dollars?

edit - I'm an idiot who didn't read the thread.
 
MaddenNFL64

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Ate a Arby's roast beef sandwich when i was a kid. I puked it up shortly afterwards. Never went back.

Now im thinking, maybe I ate a severed finger, and didnt get the true Arby's experience?
 
TheMan

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unless he actually catches a disease i don't see what he could sue for. assuming the article is true, arby's did stop sending out food and sanitized stuff as soon as they found out.

however, they should cover the cost of any prophylactic medicine that had to be taken, blood tests, etc.
 
EYEL1NER

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A Michigan teen finishing off an Arby's roast beef sandwich chomped down on something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out.
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How could he tell the difference from their roast beef?
 
DonMigs85

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I feel bad for the employee.
Was it just the bottom flesh of her finger (with the fingerprints) that got sliced off?
 
Boss Man

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Look, a company exists to make money. You can't expect them to check every single sandwich for whether or not there's a human finger in it. This generation is so entitled.
 
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Darth Tigris

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Man, I JUST ate some Arby's not 2 hours ago. Why can't I ever hit an easy payday like this???

Oh, and my Arby's are GOOOOOOOOD here.
 
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