Missing Mouse

If you look at a soda can label, you'll likely find plenty of unhealthy ingredients. Hopefully “decomposing mouse” isn't one of them. But that's what Ronald Ball says he found when he purchased a can of Mountain Dew from a vending machine. According to Ball, who sued PepsiCo for damages in excess of $50,000, he discovered the dead rodent only after the contaminated soda caused him to vomit.

The accusations were bad enough, but Pepsi's defense didn't do much to further its cause: The company said that if a mouse had in fact made it into the Mountain Dew, it would have dissolved by the time it reached the vending machine. The two sides eventually settled for an undisclosed sum in August.