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Tails you lose
“He planted the tail and thought he could get away with it. The next day he was on the phone with McDonald's. We had him on tape demanding money.”
-- Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonard Lato on Dr. Michael Zanakis, who took a rat's tail from the medical research laboratory where he worked, fried it up, then placed it in a package of french fries he bought at a Long Island McDonald's. A jury convicted Zanakis of trying to scam McDonald's out of $5 million by claiming his 2-year-old son had bitten into and swallowed part of the tail. Quoted in CNN Online.
SALON | Dec. 17, 1997

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` Tails you lose “He planted the tail and thought he could get away with it. The next day he was on the phone with McDonald's. We had him on tape demanding money.” -- Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonard Lato on Dr. Michael Zanakis, who took a rat's tail from the medical research laboratory where he worked, fried it up, then placed it in a package of french fries he bought at a Long Island McDonald's. A jury convicted Zanakis of trying to scam McDonald's out of $5 million by claiming his 2-year-old son had bitten into and swallowed part of the tail. Quoted in CNN Online. SALON \| Dec. 17, 1997