Idiots! (and yes im talking about the Customer!)

Woman Claims Sundae Tainted With Blood

By Associated Press

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GEORGETOWN, Del. - A woman filed a lawsuit claiming that a hot fudge sundae she bought for her 12-year-old son was contaminated with human blood, but the owner of a fast-food franchise says the red substance was really just strawberry syrup.

A Superior Court judge was scheduled to hear arguments Friday in a lawsuit filed by Carmen Jara against AJM Enterprises, which operates a McDonald's restaurant in Georgetown.

According to court documents, Jara bought food, including four hot fudge sundaes, at the restaurant's drive-thru window on Dec. 30, 2004.

Her son, now 13, dug into his sundae and "recognized the taste of blood and, upon careful inspection, noted a red substance on the side of the sundae cup as well as mixed into his ice cream," the lawsuit claims.

Jara then went into the store and spoke to a swing manager, who confirmed that it was blood, according to the lawsuit. The manager, Joshua Ferrell, said the employee who prepared the sundae had an injured, bleeding finger, and told Jara that he had advised the employee to keep a bandage on his finger, according to the lawsuit.

Jara, who filed a report with Georgetown police, requested that the employee, who no longer works at the restaurant, undergo a blood test to rule out any diseases, but that her request was refused.

Michael Meoli, owner of the McDonald's franchise, said the claims are unfounded, and that strawberry syrup probably had clogged the sundae machine.

Ferrell, who no longer works at the restaurant, should not have said the substance was blood, Meoli said.

"What is he, a botanist? No, he's a 21-year-old assistant manager who saw her screaming in the lobby and said 'whatever you say lady.'"

Meoli, who ran unsuccessfully for a state House seat last year, said the allegations are meant to ruin his business.

"I hope she gets the same thing the Wendy's lady got," he said, referring to a woman recently sentenced to nine years in prison for planting a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili to extort money from the fast-food chain.

 

It astounds me the lengths people will go to....

 

well there are some serious diseases you can get through blood.

 

that is a little gross if it was the blood. I would have thrown up for sure.

 

im pretty certain it was a back up of strawberry syrup (being that it was in a strawberry sundae) or nothing at all.

 

the article says it was a Hot Fudge Sundae.
and, here is the question, does the syrup come thru the dispenser or do the employees put it on separately.
if they put it on separately, with a spoon or something, maybe the employee used the spoon out of the strawberry syrup. but still wouldnt explain if it were mixed into the ice cream.

 

dispenser. hmmmm yeah you are right. i misread so i dont know....

wait... if there was blood on someone's finger.... there is no way it would get MIXED INTO THE ICE CREAM....

the whole story sounds.... it doesnt add up in either way.

 

the only way blood from a finger could possibly be mixed into the ice creme was if it were done intentionally. and if thats the case............uh oh!

mcadees, will be paying out another 4 million dollars to a patron.

 

but wait........the kid could have stirred the sundae before he noticed, which would have mixed the blood or syrup into the ice creme.

 

haha i thought of that right about the same time you posted that.

 

If it was blood, good for her for suing.

 

I'm so happy we only do criminal and family law... civil law sucks.

I would have sued as well. Hopefully she had the sundae tested.

 

I love America.

 

Did they charge extra for the blood?

 

Why are you calling the customer an idiot. If her son was served a possibly diseased sunday, she should get something out of it. Though I dont think the owner should be held liable for having incompetent staff.

 

because when i read it i was originally pretty sure she was making it up.

i also read it wrong and thought they ordered a strawberry sundae which would explain it more so who knows?