Week 6 EOC: Fake Vs. Truth

In 2005, Anna Aayala was dining at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant when she claimed she chomped down on a partially-cooked segment of human finger. The fast food chain suffered an estimated $21 million in lost business. "I cooked it," Ayala said of the severed digit. During the interview, she said she prepared the piece of ring finger at her Las Vegas home then drove it to San Jose, where she dropped it into the chili" (https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Wendys-Chili-Finger-Lady-Comes-Clean-87386747.html%3Famp%3Dy?client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us). "Wendy’s offered a $50,000 reward for information on the origin of the finger as sales at Wendy’s outlets (particularly in the San Francisco-San Jose bay area) dropped off significantly in the weeks following the incident” (Finger Found in Wendy's Chili?" Snopes.com. N.p., 05 June 2013. Web. 22 Mar. 2017). Her husband, Jaime Plascencia, got the severed finger from a co-worker, who lost it in an industrial accident. Both Ayala and Plascencia pleaded guilty. Aayala was sentenced to nine years in prison but was released after four years on good behavior. There's one condition to her release: She's not allowed to step foot back in the place that made her famous.

I know this story sounds wild but I kid you not this really happened. I was actually still living in Oakland, CA when it happened and I was quite disgusted when I heard what happened at Wendy’s and yes I was one of those people who would step foot in one. It was also quite entertaining to hear about how the woman and her husband went to such great lengths to scam Wendy’s for some money, that takes real dedication.