Oh rats! Rodent-in-food blackmail backfires

[THUNDERDUCK]

APPLETON, Wis. - A Wisconsin woman who tried to extort money from an upscale restaurant by putting a rat in her lunch has entered no-contest pleas to two criminal charges.

The Appleton Post-Crescent reported Debbie R. Miller, 43, was found guilty after she entered the pleas to a felony extortion charge and a misdemeanor for obstructing police.

Prosecutors said Miller planted the rat at The Seasons on April 17, 2008, and then demanded $500,000 from the owners. She threatened to alert the media.

Instead of paying, the owners turned the rat over to investigators for their insurance company. They determined it was a domestic rat that had been cooked in a microwave.

The restaurant doesn't use microwaves. Miller was arrested about three months later.

Sentencing is scheduled for March 8.

[kuro808]

They were really smart, good job for not going by her command, and she should have actually cooked it rather than nuke it

[JTRIX]

ridiculous woman... I'm proud for the owner of The Seasons for what he did.

[kuno_thunder]

Remind me not to use that lady's microwave.