Wednesday February 15, 2012

Nail found in ham at Saitama supermarket

SAITAMA —

Police on Tuesday said a nail was found in ham sold at a supermarket in Toda City, Saitama Prefecture, on Monday afternoon.

According to police, a female customer found the nail in the ham at the supermarket around 4 p.m. and the shop called police. Police said the nail is about 1.2 cm long and was stuck into the vacuumed-packed ham. The shop manager told police they didn’t find anything suspicious when they checked the products on Saturday.

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    muchogrande

    Hope they nail the swine who did this.

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    Altria

    The police should pin down the manager - maybe he'll squeal.

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    rjd_jr

    This is probably a copy cat crime, sometimes happens when media reports one type of incident.

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    telecasterplayer

    Anyone have any idea why there's so much product-tampering in Japan?

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    Fair dinkum!

    They'll have to hammer out this one to nail the culprit.

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    Wakarimasen

    A lot of the local mass produced stuff doesn't taste much better than nails (in fish sauce).

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    capone

    saitama gets my vote for 'weirdest prefecture'

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    VoXman

    Ok I'll say it. It's a conspiracy by the American Pig producers to open the Japanese pork market.....tee hee

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    Betting

    Another nail in the coffin for the Japanese food industry (sorry had to say this!! haha!!).

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