Woman sues KFC over son's rat scare

A Hong Kong woman has sued US fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken for compensation after a rat allegedly fell onto her two-year-old son and scratched his face in one of its Hong Kong branches, a newspaper reported today.

Chui Fung-fai, 36, said she and her son were eating at the KFC restaurant on July, 30, 2004, when a black rat suddenly jumped from a ventilation pipe onto the boy’s head and scratched his face, Ming Pao Daily News reported.