Mcdonald's Sued for Maggot-Infested Cheeseburger

[Scrapster]

I think I'm going to buy a cheeseburger today and let it sit outside for about a week or two. Then I'll take a bite out of it and see how many bugs I can ingest. Then sue the pants off mcdonalds.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I suppose it is possible that the lettuce or some other ingredient of the sandwich had maggots in it - I can't imagine they could survive being cooked in the patty.

In all fairness, some kids are easily spooked (I remember not being able to sleep for DAYS when my parents took me to The Shining when I was 10 or so - oddly it was not the movie itself, but the head-exploding trailer for David Cronenberg's Scanners that preceded it that caused the problem), and I can imagine if a kid DID in fact bite into a burger full of maggots it might be scary and traumatic.

Betcha McD's would settle that for six figures just to avoid the publicity if it felt there were ANY chance of loss at trial.

 

[HowardStern]

I'd love to see a picture of this. I mean we got a picture of the chicken head so why no picture of maggots>

 

[Jal]

Does not fit the picture..

If a scam, they are better off going the "I found a body part" route.

McD's cooks frozen patties, in high temp double sided presses. Can cook a frozen big mac patty in under 90 seconds. How do a ton of maggots survive that? Heck, how did they survive the deep freeze.

 

[Moonbeam]

Maggots are probably higher quality meat than what McDonalds serves.

Those maggots were probably healthier than the cheeseburger they were in.

Hehe, Good ones!

 

[ProviaFan]

I've never had any bad experiences with the local McDonald's (in Linton, IN). They seem to keep it pretty clean, fwict. But ya never know, some crazy employees might do strange things.

 

[SSP]

Never had a problem with MD, but I usually go to BK anyway.

 

[Moonbeam]

I watched our local McDonalds manager pick up toilet paper from the bathroom floor and then go uout and serve burgers without a hand wash. Didn't even rince off with the the coffee.

 

[raven82]

sounds like the mom put the maggots into the hambuger so that she'll never have to work again.

 

[Bozo Galora]

give the kid an application for fear factor

 

[SJ]

Don Vito that would be all good and all but a Cheeseburger doesn't have lettuce. It has an 1/10 pound patty(or there abouts, its small), a slice of cheese, diced onions, mustard, ketchup, all on a small bun. I know this, because the only thing I will eat at McDonalds are their cheeseburgers and fries.

 

[Antoneo]

Sounds like a pile of bs coming from that whole family to me...

 

[MrBond]

I too have basiclly avoided McDonalds of late. It's so hard to find a clean one, and the one in my crazy small town is staffed by disgruntled teenagers who might do God knows what to my food. The one next to where I work is popular with the lunchtime crowd, especially on Mon-Tues, but I'm still avoiding it. Had some bad chicken nuggets a week or two ago and the thought of McDonalds makes me sick.

 

[Ferocious]

Fast food nation is a good book if you want to find the will power to stay away from fast foods.

 

[zimu]

darn it... mcd's is like my staple diet!! i wonder how many not-so-nice things i've eeaten...

 

[KBrinks]

chinese food rules.. mm fried rice

anyways... i think the kdis full of poo-tang... he should know you cant leave your cheese burger outside his trailer next to the dog out for a week and expect it to be fresh and tasty...

 

[obiwaynekenobi]

how would live maggot surivive being cooked for 15 mins?

 

[Anaconda]

probably wasnt cooked, eeeew, that makes me wanna bomb the place

 

[geno]

<< probably wasnt cooked, eeeew, that makes me wanna bomb the place >>


I think someone would've noticed that the hamburger was cold before the kid put it in his mouth.

 

[Belegost]

Sounds like a lot of bull. Discounting the question of how the maggots got into the burger; how did the kid not feel live maggots in his mouth? It says his sister started screaming when she saw them crawling, and he was just calmly eating his burger? BS! Anyone who's had a live thing in their mouth knows that you feel it crawling very damn quickly. This is the lamest thing I've ever heard.

 

[HowardStern]

I really need a picture to believe this one! And yes I hate mcDonalds.

 

[aa_koch]

The fact alone that this happened at the boy's house and not in the restaurant, is reason enough for me to believe that they're trying to con McDonald's.

Besides, I am pretty sure maggots only appear on the food if it is rotten. I admit that many of the guys working at McD's are &quot;a few fries short of a happy meal,&quot; but even they aren't wacky enough to sell maggot-infested food.

 

[CinderElmo]

Does anyone have a link to this story? I can't seem to find it on excite or cnn to verify that it is even a real story.

 

[Russ]

<< I want to know how maggots can survive being cooked? >>



They can't. This one is so obviously a setup, the slimeball lawyer who filed the suit should lose his license.

Russ, NCNE

 

[GL]

A few days a week, my dad is a food inspector for the Canadian Government (other days he works in the private sector). You wouldn't believe how many stupid people try to scam the place. In Canada, if you want the government involved, you have to give up your rights to sue. Otherwise, you have to pay to do the investigation. Needless to say, 95% of the wackos stop right there once they find out they can't get money.