'Boys aide files suit charging rat in salad

Philadelphia Daily News, October, 2006

Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Todd Haley is suing a suburban McDonald's, claiming his wife and the family's live-in baby-sitter found a dead rat in a salad they took home and began to eat. The lawsuit filed yesterday in state district court seeks $1.7 million in damages, the Dallas Morning News reported on its Web site.

In addition to Haley, the Cowboys' passing game coordinator who got in a well-publicized shouting match with receiver Terrell Owens earlier this month, the suit was also filed on behalf of his wife Christine and the family's au pair, Kathryn Kelley. A message left for McDonald's Corp. spokesman Walt Riker last evening was not immediately returned. According to the lawsuit, Christine Haley and Kelley had eaten part of the salad purchased June 5 at a...