home depot
Sure, there's probably a perfectly innocuous explanation why a woman called the
Home Depot in Jacksonville, Illinois and asked how to remove a large quantity of blood from her carpets. But that doesn't stop people's imaginations from running wild, and didn't stop the employee who took the call from alerting the police.
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unacceptable food
The image at left has been redacted for the protection of our more sensitive readers. The events of this story, if true, simply boggle the mind. A German tourist visiting
New York City alleges that his delicious steak was somehow served with a used tampon on it. Warning: blissfully grainy photo and video inside.
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dangerous
Every time Kevin unscrews a new bottle of Kraft salad dressing, the
sharp plastic hinge cuts him. This is good to know if you're in a supermarket and need to show another shopper that you're not to be messed with. It's also good to know if you're trying to unscrew a Kraft dressing bottle, we guess.
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kfc
A North Carolina man is claiming that there was
blood in his KFC sandwich, and KFC corporate isn't denying it. Nathan Toothman says he ate two sandwiches from KFC before opening a third, which he claims contained a smear of blood. From Abc 11:
He took the wrapper back to the KFC and showed it to the manager. He says he was met with nothing but evasiveness and defensiveness. "They didn't want to hear it. I kept hearing it's not blood. There's no way that happened...it couldn't happen here."Toothman says he called the general manager of this KFC and the health department. After the health department got involved, Nathan says the GM agreed to sit down with him. She asked Toothman what he wanted, and Toothman said, "I want 2 things. First of all, I want for you to take steps to ensure that this doesn't happen again because it's disgusting and it made me, you know, sick, and it is sick. And I said secondly, I would like for you to pay for me to get a blood test against all blood borne pathogens."
He eventually got his blood test paid for by KFC, after ABC's reporter called KFC on his behalf.
—MEGHANN MARCO
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blood
A customer of a Louisville KFC/Taco Bell is claiming that smears of human blood were all over her order. " Briana Ralston says she and her 1-year-old daughter were already home, had already eaten part of their dinner by the time they discovered what looks like human blood on the bag and wrappers — even where the wrappers came into contact with the food."
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blood
Consumer news from Washington: The
Navy will not be allowed to test a new "blood substitute" (derived from cow's blood) on 1,000 some civilian trauma victims without their consent. From MSNBC:
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halloween
Taking a cue from the Australian Sperm Bank Association's successful 2003 ad campaign, we proudly present this Red Cross advertisement from the Land Down Under. They want to suck your blood!
saw
Consumer affairs is a subject with enough maniacs and skeletons-in-closets that this site really celebrates Halloween all year round. But we're going to make at least a token effort to get ghastlier as it gets closer to Halloween.
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knives
"TRY ME!" exclaims the packaging on the
Anolon Santoku, exhorting the consumer to give the "Sure-Grip" a grab.
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top
Eagle-eyed reader Billifer von Raptor spotted the following sign in a local Wahoo's Fish Taco in San Diego, CA and was disturbed by its promise, what with something in Afghanistan and Iraq going on.
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gas
"Democrats running for Congress are moving quickly to use the most recent surge in oil and gasoline prices to bash Republicans over energy policy, and more broadly, the direction of the country.
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american airlines
A Maryland woman claims her luggage was 'covered in blood' when she retrieved it from the carousel.
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blood
A woman is suing Mc Donald
s after finding blood slathered inside her fry box.
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fast food
Man, it's a great day for disgusting fast food stories. First, the
Kentucky Fried Roachwich and now, a customer who ordered a
McDonald's strawberry sundae and discovered it was topped with a different crimson liquid entirely—
human blood.
According to court documents, Jara bought food, including four hot fudge sundaes, at the restaurant's drive-thru window on Dec. 30, 2004.
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