Washington woman who concocted hoax about glass shard in bottled water gets jail time

Bottled water hoax leads to jail for Wash. woman

SEATTLE — A woman has been sentenced to jail for a hoax in which she claimed her daughter was injured by a glass shard in a bottle of water.

Kelsey Macom claimed in April 2008 that her 7-year-old daughter was cut by a piece of glass in a bottle of Dasani water, a Coca-Cola product. She then demanded $3,000 from Coke to settle the dispute.

Macom said her daughter’s throat had been cut so badly that she couldn’t eat hard foods and was coughing up blood.

The former Better Business Bureau employee was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three months of home detention.

The federal judge in the case described the crime as “despicable,” and prosecutors said Macom used her job at the Better Business Bureau as a way to get Coke to give her money.