Lorainite says she plans to sue over tooth in pie

LORAIN — When 49-year-old Carmen Childress ordered a pizza Sunday night, the free topping she received was nothing to smile about.

Childress called police shortly after 8 p.m., claiming to have found a human tooth in her extra-large pepperoni and cheese pizza from the Marco’s Pizza on Leavitt Road.

“I didn’t know what it was I was biting into, but it was hard,” she said. “When I looked at it, I realized it was a tooth, and I knew it wasn’t mine.”

After finding the tooth, Childress’ boyfriend and the couple they were eating with scoured the pizza for any other unsavory toppings and then called the Lorain City Health Department after Marco’s Pizza employees denied being responsible for the tooth, according to the police report.

“I didn’t know what to do or how to react,” Childress said. “I had all kinds of crazy thoughts — I was just emotional.”

Police were subsequently contacted and arrived to recover what appeared to be a full-size human tooth, the report said, and took it into evidence.

They then followed up with Marco’s Pizza where they made contact with the restaurant’s assistant manager who said there was no employee on duty that had lost a tooth, nor had any other situation arisen where a tooth would be placed into any food product, the report said.

The employee who had delivered the pizza was also at the restaurant and told police that her delivery was like any other, with the exception that the residents had offered her beer, which she politely declined, the report said.

A Marco’s Pizza employee reached by phone Monday referred comment to the restaurant’s corporate office, which couldn’t be reached.

Childress said she has frozen the pizza with plans to hand-deliver it to an attorney sometime today, so a lawsuit can be filed.

“I thought I would just order a pizza,” she said. “I didn’t think it would turn into this.”

Contact Stephen Szucs at 329-7129 or sszucs@chroniclet.com.

 

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