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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 22, 2005 10:38:07 GMT -5
I just read about that today -- of course the question is, was it her own finger she used - ? You know how far some of these freaks are willing to go . . .  |
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Post by rockkid on Apr 23, 2005 12:20:19 GMT -5
Nope. They are saying possibly that of her dead aunt.  |
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Post by rockkid on May 14, 2005 9:49:25 GMT -5
Up Date Wendys..........
SAN JOSE, California -- The mysterious finger that a woman claimed to have found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the finger in an industrial accident, police said yesterday.
"The jig is up. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place, and the truth is being exposed," police Chief Rob Davis said.
The discovery of the finger's owner marks a significant break in a case that has confounded authorities for nearly two months, ever since Anna Ayala, 39, claimed she bit down on the well-manicured, four-centimetre-long finger in a mouthful of her steamy chili.
Authorities said last month that they believed the story was a hoax, and they arrested Ayala at her home in Las Vegas and charged her with attempted grand larceny for allegedly trying to shake down Wendy's.
The finger's owner was traced through a tip made to a Wendy's hotline, Davis said. He said the man lost the finger in December, and authorities "positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip."
Davis said the Nevada man, whose name was not released, is co-operating.
Police believe the man gave the finger fragment to Ayala's husband, Jaime Plascencia, who was arrested this month on identity-theft charges unrelated to the Wendy's case.
During the investigation, Wendy's said no employees at the San Jose store had missing fingers, and no suppliers of Wendy's ingredients had reported any finger injuries. Authorities reported that there was no evidence the finger had been cooked, and also said Ayala had a history of filing claims against businesses.
Wendy's offered a $100,000 US reward and has said it has lost millions in sales since Ayala made the claim while visiting her family in San Jose. Dozens of employees at the company's Northern California franchises also have been laid off.
Wendy's has not yet given out the award. Company spokesman Bob Bertini said officials need to talk with police to determine who should receive it.
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Post by luke on Aug 18, 2005 10:34:06 GMT -5
ATLANTA - A 78-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on charges she shot her 85-year-old ex-beau to death as he read the newspaper in a senior citizens home.
Lena Sims Driskell was charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Herman Winslow was slain June 10.
Police said Driskell was angry that her yearlong romance with Winslow had ended and he was seeing another woman. She allegedly shot Winslow four times with an antique handgun at the Hightower Manor retirement home in southwest Atlanta, where the two lived.
“I did it and I’d do it again!” she allegedly told officers.
The woman’s attorney, Deborah Poole, said her client was released on bail Thursday and is staying with her granddaughter. Poole said her client is “very ill” but would not elaborate on her specific medical condition.
I'm sorry, this isn't just draw-droppingly weird or anything, but that line I put in bold has had me laughing all morning, thinking about some old lady quoting all her favorite Chicago mobsters from her childhood.
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Post by stratman19 on Aug 18, 2005 10:40:45 GMT -5
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! ;D
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Post by luke on Aug 18, 2005 10:44:34 GMT -5
So you all heard about that World's Ugliest Dog contest, and the winner being that Chinese Crested, right? When I saw that thing about a week ago, I don't think my jaw has really dropped like that in years. Here's a story about the owner, and then I'm going to put up some pics...be fucking ready if you've never seen this dog before... 'Ugliest' Dog Is a Thing of Beauty to His Owner
Some people won't even touch Susie Lockheed's pooch, a champion of hideousness. But she's dedicated to him despite the world's opinion.
By Wendy Lee, Times Staff Writer
SANTA BARBARA — Some may call it a tale of beauty and the beast. But Sam, a 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested, and a three-time champ in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, is the dog of Susie Lockheed's dreams.
Lockheed, 53, enjoys massaging Sam's fleshy, thin, potato-chip ears and running her fingers through the small patches of white hair on his head.
She likes kissing Sam's hairless frame, littered with blackheads, brown warts and moles. Even his hindquarters have a large hernia lump.
Then there's his right eye, left a reddish-purple from cataracts, which stands out from the other, which is a milky white.
"I've never had a dog this much in love with me," Lockheed said. "I really baby Sam, and kiss him a lot. He's a toad [that's] going to turn into a prince."
