[0:00] as if I needed more reasons to avoid
[0:02] eating at Arby's. I just learned about
[0:05] an ongoing case where a former Arby's
[0:08] manager spit in a customer's food, which
[0:11] they have video evidence to confirm the
[0:14] uh the spitting there and allegedly gave
[0:19] that customer herpes.
[0:22] That is unhinged.
[0:25] And I'm going to tell you something,
[0:26] sports fans. I'm not even that surprised
[0:29] to learn that from Arby's because if
[0:31] you've been around for a while, you
[0:33] might recall fourish years ago, Arby's
[0:37] waged viral warfare on me as well. When
[0:41] doing the hottest sandwich in the world,
[0:43] they served me a sandwich that was
[0:46] questionably cooked, and I'm using the
[0:48] word cooked very loosey goosey because
[0:50] that chicken sandwich was [ __ ] pink.
[0:53] And I had already eaten some of it when
[0:55] I noticed they were doing this whole,
[0:57] "We've got the hottest chicken sandwich
[0:59] ever. Get ready to fill your diaper with
[1:01] fear when you try this puppy." But it
[1:04] was actually just a Trojan horse to
[1:05] introduce Salmonella into my system.
[1:08] Luckily, I didn't get devastatingly ill
[1:10] or anything, but I definitely could
[1:11] have. Improperly prepared poultry is not
[1:14] something you [ __ ] around with. And
[1:15] Arby's was back there like diabolically
[1:19] concocting this, you know, weapon
[1:22] against me. So, I don't love Arby's. I
[1:26] feel like most people probably don't
[1:28] either. You'd have to really be cruising
[1:30] Arkham Asylum before you found a single
[1:33] Arby's enthusiast. So, that being said,
[1:36] I already didn't like Arby's and had no
[1:38] plans of going there. But after seeing
[1:40] this story, you can bet your sweet bippy
[1:42] you won't be catching me ever getting
[1:45] the rumbly tummy that only Arby's can
[1:48] fix.
[1:49] >> Now, to a story we all wish would be
[1:51] just a gross urban legend. But in
[1:54] McCerten County, a former Arby's manager
[1:56] is charged with felony poisoning,
[1:58] accused of spitting in a woman's food
[2:01] and giving her herpes as a result. After
[2:04] a long night bartending, Jennica Church
[2:06] stopped at Arby's and Broken Bow.
[2:08] >> It was taking a little bit of time.
[2:10] Thought they were probably mad at me cuz
[2:12] it was right about to close. Jennica
[2:14] said she had some history with Amanda
[2:16] Hendrickx, the manager, but nothing
[2:18] major. She went home, ate, and shared
[2:21] sandwiches with her father-in-law and
[2:23] grandmother-in-law. Jennica, her
[2:24] husband, the kids, and the grandparents
[2:27] all live together.
[2:28] >> It's just so evil to do some [ __ ] like
[2:31] this. I'm already a hypochondric. So,
[2:33] every time I order out, there is always
[2:35] that like lingering anxiety about like,
[2:39] well, what if they spit in my food? And
[2:41] it has never even crossed my mind that
[2:44] if that happened, they could give me
[2:47] herpes. I've always just thought like,
[2:48] oh, if that happens, it's going to be
[2:50] yucky. Ew. It's going to be gross. But
[2:52] at least it won't be Arby's. But now the
[2:55] game has changed. You can't put the
[2:57] toothpaste back in the tube. If this is
[3:00] true that her spitting in the food,
[3:02] which that part isn't really up for
[3:04] debate, there's no big dispute there.
[3:06] Apparently, they have video evidence
[3:08] showing her spitting in it. But what is
[3:10] still up in the air is whether or not
[3:12] that spit led to her contracting herpes
[3:14] from it. But if that is true, that sh
[3:18] that sends shivers down my spine. That
[3:20] is horrifying. So, I looked it up to see
[3:23] if this is like a well-known
[3:25] transmission here, like saliva on food
[3:29] transmitting herpes to someone else.
[3:31] Like, cuz I I had remembered hearing
[3:33] like uh transmitting herpes through
[3:35] sharing drinks is like not as high risk
[3:38] as you would expect. Like, it's kind of
[3:40] like low risk. So, I looked it up for
[3:42] food cuz I thought it'd be even less
[3:43] risk because especially on warm food or
[3:45] something, you would think that it would
[3:46] make it inactive pretty quickly. But it
[3:49] is possible, but it is very rare. Which
[3:52] would explain why out of all the food
[3:54] that I guess she spit on that night,
[3:56] only one of the people who consumed it
[3:58] got it. The others must have been
[4:01] luckier in that regard. So, from what I
[4:04] can tell from like the bits and pieces I
[4:06] was looking up about it, it can happen,
[4:08] but it's so exceedingly rare that
[4:10] there's just not even a whole lot of
[4:11] like information on it cuz it's not a
[4:14] common means of transmission, like
[4:17] spitting on food.
[4:18] >> After that night, Jennica's mouth began
[4:20] to flare up like it never had before.
[4:23] The doctor diagnosed her with herpes.
[4:26] >> Several times a week, I get a flare up.
[4:30] It goes all the way up to the top of my
[4:32] eye. My eye twitches. I mean, it's very
[4:35] painful. You're probably wondering, how
[4:37] could she possibly connect herpes to
[4:40] Arby's?
