Finding frogs in your weight watchers food or snakes in your TGIF or mice in your Pepsi is one thing and alerting the authorities for infomational purposes is one thing, but please don’t plant rats in your soup in the hopes of extorting a half-million. Because you will be caught, like Debbie Miller of Wisconsin. Here brilliant scheme was defeated by a microwave.

[restaurant owners] The Dollers kept the rat after the extortion attempt. Insurance investigators sent it for testing and determined that not only wasn’t a wild rat, but rather a domestic, white rat that had been cooked in a microwave. The restaurant doesn’t use microwaves.

Woman found guilty of planting rat in meal at Grand Chute restaurant [Postcrescent] (Thanks to cyclenu!)

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