Mom, son accused of planting mouse in soup
 

Restaurant presses charges in Mother's Day case

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A woman who claimed she found a mouse in her soup while celebrating Mother?s Day at a Cracker Barrel restaurant was accused with her son of planting the rodent and attempting to extort money from the company.

Carla Patterson, 36, and Ricky Patterson, 20, were charged Tuesday with attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit a felony as they sought money from Cracker Barrel, said Howard Gwynn, the commonwealth?s attorney in Newport News.

Patterson claimed she had already eaten some of her vegetable soup when she scooped up the mouse on May 8, the day before Mother?s Day.

The discovery prompted the 500-store chain to stop serving vegetable soup nationwide, but a company investigation discovered the mouse did not originate from the Cracker Barrel kitchen.

?We learned that the mouse died from a fractured skull before it entered the soup,? Cracker Barrel spokeswoman Julie Davis said. In addition, the animal had no soup in its lungs, nor had it been cooked ? signs it had been dropped in the soup after its death, she said.

The company took its suspicions to prosecutors last week.

Patterson and her son had sought $500,000 from Cracker Barrel, Davis said.

Wow, that's a relief...that's the cracker barrel that I go to :1orglaugh

rofl really ? anyways they just got owned :)

Excellent.

Culinary forensics is the next big job market.

They're obviously money sucking deadbeats so they won't actually lose much, but that is going to be a hefty civil suit against them... looks like Ramen Noodles everyday from now on.

Bump for day crew

haha, that's awsome... fuckers like that need to be taught a lesson.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh good grief.

stupid mutherfuckers i saw this on the local news, its typical.

remember the woman who claimed she won the lottery

How can you claim to win lottery. .. must be brainless

it was rather funny she said she lost her ticket lol had a man hunt fo rher ticket haha

Thats what happens when she has a son at 16

What a couple dumbasses. The reason they are poor and have to try and come up with stupid scams to sue for money is because they are too retarded to have real jobs.

But then again maybe the mouse bumped his head hard and fell into the soup right before serving. :1orglaugh

wwwooooooooowwwwwww... very interesting story

I agree...so maybe she can get robbed next day!

They are nothing but bunch of exhortionist...

Anyway how will you know who's lyin' and not?

Way for a free meal!

yeah, how???

gross.

rat soup, anyone?

how does cracker barrel know that one of their kitchen workers didnt drop it in the soup

it could realistically have made its way into the soup by more people than just the mom and son do you guys realize how many people it takes to prepare something as simple as soup in a restaurant kitchen?

trust me i did a stint in a tgi fridays a few years ago took 6 people at least to cook a steak and then it gets handled by at least 3 more people once it is ready to be taken to your table :warning

fuckin scammers :BangBang: :BangBang:

:1orglaugh I remember that...

Can't believe how much money was spent over one dead mouse ...the autopsy alone would have cost big $$$ lol :1orglaugh