A now former employee at a McDonald’s in Philadelphia claims he saw the rodent while on the job and whipped out his cell phone camera.
He’s talking only to Fox about what his manager
told him to do with that food.
The man says this happened when he worked for the McDonald’s on Stenton Avenue in the Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane section. The Fox 29 viewer contacted us because he says he was so disturbed by what was happening, he wanted to warn customers:
In the video is a bag of hamburger buns used to make Big Macs. Inside that bag, a mouse is scurrying around, making contact with who knows how many buns. You can see the mouse in the raw video.
“That wasn’t the first time. That was about the sixth or seventh time. That’s what made me like, I got to get video of this,” said Karruim Demaio, the former employee.
Demaio tells us he shot the video with his cellphone camera on November 14th, in the back storage room of this McDonald’s on Stenton Avenue at Haines, in West Oak Lane.
“I was going back there to get something else and I heard some rustling, so I turned around, and I look, I seen a mouse inside the bread. Not on top of the package, but inside of the package,” he said.
In the video, the brown object in the center- right of the screen is apparent. You can see the tail come into focus as the mouse squirms between the buns.
“I was working there from October of 2010 to January of this year. There hasn’t been a time when we couldn’t go in the back and see mouse droppings on the bread,” Demaio said. Demaio told Fox 29 his boss ordered employees to brush off the droppings, and serve the bread
to customers.
Fox 29 spoke to another former employee who did not want to be identified. He says he was fired for not showing up to work. That employee confirmed what Demaio told us. What’s more, that former employee says he once saw the general manager brush off the
droppings herself.
