WhiskeyPapa
10-21-2005, 01:19 PM
LINK (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1236630)
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. Oct 21, 2005 — Was the pig a victim of a drive-by shooting? That's one theory to explain how a bullet wound up in Diane Johnson's pork loin casserole.
She said there was no mistaking the projectile's distinct shape in the pork loin she bought at a Publix grocery store.
All meat is scanned with a metal detector before reaching Publix shelves, said Dwaine Stevens, spokesman for the company in Florida.
It's not clear how the scanners missed the bullet or how the bullet got in the pork loin in the first place.
Stevens said someone may have fired into a herd of grazing livestock.
According to the Wisconsin Pork Association, professional slaughterhouses don't shoot animals, for employee safety and meat quality concerns.
Now, here's the real good news:
Johnson, 74, said she was satisfied with a $10 dollar refund and another fresh pork loin from Publix.
She said she didn't plan to sue because no one got hurt.:thumbup: Good for her. We need more people like that who don't see every mistake as a potential windfall of cash.
BTW, Mr. Stevens, commercial hogs haven't been raised on pasture for decades, so it wasn't shot while "grazing".
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. Oct 21, 2005 — Was the pig a victim of a drive-by shooting? That's one theory to explain how a bullet wound up in Diane Johnson's pork loin casserole.
She said there was no mistaking the projectile's distinct shape in the pork loin she bought at a Publix grocery store.
All meat is scanned with a metal detector before reaching Publix shelves, said Dwaine Stevens, spokesman for the company in Florida.
It's not clear how the scanners missed the bullet or how the bullet got in the pork loin in the first place.
Stevens said someone may have fired into a herd of grazing livestock.
According to the Wisconsin Pork Association, professional slaughterhouses don't shoot animals, for employee safety and meat quality concerns.
Now, here's the real good news:
Johnson, 74, said she was satisfied with a $10 dollar refund and another fresh pork loin from Publix.
She said she didn't plan to sue because no one got hurt.:thumbup: Good for her. We need more people like that who don't see every mistake as a potential windfall of cash.
BTW, Mr. Stevens, commercial hogs haven't been raised on pasture for decades, so it wasn't shot while "grazing".