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A teenage Taco Bell employee in Virginia has received a sentence of six months in jail for spitting in a loyal customer's Mountain Dew, according to the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. After the customer raised a stink about the lack of iced tea, Shaleesheya G. Ford, 18, decided to lace his second choice with something of her own. According to the victim, Ford giggled and told him to have a nice day as she handed him his drink. The victim discovered the "loogie" shortly after leaving the restaurant. "Once I touched it, I knew exactly what it was," he told the FFLS. The spit in question was turned over to police. Charges stemming from the incident include assault and battery, obstruction of justice and filing a false police report. It's unclear from the FFLS story how the charges are related to spitting in a drink.

Anna Ayala, the woman who changed the face of Wendy's by planting a severed fingertip in her chili last March, was recently sentenced to nine years in prison. Her husband, Jaime Plascencia was sentenced to 12 years.

For those not familiar with the details, Ayala caused a worldwide brouhaha when she produced a severed digit from a bowl of rich and meaty Wendy's chili. It was later determined that the finger came not from a Wendy's employee, but from a co-worker of Ayala's husband. If I recall correctly, the co-worker owed Plascencia some money and Plascencia, opportunist that he was, offered to settle the debt by accepting the man's finger, which was recently severed in a job-related incident.

Wendy's estimates that the stink has caused losses of $21 million worldwide and roughly $500,000 at the San Jose location where the incident occurred. At her sentencing, Ayala apologized and said that Wendy's is one of her family's favorite restaurants.

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