Woman says foreign object was inside her candy bar
Lab analysis is being conducted on the remains of a Baby Ruth candy bar which a local woman said made her ill after she bit into a foreign object inside the candy.
“It made me sick, gave me a migraine and messed up my eyesight for a while,” said Barbara Fleisher of the incident which occurred recently. “Whatever it was had a bitter taste. I spit it out but I must have swallowed a little of it.”
Fleisher said she bought the Baby Ruth from a local store, noting the package appeared to be fully sealed before she opened it, downplaying the possibility of local tampering.
Fleisher said she knew immediately something was wrong when she bit into the bar.
“It looked like some kind of triangular, white pill,” Fleisher said.
While police agree the foreign object inside the remains of the candy bar is triangular and white, they do not believe it is a pill.
“There’s some kind of foreign object inside there,” said McMinnville Police Investigator Lt. Derwin Adcock, who at first thought perhaps it was a case of candy going bad. However, investigators agreed there is some kind of foreign object in the candy.
“We’ve sent it off to the lab for analysis so it will be impossible to say what it is until we get a report back,” Adcock said.
Fleisher said she weathered the illness she believes was caused by the candy, noting she did not go to the hospital because she has had problems with her TennCare coverage and could not afford medical treatment herself.
Regardless of what lab tests show, Fleisher said she intends to sue Baby Ruth for whatever made her sick inside the candy bar. Fleisher said she has already contacted an attorney.
“I can’t believe what happened,” Fleisher said. “All I was doing was eating a candy bar and it could have killed me.”