Updated: 04:14 PM EDT


Finger-in-Sandwich Claim Under Investigation

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (Oct. 20) - 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.


10/20/2006 15:59 EDT

it's Greg Biffle's. Douf Riechert fot mad for Biffle throwing a sandwich in his face, so Doug got even.

:lmao

ok i dont belive this whats with all the finger things i have heartd ov a human finger in chewing tabaco the human finger in chilie and now the human finger in subway

ewww!

Why do I smell another scam? What people will do to get money these days

Uhhhhhh right. Once this has already been tried, you gotta come up with a new scam.

me too. we have all been to subway, there is no way that a finger could be in the ingredients without the maker or the customer seeing it. when I go into a subway I watch the making of my sandwich, I would be able to tell is there was anything weird going on it.

Ditto that Melissa. Now if it was like McDonald's or Burger King, sure I could see the investigation. But come on, think of something creative. Say you found a rocky mountain oyster in your Big Mac or something.

Oh I do that same thing cause I know how sick and twisted things have gotten and its just getting worse and I dont trust it So I watch everything they put on there

:lmbo

I think this woman just wants money.

I bet it's another scam.

Some people are just willing to do anything to get lots and lots of money.

Wait till Marty hears this lol

:lmbo

oh lordie.