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In San Jose, California, last week, the adult son of a woman allegedly, reportedly shot himself. He had another problem: He was a convicted felon and therefore not allowed to possess or even touch a firearm.

His mommy told the cops that he had been shot in a robbery, but the story unraveled.

The same lady achieved notoriety in 2005 by planting a severed human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant and then claiming damages. She and her husband were convicted of a felony for that escapade.

Mommy and little Lupe are scheduled for arraignment Friday.

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- Jim

Where exactly does one obtain a severed finger?

jmra wrote:Where exactly does one obtain a severed finger?

Assuming you don't want to cut off your own finger or that of a loved one who happens to be unconscious at the time ...

If you backtrack on the "Wendy's chili finger" case, the Googles say that one of the criminal actors involved got the finger in the aftermath of a workplace accident.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:In San Jose, California, last week, the adult son of a woman allegedly, reportedly shot himself. He had another problem: He was a convicted felon and therefore not allowed to possess or even touch a firearm.

His mommy told the cops that he had been shot in a robbery, but the story unraveled.

The same lady achieved notoriety in 2005 by planting a severed human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant and then claiming damages. She and her husband were convicted of a felony for that escapade.

Mommy and little Lupe are scheduled for arraignment Friday.

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- Jim

I REMEMBER THAT LADY!!! That story was all over the local news about a year before I moved here in 2006. It must have been the biggest topic of conversation around water coolers for quite a while.

What is it they say about some people being slow learners?

- Jim

Just a suggestion for this fine pillar of society,

How sad. She was just getting her life turned around, after serving four years of a nine-year sentence for the chili misunderstanding, and living down the notoriety of having filed 13 or so lawsuits against everyone from Pollo Loco to Government Motors, and those pesky small court claims for failing to pay on some silly car. And I hope things got sorted out about that charge against her for taking an $11,000 down payment on a mobile home that didn't actually belong to her and using it as down payment on a $199K house in Las Vegas that she moved into with her boyfriend who she later married despite his owing $400,000 in child support for various kids (she's a forgiving sort of gal) and some of her kids and that she later refinanced for a $276K loan despite her having no job (apparently the boyfriend/husband's paving job paid well?). Quite the business woman.

With a role model like that I just don't understand how her son could end up a felon-in-possession-who-shot-himself-in-the-foot (for once, literally and figuratively).

And she's a Texas gal...

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Wow, I had no idea of the full scope of the situation.

I wonder if that family has had a single gene worth passing on since, oh, maybe, the 15th century.

- Jim