TEXAS: Lockhart family finds bullet in rump roast - (KXAN.com)
March 13, 2008 – 8:34 pmA Lockhart family got more than they bargained for when they purchased a rump roast from a Sam’s Club in San Marcos.
The couple said they were shocked to see the piece of meat contained more than a healthy dose of iron; it also contained a bullet full of lead.
Angie Caruso Hernandez was quoted as saying, “I noticed this little brown mark that’s right in here, OK, and at first I just thought it was dye. I wanted to see what it was underneath, so I had taken a knife, and I hit something hard. At that point I flipped it over, and the bullet was right in here, and I stuck it in there, and it popped right out onto the counter.”
The story says that the Hernandez family said they have spoken to the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and no one had an answer […]
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