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    Ohio Big Boy worker charged with tainting coffee

    TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An employee at an Ohio Big Boy restaurant is charged with pouring animal medication into customer coffee with the intent to poison.

    The Blade newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/sRU1CO ) 36-year-old Edwin Ledgard told Toledo police that he had a delusion to kill customers.

    A police report says the Toledo man went to the Frisch's Big Boy on his day off on Friday and poured into a pot of coffee a drug called Dextran, which is used to treat anemia in baby pigs. Police say another worker at the restaurant saw what Ledgard was doing.

    Ledgard remains in jail Wednesday after being charged with contaminating a substance for human consumption. A judge set his bond at $100,000.

    A message seeking comment was left with his public defender on Wednesday.

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    Information from: The Blade, http://www.toledoblade.com/

     
    • NONE  •  Dallas, United States  •  6 mths ago
      spitting in the hamburgers, peeing in the tea, and poisoning the coffee....great reason to eat at home.....
      • Violet 6 mths ago
        you got that right!
    • It's Me  •  6 mths ago
      Regular, cream and sugar, hold the pig medication, please.
    • Pat Walsh  •  6 mths ago
      Its back to beer in the morning.
    • NONE  •  Dallas, United States  •  6 mths ago
      changes the taste of the cinnamon rolls completely.
    • Prometheus  •  Austin, United States  •  6 mths ago
      As an attempt at murder goes, this was staggeringly incompetent. Dextran has the same active ingredient as the Kefir, made from fermented camel's milk, which is commonly drunk in the Caucasus (it was drunk by Marco Polo.)
      • Desert 6 mths ago
        sounds wonderful...we will take your word for it!
      • Tom 6 mths ago
        Yeah, but look at what happened to Marco Polo. He's dead.
    • My View  •  6 mths ago
      Seriously, this guy is mentally ill if what he says is true. I hope a shrink takes a look at him to determine his sanity.
    • Grim Reaper  •  6 mths ago
      Dextran basically = glucose molecules with a specific arrangement. About as harmful orally as putting sugar in your coffee. Iron Dextran is used to treat anemia in humans.
      • reality 6 mths ago
        If anemic baby pigs can handle it, it's probably not going to kill a human.
      • whataboutit 6 mths ago
        Um yes, this was more than just sugar. There have been reported cases of fatal allergic reactions to this drug
      • Rawr 6 mths ago
        There have been reported cases of fatal allergic reactions to peanuts too. To normal people, peanuts and dextran will do nothing.
    • Sara  •  6 mths ago
      Makes you wonder how many times this happens and the guy doesn't get caught
    • afternoonchai  •  6 mths ago
      They should have made him drink the coffee as part of his punishment.
      • Prometheus 6 mths ago
        It would have done nothing to him. Dextran is a glucose (sugar) which occurs naturally in some beverages made by the herders in Russia.
    • Bahlzak  •  6 mths ago
      Another Ohio story? Is Ohio replacing California as the nut job state of the nation?
      • John 6 mths ago
        ohio sucks, worst state ever.
      • mm 6 mths ago
        The problem is with all the losers who move to California, not the other way around....
    • Gee Bee  •  6 mths ago
      I will make my own coffee, thank you
    • Spring  •  6 mths ago
      I see a few comments that Dextran really isn't that harmful to people, but the fact still remains that people want "coffee" in their "coffee" not an animal drug. This guy's obvious intent was to do people harm - minimal perhaps, but he was still up to no good and should be punished... maybe even slapped!!
    • jen kado  •  San Francisco, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Wow, just when i was talking about how theres no more bob's big boy the other day. "correction" nows their no mo' bob's big boy
    • reda surca  •  6 mths ago
      whatisitwithOhio?
    • whataboutit  •  6 mths ago
      You have to wonder what other stuff did he put in the food and drinks at this place and for how long? Everyone that ever when to this place will think about the time they got sick after eating there when he was working. Now he is crazy. Yeah like a fox.
    • kc  •  Dallas, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Camels? would you like one hump or two?
    • HunnyBee  •  6 mths ago
      Wait, WHAT? He tried poisoning random people and "A judge set his bond at $100,000 on Monday"???
    • POGO 3000  •  6 mths ago
      That Big Boys on Pleasant Valley Road, near Independence, Ohio, also had lousy coffee and cold hamburgers. My Mum and I went there to vent after my idiot sister Pamela caused such a fuss when I came home on leave from the USAF. Big Boys is a true greasy spoon with that funky fiberglass statue of the overweight white boy! Ugh, that place is awful!
    • David B  •  6 mths ago
      I'm glad there are no "Big Boys" around here.
    • Matt  •  Ashburn, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Holy Toledo!
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