Snacking while grocery shopping can make the ordeal more bearable, but not if you get arrested for it--and certainly not if you happen upon a package someone else has already snacked on.
A woman in a Chicago suburb is accused of not only the equivalent of a snack-and-run, but actually putting bitten food back on a shelf.
An Illinois woman stands accused of biting multiple packages of beef jerky, then returning them to a store shelf. Police say the 50-year-old refused to pay for the jerky after a Dollar General store manager saw her committing the crime -- not bothering to open the packages, but rather simply biting through the plastic before putting the jerky back on a shelf.
The woman apparently confused the theory that it pays to know a cop. Instead she claimed to be a cop -- during her arrest. That didn't seem to go over too well: bail was set at $1,500. Even at the 10% non-returnable portion of bail, $150 bucks equals a lot of beef jerky.
Police say investigators do not know the motive. Perhaps they're missing the obvious one.