Waiter spit in customer's drink at Chili's

A waiter at a Chili’s restaurant in upstate New York got caught spitting in a customer’s drink — after a state police crime lab tested his DNA to prove it months later.
A process usually used for solving the most serious of crimes outed waiter Gregory Lamica as a spiteful spitter. He eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
A married couple, Ken Yerdon and Julie Aluzzo-Yerdon, suspected the spitting after eating at a Chili’s in Clay, a Syracuse suburb, where they are both regulars.
The couple had a few complaints about undercooked food and incomplete orders, and thought their waiter was getting testy with them.
“We were patient with him, but we could tell he was annoyed with us,” Aluzzo-Yerdon told the paper.
“All Ken said to him was, ‘Are you OK? Have we done something to offend you?’ And he said, ‘Oh, no, no.”
The final straw appeared to be a back-and-forth confusion about the couple’s request for drink refills in to-go containers. Lamica begrudgingly obliged, but wouldn’t make eye contact, the couple said.
On the way home, Yerdon took only two sips before tasting something amiss in his soda.
“I saw the spit in the cup,” he told the paper. “It wasn’t regular spit either. It was definitely a loogie.”
They took a picture of it, complained to managers and managed to get a refund and some coupons, but they couldn’t get anyone — including Lamica — to admit the waiter's gross guilt.
The couple eventually called state police, and a trooper took a swab of saliva from Lamica.
The results came in three months later: Lamica’s spit was it. He finally fessed up upon being brought to a police station to see the DNA results. He was fined $125 after pleading guilty in February.Yerdon feared he had contracted HIV or hepatitis from the loogie, even though HIV cannot be transmitted through saliva. He eventually tested negative for both, but the couple told the Post-Standard they are still planning to sue Lamica and the Chili’s owners over psychological trauma they endured during the six months Yerdon awaited his results.