A family from Sidney, Iowa has filed suit against the owners of a KFC/Taco Bell after they were served food that was allegedly contaminated by an employee. According to the lawsuit, the couple’s 4 year-old son became “violently ill” after being served food that had been contaminated by an employee who “maintained ‘special servings’” of food contaminated with urine and saliva so that it could be fed to unsuspecting police officers.
The employee’s behavior was discovered by other employees of the restaurant who reported it to management. According to the lawsuit, the employee was not disciplined and was allowed to continue working for 2 months. The employee, Casey Diedrich “pleaded guilty to violating the Nebraska Pure Food Act and fined $100,” according to the Sioux City Journal. Yuck. —MEGHANN MARCO
Lawsuit alleges Taco Bell employee spit, urinated in food [Sioux City Journal]
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All you can really do is be nice to the people who are serving you. When you think about it, many people who work jobs like this are not very happy with their current job. As a result, it wouldn’t take much for a disgruntled food service employee to mess with someones food for doing something that bothers them.
While I’m sure I’ve probably had ‘contaminated’ food at some point during my life it’s nothing that I’ve ever noticed or that has ever made me violently sick. It’s best to just be nice and not think about it to much. If you go getting super paranoid you’ll never eat out again! Lets just hope that in most restaurants the employees have enough people working around them to notice if they do anything horrible. I mean, in this article you see that the other employees let management know about it.
As for the measly $100 fine, that is completely ridiculous. This guy has some serious problems and really deserves to go to jail (or psych hospital) for at least a little while. I wouldn’t be surprised if he (or the restaurant) were sued for this.
@bbbici: Exactly what the hell are you talking about?
I work with saliva samples where I work. I can’t tell you how many colors of the rainbow I see come in as “saliva.” The most common in yellowish/orange because the subject probably has gingivitis and their gums bleed.
Because the people working in these types of jobs probably can’t afford healthcare or a dentist, I’m betting that their saliva has a little extra something from the inside of their mouths, most likely blood.
Urine: I hope the urine didn’t touch any part of the outside of their body before making it into the food. There’s a reason you should have sex with a condom not the least of which is herpes, chlamydia, and who knows what else.
Let’s face it. Those of us who have worked in fast food before know exactly why this guy did this. The customer was a fucking dick.
Some people expect far too much from fast food workers and bitch and complain about the littlest things.
I am anti police and never been in trouble other than traffic tickets.
I did work 8 months with the police, “pulling out my hair” to get the crack gal that lives across a 4 lane street and vacant lot from me silenced. She would bang on the dumpster and bellow. Fire trucks didn’t wake me up-but she did. The police had an attitude of “just put up with the noise at 3am”. “Yes that is easier than us having to do something”
So for all the officers that didn’t want to handle the problem, “wish you had had that food!”
I will say that there are a handful of officers of the law that have redeeming qualities. I worked with one and really liked her, and the one that moonlights at the grocery store is nice to talk to. Oh yes, and the one who when I ass-holed a car told me before I left, “I should be giving you a ticket for this but I am not.” That was nice of him. BUT— How can officers give tickets for something that they didn’t see themselves?
Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win you are still retarded.
why would parents feed their children taco bell (or any fast food) to begin with?
subjecting your children to neurotoxicity (via msg) is far more damaging than small amounts of human waste – which all fast food and major chain restaurants have.
as i’m sensing the ingredients for human trash, i trust the parents are also smokers, who subject their children to those toxins as well.
I had a friend who worked at taco bell, and someone used to work with him that would pee in the jalapenos every day.
I dont eat there anymore.
I’ll bet Dick Cheney’s shadow government could use someone of Casey Diedrich’s caliber. He and his Vice-President, Dumbya, have practically been feeding the rest of us the rhetorical equivalent of Casey’s “special servings.”