Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Sting Crumbly Cheese Incident

Caeca invidia est in latin means "envy is blind" ---

In an unusual case of mistaken identity, a woman who thought a block of
white cheese was cocaine is charged with trying to hire a hit man to rob and
kill four men. The woman also was mistaken about the hit man. He turned out to
be an undercover police officer.

(...) According to police, Booth was in the Memphis home of the four
intended victims last week when she mistook a block of queso fresco cheese for
cocaine _ inspiring the idea to hire someone to break into the home, take the
drugs, and kill the men.
An informant described the plot to police, who
arranged a meeting between Booth and the undercover officer.
The undercover
officer gave Booth some nonfunctioning handguns, bought ammunition for her
because she was too young, and the two proceeded to the home under police
surveillance.
Booth told the officer that any children inside the house old
enough to testify would have to be killed, police said.
A search of the home
with the permission of the occupants revealed no drugs _ only the white, crumbly
cheese common in Mexican cuisine.

There's two things you should know if you want to make it in this world. The first thing is don't mistake cheese for cocaine. The second, never invite a cokehead to a feista.

Via Neil Gaiman, Woman Allegedly Hires Hit Man for Cheese (Wash Post)
Comments:
As tacky as this is to say, cannot resist: This takes the whole meaning out of "cutting" the cheese!
 
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