Snake found in a bottle of cold drink Dew

Next time you swig a bottle of soft drink, especially the cola varieties, make sure you get just what you have paid for: nothing more, nothing less.

On Friday night, a consumer, found to his horror a dead lizard in a bottle of Coca Cola that he had just drunk. A small bottle of the drink, which he purchased at a local tea-stall near Five Lights in West Mambalam came with value addition. Just as K.T.Varghese, who was on a business visit from Kozhikode, Kerala, was about to finish the drink, he says he found a dead lizard, stuck to the bottom, inside the bottle. "I could not make out that the lizard was in the bottle, because it was the same colour as the drink," Mr.Varghese claimed.

Taken aback, he confronted the owner of the tea stall with the bottle, who told him the bottle had come sealed in a batch (manufacturing date: 10 June, 2003) that was delivered by his regular dealer. The tea-shop owner tried to contact the dealer, but could not reach him.

Following this, Mr.Varghese who retained the bottle containing the dead lizard, rushed to a nearby private hospital for treatment. He was given drugs to wash out the stomach, but the memory of having drunk from the bottle containing the dead lizard kept him queasy all of the next day too.