Chick-Fil-A milkshake blamed for woman's heart attack 
 
 A former Texas resident claims in court that a cherry atop a Chick Fil-A milkshake like one of these caused her tooth and gum damage, ultimately leading to a heart attack. (File art) A former Texas resident claims in court that a cherry atop a Chick Fil-A milkshake like one of these caused her tooth and gum damage, ultimately leading to a heart attack. (File art) Photo: Screenshot From Twitter Photo: Screenshot From Twitter Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Chick-Fil-A milkshake blamed for woman's heart attack 1 / 4 Back to Gallery 
 
 A former Texas woman is suing the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain and its cherry supplier over a cherry pit she claims gave her tooth damage that led to a heart attack. 
 
 Cyndi Scruggs, who lived in the Dallas suburb of Plano at the time of the incident, said she bought a milkshake May 10 at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in nearby McKinney, according to the suit she filed Dec. 1 in Dallas County's 44th State District Court. 
 
 The shake was topped by whipped cream and a maraschino cherry, which she popped into her mouth. When she bit into the cherry, Scruggs said she discovered it had not been "properly de-pitted," the petition states. 
 
 The plaintiff, who now lives in Parker, Colo., said she fractured two teeth below the gum line and, an unspecified short time later, developed gum infection and sepsis. Scruggs later suffered a heart attack, according to the plaintiff's petition. Recently, documents state, she had the two broken teeth removed. 
 
 At the time of the incident, the restaurant received cherries from Dell's Maraschino Cherries Co. Inc. in New York, which is named as a defendant. 
 
 "Defendant Dell's Maraschino Cherries, as a producer, supplier and distributor of maraschino cherries to restaurants or food establishments throughout the United States, including Texas, failed to use that degree of care that would be used by a marschino cherry de-pitting owner or company of ordinary prudence under the same or similar circumstances," the petition states. 
 
 The plaintiff, represented by Dallas attorney Steven S. Schulte of the Turley Law Center, is seeking damages between $200,000 and $1 million. 

 Usually, if Chick-fil-A is in the news, it's because its chief operating officer said something dumb, or because someone decided, wisely, to try to fill his bath with Polynesian Sauce. This time, though, the fried chicken chain is accused of something much weirder than a little draconian gay hate: giving a woman a heart attack by failing to properly inspect their pitted maraschino cherries. 
 
 From the jump, the story is pretty strange. According to a petition filed in the Dallas County district court this week, a woman named Cyndi Scruggs went to the Chick-fil-A restaurant in McKinney to enjoy an ice cream milkshake. Like most milkshakes, Scruggs' was topped with a maraschino cherry and whipped cream. Like every eager milkshake drinker, Scruggs popped her cherry-on-top directly into her mouth, only to find that it still contained a large fragment of cherry pit. 
 
 Biting into an intact cherry pit caused Scruggs to fracture two teeth below the gumline, which led to infection and eventual sepsis. Soon after, Scruggs had a heart attack, which is closely linked by medical research to sepsis, an infection of the blood. The plaintiff -- she survived -- also recently had the two teeth extracted, and will need to undergo painful tooth implantation procedures in the near future. At the time of the incident, Scruggs was living in Plano, but she has since relocated to Parker, Colorado.
– In the strange-lawsuits department comes this from Texas: A woman is suing Chick-fil-A because she says one of the chain's cherry-topped milkshakes gave her a heart attack, reports the Houston Chronicle. Cyndi Scruggs purchased the shake from a location in McKinney, near Plano, on May 10. But when she put the maraschino cherry into her mouth, she discovered that it had not been "properly de-pitted," as the legalese of her petition states. When Scruggs chomped down on the pit, she fractured two teeth below the gumline. That led to gum infection and sepsis, which in turn led to a heart attack, according to her lawsuit. Scruggs, who has since moved to Colorado, is suing both the chain and its cherry supplier (Dell's Maraschino Cherries Co. Inc. in New York) for between $200,000 and $1 million to cover medical expenses, "physical pain, disfigurement, impairment, and mental anguish," reports the Dallas Observer. (A Nebraska man in 2013 sued Walmart, claiming one of its plastic bags ultimately led to his wife's death.)