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Man claims a 7-inch knife was baked into his Subway sandwich
"After taking a few bites I could tell something didn't taste right," says the 27-year-old Subway customer. He wants $1 million from the sandwich chain. (New York Post)
July 16, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
"Gimme the knife, I'm gonna cut my throat!"
Posted by: Nicholas Cage | Jul 16, 2008 2:11:13 PM
Jeez, and I thought Portland was being greedy with that $5k. Don't they usually cut the footlong sammiches in half for you? Something seems a little fishy here. Not sure if it's the million dollar demand or the uncut sammich that's throwing me.
Posted by: Reno | Jul 16, 2008 2:18:25 PM
It's Jarred - I know it is. He's snapped!
Posted by: Torgo | Jul 16, 2008 2:18:28 PM
yeah, it's a crazy story. At first I was like, well, he didn't get hurt but then I read where he became ill from possible contaminents....yeah, that got to me.
I found hair in my food before and that made my stomach turn. Maybe I should've sued.
Posted by: thereverendtwerp | Jul 16, 2008 2:25:30 PM
He didn't swallow the knife. You have to ingest the foreign object to collect your riches.
It sure looks like a prep knife they use.. in preparing food. What could possibly be on the knife to make him sick? One would presume it's the very knife used to prepare his sandwich.
Posted by: Duh | Jul 16, 2008 3:07:21 PM
Good Freaking Hell!
I don't think I need to repeat my comments dealing with the woman finding a rat in her food (from a couple of days ago), concerning how physically impossible it would be to conceal something like this, etc.
My son worked in a Subway for quite awhile. He tells me that the method used to mix and raise the dough for in-store baking makes it absolutely impossible to even do this ON PURPOSE. Even if you could somehow produce a piece of bread with something embedded in it, Subway CUTS THE BREAD OPEN to make the sandwich! (In fact, it usually irritates me how much they moosh and violate the bread.)
And yes, the sandwich was cut in half, clearly shown in the photo. A footlong is a tad under 12", so the sandwich is cut at the (just under) 6" mark. It's a 7 inch knife. HELLO! McFLY! If the "sharp edge of the knife" was indeed facing upwards, that makes things even more difficult, because now the knife is standing on edge, and therefore about twice the height if it was laying flat.
As far as the litigation: "He was not badly injured". He was not injured at all. He said "something tasted funny", NOT "I bit into the knife". If the blade was "extending into the half of the sandwich he was eating", that means the handle was in the half he was NOT eating. Ergo, he wasn't eating the half containing "whatever contaminants may have seeped into his food, possibly from the melted plastic handle". "A doctor told him he had the symptoms of food poisoning" equates to "I told the doctor I was throwing up".
Unless this whole "knife in the bread" plot was something carefully orchestrated, directed against this particular individual (and throw in the fact that he, like most of us, would be WATCHING THE PROCESS of making the sandwich), it's not even worth Subway's time to investigate this.
Posted by: msgelter | Jul 16, 2008 3:41:58 PM
Someone at the bakery must've been preparing a special loaf for a friend in prison!
Posted by: Mook | Jul 16, 2008 3:52:07 PM
Ya gotta swallow or it won't count!
& He works where?
Posted by: Anna | Jul 16, 2008 4:08:36 PM
Off topic but I just want to rail the 20yr old hot redhead with blue eyes that works at my Subway down the street. She is smoking hot and makes a mean sub and sometimes I get free cookies, to bad I can't get her cookie.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Jul 16, 2008 4:09:04 PM
Ask her out TAG, you might be surprised at her response. She might say yes, or she might plant a knife in your sammich...
Posted by: Reno | Jul 16, 2008 4:18:17 PM
Reno she has a boyfriend and I'm way to old for her. Not to old to teach her a few other types of lessons but I'm just content to have her make my sub when I go in there and admire her beauty and think dirty thoughts. Besides, I do flirt with her and she knows I do and I think she enjoys it.
Yes off topic, don't care tonight cause I've not been around the past week or so.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Jul 16, 2008 4:28:47 PM
TAG, I bet she does enjoy it. A lot of times it isn't who is doing the flirting with you, it's how it's done and that it's done at all. It feels good to be flirted with!
