Speaking of Creative Complaints…
…this one, whilst not a hoax, rings with insincere poetry.
In the Louisiana case, Johnson said she suffered physical and psychological harm when she discovered the object in a take-out salad from an Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson in June 2004.
Her lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, accuses the restaurant of unsanitary food preparation and improper training of employees, as well as “failure to prevent the inclusion of a human fingertip in a salad to go.”
So, if she’d eaten said salad while dining in the restaurant proper, it wouldn’t have been so bad?
There’s a moral to the story here, but I can’t put my finger on it.
July 5, 2005 3:05 pm 
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Worst of all, the finger was medium-rare.
“…if she’d eaten said salad while dining in the restaurant proper, it wouldn’t have been so bad?”
That depends. The reporter is obviously not too familiar with Louisiana, because “Jefferson” is not one suburb but the many widely differing municipalities of Jefferson Parish. In Metairie, this sounds about right. In Kenner (Britney Spears’s hometown), they’d probably be grateful for the extra protein, though they probably don’t HAVE any sit-down restaurants with, you know, actual waitstaff. In Slidell, this would probably result not in a lwasuit but in someone getting killed.
What, is this woman trying to make someone toe the line? Of all the nerve! I’ll bet she doesn’t have the guts to elbow someone aside and take care of the matter herself? Maybe she’s eying that fat check — it’ll probably buy a lot of salads, once she gets her hands on it.