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Posted by: kwflatbed

AP

MONTPELIER, Vermont — A man who says he bit into a Burger King sandwich and found an unwrapped condom inside has sued the owner of the restaurant.
Van Miguel Hartless, 24, of Fair Haven, said Friday he bought the Southwestern Whopper at a Burger King in Rutland on June 18 and made the discovery when he got home and started eating it.
"My third bite into the burger, it was just a foreign taste," he said. "It was a very sour, bitter sort of taste. It almost had a numbing sensation.
"As I went to bite down a little harder, I felt a rubber grind in between my teeth. I saw it half in my mouth, half hanging out. It was an immediate sick-to-my-stomach type of thing."
Hartless said he waited three weeks before contacting an attorney. His lawsuit, filed Nov. 16, names store owner Carrols Corp., of Syracuse, N.Y., and seeks damages for pain and suffering, emotional duress and medical expenses.
Messages left with Carrols Corp. were not returned Friday. A spokeswoman for Burger King said it has referred the matter to Carrols Corp.
Similar claims have turned out to be fraudulent in other cases. A California couple was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2006 for planting a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili in a scheme to extort money from the fast-food chain.
Hartless, a student at Green Mountain College, defended his claim.
A search of court filings in Rutland Superior Court — where Hartless' suit was filed — and the Civil Court in El Paso, Texas, where he lived before showed no prior or existing lawsuits, according to the Rutland Herald, which first reported the lawsuit Friday.
Hartless' lawyer, Devin McLaughlin, said he had Hartless undergo a lie detector test before the suit was filed, and that he passed "with flying colors."
Hartless said he has suffered from vomiting, nightmares and emotional distress. He said he also has incurred medical expenses, because he is worried about whether the condom had been used.
He said stored the sandwich and its original wrapper in a plastic bag in a freezer in his garage.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316122,00.html

Posted by: jettsixx

Why did he wait three weeks I would have been on the phone with someone right away. That is pretty sick though.

Posted by: badge14

I second jettsixx's comment! that is so nasty!

Posted by: adroitcuffs

Sniff... sniff... sniff... hmmm, what's that I smell?? Bullshit, perhaps??

Call me cynical, but so many of these stories are bogus. A pathological liar can pass a polygraph because he truly believes his own lies. The time delay adds to the suspicion here. We'll see how this plays out....

Posted by: JakeDodge

Quote:

Originally Posted by adroitcuffs

Sniff... sniff... sniff... hmmm, what's that I smell?? Bullshit, perhaps??

Call me cynical, but so many of these stories are bogus. A pathological liar can pass a polygraph because he truly believes his own lies. The time delay adds to the suspicion here. We'll see how this plays out....

Like the lady who "found" the finger in her Chili at wendys. BS. try again kid, maybe hit the lottery as work obviously isnt an option.

Posted by: KozmoKramer

As stories evolve, I wonder if Van Miguel Hartless has contemplated the fact that he will be forever known as;
The Guy Who Had A Used Rubber In His Mouth....

Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

I guess he "didnt get it his way"

Posted by: SOT

The fuck you at the drive-thru.

Posted by: Harley387

Mmmmm....special sauce.

Posted by: lpwpd722

All I can say is YUCK. I'm glad is wasn't me.

Posted by: Barbrady

BS, waiting three weeks. "Gawddamn burger punk."

Posted by: honor12900

Its Nasty if its true. I was a supermarket manager for 6 years and found all sorts of good stuff ie. nails, glass, creepy crawlers of all sorts and even had a meat clerk cause a major recall by placing foreign items into hamburger so his girlfriend could have a lawsuit.

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