And by the way, my ex-hubby was 46 when I met him, and I was just barely 18...
Posted by: Reno | Jul 16, 2008 4:35:59 PM
Again, off topic but when did the Preview button show up? Seems kind of pointless unless you are using HTML and something might be out of wack.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Jul 16, 2008 4:37:46 PM
I wonder if this guy realizes that just because you sue someone for a million dollars, you are not automatically going to get it. He should be thrown out of court, and Subway should counter sue to reclaim their legal fees.
I hate the new American tradition of innumerable frivolous lawsuits.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2008 5:03:17 PM
Joe if there truly was a knife in his sandwhich he has a legit reason to sue. If he truly was made ill, he has a right to sue.
I once stuck horseradish sauce by accident into the Mayo container at the fix'ins bar at Roy Rogers. Well the next morning a lot of people got a mouthfull before my mistake was uncovered. It was harmless, not intentional but it did happen in 1987 where people where not sue happy but someone could have sued Roy Rogers for my simple mistake.
Mistakes do happen in life. I would be happy with free Subway for life.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Jul 16, 2008 5:25:53 PM
Oh, i fully agree that there are some reasonable lawsuits. If you get food poisoning from a restaurant because of poor sanitation on their part, you should have every right to sue. However, the restaurant should only have to cover medical bills, lost pay from the days you missed at work, and maybe a grand to ease the pain. You don't deserve hundreds of thousands of dollars just because you got sick.
And then the fraudulent lawsuits, like the infamous wendy's finger, are just clogging up the legal system and wasting everyone's time and resources.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 16, 2008 5:52:45 PM
Obviously that sandwich was supposed to be delivered to the city jail.
Posted by: many | Jul 16, 2008 7:27:51 PM
One of these days, someone's gonna find something in their food and alert the manager, explain what happened, and ask for a replacement, end of story.
Granted, it will most definitely be a cold day in Hell when that happens, but I've got a parka handy in my 'hope' chest.
Posted by: Soo | Jul 16, 2008 10:31:05 PM
already happened, Soo. Instead of suing the pans off of Dominos, I just got a free pizza.
Posted by: lester | Jul 17, 2008 6:04:54 AM
Waht a load of crap. My daughter worked in a subway for years and I have ordered enough of them myself to know they cut the hell out of them when they are made including cutting them in half. I smell a planted knife.
Posted by: R | Jul 17, 2008 6:07:49 AM
Until our pathetic laws start having much more severe penalties for these attempted scams idiots will keep trying them.
Man....this Subway vs Quiznos war is really heating up....now you get a free knife with a Subway foot long!
Posted by: jj | Jul 17, 2008 6:43:22 AM
I was at a brewpub eating nachos when I bit into a huge cheesy mass and almost chipped a tooth. At the same time I could suddenly taste metal. I spit out a good sized screw.
We talked to a manager, and got the nachos and our first round of drinks comped. IF I actually HAD chipped a tooth, or worse, swallowed the thing, yea, I would have sued, and I think I would have had the right to. Luckily I wasn't injured, and I felt the error was duly compensated - an apology, along with free nachos and beer goes a long way (getting the whole tab comped would have been even nicer, though).
That's why it pisses me off when people get caught planting crap - I've seen first hand that this stuff really does happen, but there are so many frauds out there, the first thing people think is "this guy's trying to scam the system".
Posted by: elchampino | Jul 17, 2008 6:54:23 AM
From the article:
"Agnesini, who works as a designer at Homo Xtra magazine in Midtown, bought the sub from a shop on West 35th Street, where he often went for lunch."
Hmmm, I smell something fishy here. Wonder what the mag deals with?
Posted by: | Jul 17, 2008 6:56:33 AM
God, what an obvious scam. As was mentioned above: take a 12" sub and cut it in half. It is completely impossible for a 7" knife to remain undetected.
When this is revealed as a scam, they need to throw this clown in jail.
Posted by: Keith | Jul 17, 2008 7:40:21 AM
IT WAS JUST LIKE CRACKERJACKS.
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