Heineken customer sues after he allegedly got violently ill from drinking beer with 2 dead geckos
Man says beer had a ‘foul taste’ and the incident caused him to develop PTSD
By Kate Taylor
A man is suing Heineken and American retail company Kroger after he says he drank a beer with two geckos sealed inside.
In a lawsuit filed last week, George Toubbeh claims he purchased cans of Heineken beer from a Ralph’s Grocery (a regional grocery chain owned by Kroger) in Fountain Valley, California. Toubbeh drank a can of the beer in August 2015, noticing a “foul taste.”
Toubbeh then says he immediately experienced severe abdominal pain and began vomiting. His daughter allegedly examined the can and found two geckos inside.
“When discovered, the geckos had not been decomposed at all and were likely alive when the beer was poured and sealed into the cans in the bottling and/or canning facility,” the suit reads. “Based upon information and belief, the subject geckos likely got into the Heineken canning facility and into a can before the Heineken beer was poured and the top was sealed.”
Toubbeh was violently ill and had to visit the emergency room, the suit claims, experiencing “severe stomach pains and cramps, loss of sensation, hyperactive bowel movements, and nearly complete loss of appetite” in the days following the incident.