[4:41] >> I'll be honest, not exactly the Charles
[4:43] Xavier level mind reading there from the
[4:45] host because I've always had a hunch
[4:47] that if there ever was going to be some
[4:49] kind of crazy outbreak, some kind of,
[4:53] you know, new plague, it might just
[4:56] happen at Arby's. Like the [ __ ] tea
[4:58] virus gets unleashed through Arby's
[5:00] diabolically trash garbage [ __ ]
[5:03] sludge that they serve to human beings.
[5:05] >> Broken Bow is a small town. Jennica says
[5:09] Amanda Hendris was bragging about
[5:11] spitting in her sandwiches that night
[5:14] and Jennica's daughter heard the story.
[5:16] >> According to the affidavit, Brokenbo
[5:18] police say they pulled cameras and saw
[5:21] Amanda spitting in the food.
[5:23] >> What a vile person. A to even do this
[5:27] act in the first place of spitting in
[5:29] the food and B to then start bragging
[5:32] about it. All right, everyone. All
[5:33] right. Yeah. Yeah. Hold your applause. I
[5:36] spit in their food. I did it. I know.
[5:38] Look, I'm not a hero. No autographs
[5:40] today. No. No. Okay. You can hoist me on
[5:42] your shoulders and carry me out like I
[5:43] just scored the gamewinning touchdown.
[5:45] Like, what what is there to brag about?
[5:47] That is disgusting. Now again, it's not
[5:50] clear whether or not she actually
[5:52] transmitted herpes through this because
[5:55] that is not proven yet, but it's still a
[5:58] gross, unacceptable thing to do. And it
[6:00] is still a crime to spit in food like
[6:02] that. That is a very serious crime,
[6:05] actually. So regardless, what she's done
[6:08] here is still incredibly [ __ ] up. Now,
[6:12] what I will say is apparently she spit
[6:15] in her order, and this was food that was
[6:18] shared with multiple people, her and
[6:20] family, and out of all of them, she's
[6:23] the only one that got herpes from it,
[6:25] allegedly. So that leads me to believe
[6:29] that maybe the other family members got
[6:30] extremely lucky. Or maybe she put a
[6:32] little extra secret sauce here, the
[6:34] Krabby Patty secret formula, hawkked an
[6:36] extra lugie on her sandwich in
[6:38] particular to really seal the deal. or,
[6:42] and this is me just now spitballing,
[6:45] there is a chance that since these two
[6:48] apparently had a little bit of history,
[6:50] it's not clear to what extent, but
[6:52] according to this news report, these two
[6:55] knew each other and did have, I guess, a
[6:57] bit of friction history between them.
[6:59] Maybe after her daughter heard the
[7:02] Arby's manager bragging about spitting
[7:04] in the food, she realized that this is a
[7:06] very good opportunity to, you know,
[7:09] capitalize off that cuz that is a crime
[7:12] 1,000% and she should go after her for
[7:15] that regardless. And I'm really
[7:17] interested to see how this plays out if
[7:19] they prove that the herpes is directly
[7:23] from her spitting in that food. Cuz
[7:25] again, from everything I've read, that
[7:26] is a very very very very rare way of
[7:30] transmitting herpes. And I imagine like
[7:33] it would be tough to investigate, but
[7:36] like if the Arby's manager doesn't have
[7:38] herpes, that probably puts the kibos on
[7:41] it right away. Or if they find evidence
[7:43] that she had already had herpes before
[7:45] this bit, then that too. But I'm willing
[7:47] to believe her story because she has
[7:50] been wronged and it feels like it'd be a
[7:53] weird thing to include in there if it
[7:56] was just untrue. So, I I'm just very
[7:59] curious to see how this plays out as
[8:00] they continue to investigate the case.
[8:03] >> She's charged with felony poisoning with
[8:05] intent to injure. A warrant has been
[8:07] issued for her arrest. Jennica and her
[8:09] family filed a lawsuit against Amanda,
[8:12] Arby's, and affiliated restaurant
[8:13] groups, claiming extreme anxiety,
[8:16] emotional distress, and fear of
[8:18] infection. Jennica fears it'll impact
[8:21] her service industry work.
[8:22] >> Yeah, that makes sense because her life
[8:24] has now been directly impacted in a
[8:27] wildly detrimental way as a result of
[8:29] this behavior from the former Arby's
[8:32] manager. So, that that checks out. I it
[8:35] never even crossed my mind as a
[8:37] possibility. And it's something they
[8:38] mention in this interview here about
[8:40] like, oh, you hear about, you know,
[8:42] workers spitting in food if they're
[8:44] upset or something, but I've never seen
[8:45] it happen. I wouldn't have, you know,
[8:46] thought something like this was possible
[8:48] until it happened to her. It is just
[8:51] terrible really. And she talks about how
[8:54] it could like impact her work in the
[8:55] service industry because she'd worry
[8:57] about like having, you know, herpes
[9:00] flare up, you know, no one wanting to
[9:03] like hire her, have her work during that
[9:04] flare up because they wouldn't want her
[9:06] handling food. Customers would be
[9:07] uncomfortable. So, it's pretty obvious
[9:11] that her life is now something that has
[9:14] changed as a result of allegedly being
[9:18] poisoned by the [ __ ] Arby's manager
[9:20] Here.