These sorts of things happen a lot and most companies will just settle as long as the media hasn't been contacted once you contact the media they will fight it and they usually win since most claims of dead mice are bogus.

I have had two such incidents. Back in the seventies, I bought a bottle of Coke that turned out to have a bandaid (used) in it. I took it back to the store and asked for another, and the guy gave me a six-pack for free. No big deal.
The other was one of those huge cans of Colt45 - when I got to the last gulp, there was a nasty presence in my mouth, and I spat out this weird, gelatinous THING - I have no idea what it was, but it looked like a miniature fetus. Fortunately, I had already consumed the contents of two such cans, so I wasn't particularly upset.
Pointless stories, Bro.

Even if there was mouse when filling it, the checkweigher would catch it, since last time I checked mouse is denser than soda.

You forgot to rule out intentional product tampering by a disgruntled employee!

/still thinks it is a bogus claim

If anything, the presence of a mouse would improve both the taste and nutritional value of Mountain Dew.

Bob and Doug MacKenzie already tried this and it didn't work.

bow: This is why I drink Diet Pepsi and not Mountain Dew.

Well, bad news: A dead mouse would become gelatinous in Diet Pepsi, as well. And probably aspartame speeds up the process.

Radioactive Ass: BohemianGraham: I'll be drinking gelatinous mouse is if I put it in the bottle myself, which I don't plan on doing

I think that you should take one for the team and see how long it takes before the rodent becomes unrecognizable. Film it from the start and then put it on YouTube...



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RobSeace: Huh. I wonder if that's what the gelatinous substance was that I once found in a bottle of Coke (ages ago, when glass bottled Coke was more commonplace than canned, real sugar was still used without needing to buy Mexican Coke, and New Coke hadn't even been heard of yet)... Silly me, I was delighted with the free cases they sent me coupons for after sending in a simple complaint, without needing to sue them for a ton of money...

The way I heard it, most Mexican Coke actually originates in Colombia.

Who farking cares? So you got a soda with a mouse in it - or so you claim.

Your life is not over. You didn't die. Give him a free soda without a mouse. Problem solved.

Roook: This might be the most disgusting story I've heard all year.

Well, we're only on our third day of the year. Give it time.

/Story was extremely disgusting.

SoothinglyDeranged: Chariset: Asa Phelps: they didn't say it would dissolve, or that you wouldn't notice - they said it would become gelatinous.

HOW DOES ANYONE LEARN THAT??!!

It's called chemistry and some people understand it.

It works, biatches

If this was a Krusty brand soda, I can hear him saying there can't be a mouse as the rats eat all the mice in the bottling plant.

finnished: Even if there was mouse when filling it, the checkweigher would catch it, since last time I checked mouse is denser than soda.

I have some half full Pepsi cans that would disprove your faith in the check weight.

But the story is still bullshiat.

Captain James T. Smirk: Seriously, what I meant was, you've never broken the pop top off of the can while drinking it, either accidentally or just while fiddling with it, and then dropped it in the can? It's a hell of an effort to get it back out. It just kind of rattles around in there.

Which still ignores the fact the mouse would not have been able to get in the can at the plant and still be in it after canning. If you've ever seen the process it's just not possible.

No need to walk, no need to feed
Satisfaction guaranteed

Last dead mouse, but I'll get more
I'm a business man and an entrepreneur
Folks say I'm nuts but they can say what they please
You gotta be crazy with prices like these

Brawndo: If this was a Krusty brand soda, I can hear him saying there can't be a mouse as the rats eat all the mice in the bottling plant.

I was once in a factory that made the dyes for automobile paint. It was funny to see rats of various colors running around in their warehouse.

SharkTrager: Captain James T. Smirk: Seriously, what I meant was, you've never broken the pop top off of the can while drinking it, either accidentally or just while fiddling with it, and then dropped it in the can? It's a hell of an effort to get it back out. It just kind of rattles around in there.

Which still ignores the fact the mouse would not have been able to get in the can at the plant and still be in it after canning. If you've ever seen the process it's just not possible.

This.

The cans are created, filled, and topped extremely fast and the process is so automated, there is little room for a live mouse to even be on the machine, let alone where it could casually fall into the can at filling.

Crap in the bottom of old glass bottles, though, seems more likely. Especially since they're reused.

SharkTrager: finnished: Even if there was mouse when filling it, the checkweigher would catch it, since last time I checked mouse is denser than soda.

I have some half full Pepsi cans that would disprove your faith in the check weight.

But the story is still bullshiat.

They probably leaked after filling... I have some Coke cans that definitely were full when I got them, but now are only half full, if that. No signs of leakage on the outside.

Riche: Either way, it would have to be a pretty exact scale to notice.

You'd be surprised.

Zantar is a gelatinous cube that eats warriors in a village. If you eat a chieftain, you go up a level. Beauty is, you can't get to the next level, so the kids keep coughing up quarters!

Roook: This might be the most disgusting story I've heard all year.

Take heart. It's unpossible for a mouse to get into a can of soda in the factory. The chambers where topless cans' lids are added are pressurized to many atmospheres. If a mouse were to somehow get inside one of those chambers (which are 100% automated by machinery) it'd never survive long enough to get into a can, which are on conveyor belts, moving them swiftly. There'd be no carbonation bubbles in the topless cans because the air pressure prevents the gas from expanding to float to the top. Then the tops of the cans are 'slammed' onto the set of cans and sealed.

