Florida Woman Awarded $14 Million After Eating Ice Cream Contaminated with ‘Metal Shards and Nails’

A jury awarded a Florida woman $14 million for injuries after she unknowingly swallowed metal nails and shards concealed in an ice cream cone — creating complications that left her unable to have children.

In September of 2018, Brandy Buckley pulled up to the drive-through window of Bruster’s ice cream store – advertised with the sign out front as “Real Ice Cream” – and soon found out what she ordered did not live up to the sign’s name.

Buckley ordered a butter pecan ice cream and took a couple bites only to eventually discover it was laced with “multiple metal nails and/or metal shards,” according to her lawsuit filed in 2019 in Brevard County state court.

The Palm Bay woman didn’t realize the problem at first when she took a big bite.

“When I did swallow, I did feel something in my throat that kind of got stuck,”