There's Gold in That Thar Chili!

Wendy's made the news recently when a Las Vegas women reportedly found a portion of a finger in her chili at a San Jose store. It made for some gruesome news reports, but most thinking people immediately smelled a rat, a suer-rat as CheatSeekingMissles describes her.

This is a women who makes her living by filing lawsuits, though this time her story was just too unbelievable. Fingers don't just turn up missing without being reported, so when Wendy's and the manufacturer went back through the chain of custody of the chili, they couldn't find anyone missing a digit.

Laer has that story and some others he's worked on as a crisis manager.

UPDATE: I saw the lady in question being interviewed by the news at her home in Las Vegas, shortly after it was searched by the cops. I also noticed that her daughter was wearing a brand new sling on her arm. Of course, Mom is alleging that the cops roughed up the daughter during the search.

My guess is the only thing they would have checked the daughter for was to make sure she had all her fingers. I wouldn't put anything past this lady.

A wag on the radio suggested that if you go into Wendy's and order the "Biggee" size chili, you get a whole arm.