/people who make these claims are absolutely clueless to how cans of soda are manufactured and are looking for a quick buck

I bought a can of Dew for nostalgia a while back. I didn't recall it being painful to drink, but it was.

urban.derelict: Take heart. It's unpossible for a mouse to get into a can of soda in the factory. The chambers where topless cans' lids are added are pressurized to many atmospheres. If a mouse were to somehow get inside one of those chambers (which are 100% automated by machinery) it'd never survive long enough to get into a can, which are on conveyor belts, moving them swiftly. There'd be no carbonation bubbles in the topless cans because the air pressure prevents the gas from expanding to float to the top. Then the tops of the cans are 'slammed' onto the set of cans and sealed.

how do the cans get into these chambers then?

I worked on a can and bottling line, there was no pressurized chamber since an airlock would kind of put a crimp in continuous production. A single can filler (most plants use multiples) can fill well over 1200 cans in a minute. Those cans take up a lot of space very quickly.

I'm not saying it's impossible but either the whole line is pressurized or there is a huge overflow area to permit an airlock type mechanism to do it's thing.

Ewww, blergh.

I'll take the crab juice.

csb from High School!

In our shop, we had a soda machine. We also had all of the tools normally (or not normally - we were an oddly well-stocked school) found in a machine shop. We also had rednecks. Nearly a thousand redneck teenagers.

So one day a student went to get a pepsi, but mountain dew came out instead. She decided to drink it anyway... took a sip, made a face, and handed it to her friend to see if it tasted weird to her. The friend (who happened to be the captain of the cheerleading squad) *chugged* it... and immediately started throwing up foamy, bloody vomit.

She was rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile, the teacher examined the mountain dew bottle... and noticed it appeared to have a patched hole in the bottom. He eventually managed to piece together that someone had popped open the can, emptied the soda, refilled it with comit cleaner, and shoved it back into the soda machine (in the wrong spot, hence the mountain dew from the pepsi button).

What was my point? Oh, yes! Entirely possible it could have been put in there after the fact by some douchebag.

Oh, and link to the news article to prove it's not just a csb: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/11/two-teens-accused-of-pop- can-tering/

(yes, the Kayla in the story is the same Kayla who is now a Tampa Bay Bucs cheerleader)

Buh, messed up that link. Here (new window)

Um, ewwww. Ewww, ewww, ewwwww.

Ewww.

"gelatinous mouse" another great fark handle

I find it odd that the man didn't notice the movement of a solid object inside the can when it was tilted.

The Loaf: It's almost as if mixing CO2 and water creates some kind of carbonic acid......

Or that phosphoric acid is added to give it more of a kick.

/love the burn!

Pepsi's expert says the mouse would have become a "jelly like" substance

I have no mouse and I must scream

Captain James T. Smirk: smitty04: Captain James T. Smirk: Try getting the broken pop-top out of the can and then tell me that holding it upside down definitely gets everything out.

The top is applied immediately after filling and the pop-top is part of the lid until you open it.

I had no idea! You see, I've had no experience with soda cans at all, coming from America where we hardly ever see the things.

Seriously, what I meant was, you've never broken the pop top off of the can while drinking it, either accidentally or just while fiddling with it, and then dropped it in the can? It's a hell of an effort to get it back out. It just kind of rattles around in there.

Seriously? Back when I was a kid (and walked uphill to and from school) we sometimes dropped the pop-top back into our cans. In fact, that was the civilized thing to do. Otherwise you'd have to litter and I frown on that.

And I can say that I've never broken a pop-top off a can without meaning to do so and there's really no reason to do so. Soda-can technology has progressed. Embrace it. And no, there aren't thousands of kids who grew up in the '70s with mutilated tongues from pop tops.

teto85: Sodapop is poison.

"Sodapop" lol

Chariset: Asa Phelps: they didn't say it would dissolve, or that you wouldn't notice - they said it would become gelatinous.

HOW DOES ANYONE LEARN THAT??!!

Probably by testing after a previous such fake lawsuit.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: That's disgusting. Who the hell wants to put acid into their stomach. Eww.

i do hope you're joking. i understand if someone has an aversion to soda pop, but to consume NO acid means no consumption of citrus or many other healthy things that naturally are acidic.

fat boy: Freestyle Coke machines do not have mouse flavor

just 2 weeks ago i finally went to firehouse subs to eat and have my first freestyle experience. i now want that machine in my kitchen! you can keep the coke classic though, that crap is nasty!

teto85: Sodapop is poison.

So is water.

/dose makes the poison

Jim_Callahan: Um, actually that sounds like it's a legitimate reason for dismissal. The mouse looked absolutely nothing like it should have had it been in mild acidbase for months, therefore the plaintiff likely planted it there for the sole purpose of starting the lawsuit.

Honestly, if they can back that up (and it's not hard, plenty of mice and soda around) they're kind of being nice by not countersuing for legal harassment.

FTFY

Please ignore my post above. Facts are wrong.

browser_snake: Please ignore my post above. Facts are wrong.

yeah i'm by far no chemist but i was suspect of your claim.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: bungle_jr: DammitIForgotMyLogin: That's disgusting. Who the hell wants to put acid into their stomach. Eww.

i do hope you're joking. i understand if someone has an aversion to soda pop, but to consume NO acid means no consumption of citrus or many other healthy things that naturally are acidic.

Yeah, I steer clear of those things as well, everybody knows that the lining of the stomach isn't designed to cope with anything acidic. How else do you think we get ulcers?


The scary thing is, there's probably idiots who actually believe this

same or worse idiots who are preaching against fruit and fruit juices for kids due to childhood obesity (omg natural sugar has calories!!!!) and for adults due to tooth enamel loss (can't be bothered to brush or use listerine a couple of times a day to get the acid and the food for bacteria off the teeth)

I wonder if anyone asked the mouse what it thought? Poor Mice. Always getting a bum rap for turning up in Soda cans.

//why I only drink my moutain dew in bottles.....