(Cross-posted and back-dated from schlockmercenary.com)
At almost the precise moment my “Cheeeeese” blog entry aired, a Schlocker emailed me with what sounded like an anecdotal or urban-legend-esque tale. Supposedly there was this young woman who saw a block of queso blanco on a neighbor’s table, decided it was uncut cocaine, and hired a hit man to kill everyone in the house so she could steal the coke and resell it.
To her misfortune (and to the good fortune of everyone in the home) the hit man she hired was an undercover police officer. And the cops searched the house, having reasonable cause, and determined that the queso blanco was not, in fact, cocaine.
A little googling pulled up the original article. Here it is, from the Washington Post. The article aired on December 6th (here at Schlock Mercenary we’re less than 10 days behind the rest of the journalistic world) and at that time Jessica Sandy Booth remained in jail, with bond set at a cool million dollars, on four charges of attempted murder and four counts of soliciting murder.
All over a block of queso blanco. I think I’ll go fry some right now, and get my buzz on.
(EDIT: The Post article is gone… here’s another article instead.)