Woman finds green worm in McDonald's burger
ST. PETERSBURG - You've heard of the worm in the apple. But the worm in the hamburger?
Here's the story:
On March 20, Murielle Glockson got really sick.
She said her fever spiked to nearly 104 degrees. She went to the emergency room and was admitted to the hospital for more than a week. She racked up more than $36,000 in medical bills while receiving treatment for a bacteria infection that threatened her kidneys and liver.
So what made her so ill?
That afternoon, Glockson, 70, a retiree from Largo, ate a McDonald's hamburger infected with "little green worms," she said.
Her husband, Henry, photographed the burger and one of the caterpillar-like worms, then brought the burger back to the restaurant, 5464 66th St. N. A manager took the hamburger back and offered Glockson a free one. She refused.
Hours later, Glockson said, she was violently ill. She was vomiting and suffering from head and stomach pains. That's when her daughter took her to the hospital.
"I thought I was a goner," Glockson said.
Earlier this month, Glockson and her husband filed a lawsuit against McDonald's, claiming the burger made her sick.
Glockson's lawyer, Charles Ehrlich, acknowledged that he can't prove that Glockson ate a worm, or even part of one. She found only the one worm in the burger and it was alive, intact and wiggling.
Glockson, who said she ate nearly all the burger before her husband saw that worm dangling from her mouth, thinks other worms were in the burger and that she ate them.
How else is there to explain how she became so ill? What are the chances, she says, that something else made her sick the very day she found a worm in her burger?
But McDonald's says there is no proof the burger caused Glockson's sickness. And some experts say they have doubts about that as well.
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