http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cheesy_p...q3tiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- Woman Allegedly Hires Hit Man for Cheese Tue Dec 6, 7:01 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. - 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. Jessica Sandy Booth, 18, was arrested over the weekend and remains in jail with bond set at $1 million on four charges of attempted murder and four counts of soliciting a murder. 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. "Four men were going to lose their lives over some cheese," said Lt. Jeff Clark, who heads Project Safe Neighborhoods.
Props to the cops for shutting this one down before it happened. Anyone that cares that little about human life needs to be put away permanently. I mean, to kill four men over ONE brick of cocaine? I mean, to kill anyone for any amount of money is disgusting. But to kill them for that little is really indicative of how selfish she is...
It seemed to me that you might be undervaluing how much a "brick" of cocaine might be worth so I did a quick Google. Apparently when sold as a single unit, I saw stories which placed estimates for a 1 kilogram brick in the range of $20,000-$30,000. When cut and sold in individually packaged 1 gram units that number jumps to a range from $70,000 to over $100k, depending upon how much it is cut. Not to be crass, but it seems to me that people have been murdered for orders of magnitude less than that. I definitely don't condone it but I'm not surprised.
I absolutely hate cheese! It confuses me when people add it or taste it in something and say it makes it taste better (ex. cheeseburger)! UGH! Give me a hamburger any day of the week!
Yeah, I know the general going rate for a kilo of cocaine is close to $100k. I guess it's just more of my perspective. When I think of people being killed for money, I think of armed robberies that don't go well. From my perspective, to premeditate a murder over money would require a sum greater than $100k. To risk life in jail for about 3 years' worth of income is pretty foolish. But, that's me...
reminds me of an old photography professor of mine. he hired some models for a nude figure study shoot and one of the girls was anorexic. for the follow up critique, i mounted my printed pictures of her in little balsa coffins and hung them on a christmas tree. and he thought he was weird.
no, he's still breathing as far as i know. he did write me a nice recommendation for grad school though.
