video platform video management video solutions video player Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BELLEVILLE, Ill., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The manufacturer of Mountain Dew said an Illinois man could not have found a mouse in a can of the beverage because the rodent would have dissolved. Pepsi Co. said in its response to a lawsuit filed by Ronald Ball in 2009 that the oil worker could not have gagged on a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew because the beverage would have dissolved the rodent into "a jelly-like substance" before it even reached the vending machine, ABC News reported Tuesday. Advertisement Samantha Unsell, an attorney for Ball, said Pepsi officials took the mouse and the evidence apparently has since been destroyed. She said Pepsi's latest legal motion to have the case dismissed is "a poor dissent." "It doesn't say a lot about their product," Unsell said. Lawyers for Pepsi declined to comment, ABC said. Read More McDonald's begins offering Pepsi products Judge tosses charges in genital shooting Vandals post video of crimes on YouTube Stolen 'E.T.' statue back at home Bank left unlocked for two days