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jury has convicted a mother and her son in a case involving a mouse found in a bowl of soup at a Cracker Barrel Old
Country Store in Newport News, Va. Carla Patterson and her two sons were eating at the Cracker Barrel in Newport News when Mrs. Patterson says she found a dead mouse in her bowl of vegetable soup. An extensive investigation, including laboratory tests, revealed that the mouse was placed in the soup after it was brought to the table.
The Pattersons were convicted of conspiracy to commit extortion. It seems after the incident they demanded $500,000 from Cracker Barrel in exchange for photographs of the mouse, which Ricky Patterson took with his cell phone during the meal, and for a public confession that Ricky Patterson planted the mouse in the soup as a practical joke.
5-02-2006 @9:52PM Mitchell said... who really thinks they will get away with something like this. ANYONE in the food service business would notice a mouse floating (or lack there of) in a bowl of soup.
I guess they took the advice of the person that "found a finger" in her food at Wendy's.
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