Wendy's Severed Finger Scammers Sentenced

Couple gets long sentence in finger scam - Yahoo! News

Some time ago, I reported on this blog about the woman who claimed to have found a finger in a bowl of Wendy's Chili.

She has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, and her husband (who was in on the scam) was sentenced to 12 years (with the additional due to refusing to pay child support to another woman).

The court also awarded Wendy's a staggering $22 million in restitution. That seems excessive, since anybody with a brain should have known all along that it was all a lie. Wendy's has said that it will only seek to collect $170K, which is the amount their employees lost due to their hours being cut back at that particular store.

This story doesn't say whether Wendy's will pay that money to its employees, though. That would be interesting to know.

At least now we know where they got a severed human finger in the first place. Apparently the husband works with a guy who severed his finger on the job, and the guy gave the severed digit to the husband in payment of a $50 debt.

Gross.

Of course, these frickin' 'tards were all sobbing and crying and generally acting like, well, frickin' 'tards in front of the judge. However, to his credit, the judge gave them no mercy. They intentionally put a severed human finger into a restaurant's food, went on national television to swear their story was true (although I doubt many people believed it) and even hired a lawyer to sue Wendy's.

So, they deserve to spend a great deal of time at the GreyBar Hotel, and I don't feel the least bit sorry for them. I'm just glad we finally found out where the finger came from. That was bothering me.