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Hungry Woman Unleashes Thin-Mint Beat Down

By Jack Huber

A Girl Scout is pure, honorable and true. A Girl Scout cookie is just plain delicious. With that in mind, maybe it's easy to understand what motivated a 31-year-old Florida woman to chase and attack her roommate with a deadly weapon. It all started with Hersha C. Howard's planned late night snack -- Thin-Mints. We've all gotten our taste buds ready for a certain stimulation, only to be disappointed when it's not available. So it's easy to imagine the rage that resulted from the sight of that empty cookie sleeve. Wild with the munchies, Hersha hustled into her roommate's bedroom, woke her up and demanded to know the location of the kidnapped cookies. The still sleepy woman explained that she had given the treats to Howard's children, yet offered to pay more than twice what the cookies were worth, just the same...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).