Women Claims Seeing Rats at McDonald's

New Haven,CT,USA - A Hamden woman claims she saw rats running around a local McDonald's but the restaurant manager insists she's exaggerating.

It was Saturday evening when Sue Calistro, her boyfriend and his 3-year-old were at the McDonald's in the Hamden Mart on Dixwell Avenue sitting in the child's play area when she says she spotted something.

"We looked down, a rat goes, runs over my foot, runs into the corner," Calistro, of Branford, said. "And there was about two or three of them running around one way and then the other co-worker saw a couple on the other end so at that point, we just grabbed the kids, left."

Surprised, horrified, Calistro called the manager and McDonald's corporation.

"They claimed it was from the doors being left open, from garbage around the building, you know, basically blaming it on customers when they come in, leaving the doors open too long," she said.

She says, they told her, what she saw were perhaps, some mice. "A mouse is about maybe an inch, inch and a half and they were a good three to four, maybe five inches," Calistro said.

Either way, she called a local news station, and they arrived at the store in question they did not see any rodents. The manager said they called an exterminator Monday morning after getting Calistro's complaint. But he says, they do not have a problem with rodents here and have passed all health inspections.

Still, Sue says, it's the last time she'll head to that McDonald's for a bite to eat.