Sam is one of four hairless dogs that love to groggily lounge on the couch in Lockheed's Santa Barbara home, where she operates a beauty salon.
Lockheed grew up in Palos Verdes Estates with household pets and suffered from allergies that would worsen when she was near furry dogs.
She said her life changed when a friend gave her TatorTot, a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix, for her 40th birthday. "I never had a dog I could cuddle with before," she said.
Later, Lockheed would adopt dogs Tinkerbelle and Sam and would buy PixieNoodle, all hairless dogs. Her friends approve the "cuteness" factor of the other dogs. Sam is a different story.
Though Lockheed had wanted her other dogs, she had to be persuaded to take in the world's ugliest dog. He had already been rejected by an adoption agency, which deemed him too homely for any home they knew. Sam's former owner, who was moving to a place where dogs weren't allowed, was desperate, Lockheed said.
"He didn't look so good then, but he's looking worse now," Lockheed said, adding that in recent years Sam has gone blind and suffered illness. "There's something quite noble about Sam. Even though he's unattractive, he expects to be treated like royalty."
A year after Lockheed took in the dog without a home, she suffered a relapse of thyroid cancer, with which she was first diagnosed as a teenager.
After drinking a radioactive iodine treatment, Lockheed had to stay at home for five days, and her entire room had to be covered in plastic — even the telephone. Friends had to leave food by her door because of the radiation. But she wasn't alone; Lockheed was able to keep one dog with her, and she picked Sam.
The two enjoyed lounging and watching television. Sam never left her except to visit the side yard through his doggy door. The two have been inseparable ever since. Now Sam cries when Lockheed isn't around.
"He made a grave situation really fun. I think dogs are a gift from God. They don't care if you're having a bad hair day," Lockheed said.
But as the only male dog in the household, Sam was sometimes treated as an outcast by the other dogs, who were jealous of the attention Lockheed lavished on him. He was even blocked from the couch by the females.
Then in 2002, Lockheed saw a Jay Leno show featuring the world's ugliest dog from the Sonoma-Marin Fair, which has held the contest since 1989. She knew Sam would be a natural.
To prepare, she skipped Sam's usual treatment with mild lactic acid lotion, which clears off dead skin cells, for a few days and let his nails grow out.
"You don't practice, and you certainly don't groom," Lockheed said. "It's the opposite of preparing for Westminster," the big New York dog show.
Sam won, and has taken the fair's title every year since, including last month. Lockheed plans to enter Sam in a similar contest in March in Del Mar. ![]() www.heaven666.org/galleries/ugliest-dog/ugliest-dog-3.jpg[/img] |
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Post by luke on Aug 18, 2005 10:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by phil on Aug 18, 2005 10:52:28 GMT -5
HOLY FUCKING SACRED COW !!
That has to be one of the UGLIEST thing
I've ever seen in my whole life !!
That beast has even crooked teeths
and moths-eaten ears for crying out loud !!
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 18, 2005 10:54:04 GMT -5
awww...i think its cute
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Post by chrisfan on Aug 18, 2005 10:54:27 GMT -5
I think they must have modeled the gremlins after that thing ... only made they had to make the gremlins more attractive so they didn't scare kids away from the movie.
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Post by luke on Aug 18, 2005 10:56:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought it looks a bit like a cross between a Gremlins gremlin and the Crypt Keeper.
Funny thing, if you do a search for it, the first thing you see if snopes.com, the urban legends page, stating that the dog isn't a hoax. It's so ugly, people have a hard time believing...
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Post by phil on Aug 18, 2005 10:56:23 GMT -5
And it seems like it is eating his own paw !!
No way I wanna see more pictures of... THAT !!
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 18, 2005 11:31:21 GMT -5
It's not a mummy?
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 18, 2005 11:34:57 GMT -5
I think they must have modeled the gremlins after that thing ... only made they had to make the gremlins more attractive so they didn't scare kids away from the movie. LOL . . . yeah, I think that was just a "PG-13" kinda movie, now that you mention it... |
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 18, 2005 11:36:13 GMT -5
And it seems like it is eating his own paw !! No way I wanna see more pictures of... THAT !! He's just chewin down a toenail, a trait I find endearing in hairless ratdogs. I just wanna pet him . . . |
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