California Woman Arrested For Licking Nearly $2,000 in Items

From the Only in America files comes this latest entry!  The police have arrested a Northern California woman after she allegedly licked $1,800 worth of grocery store items according to Newsweek.

The woman, 53-year-old Jennifer Walker from South Lake Tahoe, had allegedly licked several pieces of jewelry for sale at the store and then placed them on her hands. After doing that, she then started to fill her shopping cart with approximately $1,800 worth of merchandise. She was arrested Tuesday according to a release from the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.

The release stated that “When officers arrived on the scene, a Safeway employee informed them that the suspect put numerous pieces of jewelry from the store on her hands. The suspect licked the jewelry then began to load her cart with merchandise from the store. The employee informed the officers that all the items in the suspect’s shopping cart were deemed unsellable due to the cross-contamination.

“Officers located the suspect, Jennifer Walker, a 53-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident, inside of the store with a shopping cart full of merchandise. An investigation revealed that Walker had no means to purchase any of the items. The approximate value of the items was $1,800.

“Walker was subsequently arrested for felony vandalism and was booked in the El Dorado County jail without further incident.”

Walker was arrested and given a felony charge of “vandalism of more than $400” and booked into the El Dorado County jail. She still she remains in custody, according to the inmate records. The South Lake Tahoe police department did not suggest she had a specific motive. The charge of vandalism over $400 carries possible sentences of up to one year in jail and/or up to $50,000 in subsequent fines. Records show that the suspect’s bail was set at $10,000.

There have been many cases of coronavirus-linked incidents in stores recently around the world. In Australia last week, a man was arrested after being accused of intentionally coughing on packets of noodles after the staff informed him that there was a limit on how many he could purchase.

In Missouri, a 26-year-old man was taken into custody after filming himself wiping his tongue on a row of deodorants in a Walmart store, before he posted the footage to social media. And in Florida, a man was seen spraying a substance on a business door and claimed that it contained the coronavirus.

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California Woman Arrested For Licking Nearly $2,000 in Items

From the Only in America files comes this latest entry!  The police have arrested a Northern California woman after she allegedly licked $1,800 worth of grocery store items according to Newsweek.

The woman, 53-year-old Jennifer Walker from South Lake Tahoe, had allegedly licked several pieces of jewelry for sale at the store and then placed them on her hands. After doing that, she then started to fill her shopping cart with approximately $1,800 worth of merchandise. She was arrested Tuesday according to a release from the South Lake Tahoe Police Department.

The release stated that “When officers arrived on the scene, a Safeway employee informed them that the suspect put numerous pieces of jewelry from the store on her hands. The suspect licked the jewelry then began to load her cart with merchandise from the store. The employee informed the officers that all the items in the suspect’s shopping cart were deemed unsellable due to the cross-contamination.

“Officers located the suspect, Jennifer Walker, a 53-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident, inside of the store with a shopping cart full of merchandise. An investigation revealed that Walker had no means to purchase any of the items. The approximate value of the items was $1,800.

“Walker was subsequently arrested for felony vandalism and was booked in the El Dorado County jail without further incident.”

Walker was arrested and given a felony charge of “vandalism of more than $400” and booked into the El Dorado County jail. She still she remains in custody, according to the inmate records. The South Lake Tahoe police department did not suggest she had a specific motive. The charge of vandalism over $400 carries possible sentences of up to one year in jail and/or up to $50,000 in subsequent fines. Records show that the suspect’s bail was set at $10,000.

There have been many cases of coronavirus-linked incidents in stores recently around the world. In Australia last week, a man was arrested after being accused of intentionally coughing on packets of noodles after the staff informed him that there was a limit on how many he could purchase.

In Missouri, a 26-year-old man was taken into custody after filming himself wiping his tongue on a row of deodorants in a Walmart store, before he posted the footage to social media. And in Florida, a man was seen spraying a substance on a business door and claimed that it contained the coronavirus.

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There Is Now A National Surplus of Chicken Wings

Due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, with the cancellation of sports events, specifically the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness, there is a serious surplus of chicken wings in the United States according to Yahoo Sports.

Chicken wings are now being sold for a little over $1 per pound according to the Washington Post, which is nearly half of what they were going for around the Super Bowl. There were nearly 1.25 million pounds of chicken wings sold the same week that the NCAA tournament was slated to start last month, per the report.

“The basketball, it’s for real,” said Erik Oosterwijk, president of Fells Point Wholesale Meats in Baltimore, via the Washington Post. “The basketball didn’t happen. People are not going to restaurants and there’s a lot of excess.”

And adding to the chicken wing surplus is the shutting down of some chicken franchises like Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters and Wingstop, to name a few. These and most restaurants are either completely closed is only available for delivery orders and takeout only.

“Those are millions of pounds of wings that people don’t eat,” Oosterwijk told the Washington Post. “And if [coronavirus] happened in January and February, it would have been the Super Bowl that got hit. There’s no doubt there’s a lot of food out there today.”

Chicken wing producers have been experimenting with a few different options to try to deal with the surplus in recent weeks. Some have thought about closing some processing and packaging plants, restricting the number of chicken eggs allowed to hatch, and also trying to limit the chickens’ food supply so that they grow at a much slower pace. Suppliers have been trying to divert food from restaurants to grocers, too, or even freezing wings in a hope that the market bounces back soon.

“The major wing chains that should be hot this time of year are closed,” said Will Sawyer, an animal protein economist at CoBank said. “The food service side of things, they probably still have wings they bought weeks ago getting ready for March Madness and for people to come watch the games, but they’re not selling them.”

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There Is Now A National Surplus of Chicken Wings

Due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, with the cancellation of sports events, specifically the NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness, there is a serious surplus of chicken wings in the United States according to Yahoo Sports.

Chicken wings are now being sold for a little over $1 per pound according to the Washington Post, which is nearly half of what they were going for around the Super Bowl. There were nearly 1.25 million pounds of chicken wings sold the same week that the NCAA tournament was slated to start last month, per the report.

“The basketball, it’s for real,” said Erik Oosterwijk, president of Fells Point Wholesale Meats in Baltimore, via the Washington Post. “The basketball didn’t happen. People are not going to restaurants and there’s a lot of excess.”

And adding to the chicken wing surplus is the shutting down of some chicken franchises like Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters and Wingstop, to name a few. These and most restaurants are either completely closed is only available for delivery orders and takeout only.

“Those are millions of pounds of wings that people don’t eat,” Oosterwijk told the Washington Post. “And if [coronavirus] happened in January and February, it would have been the Super Bowl that got hit. There’s no doubt there’s a lot of food out there today.”

Chicken wing producers have been experimenting with a few different options to try to deal with the surplus in recent weeks. Some have thought about closing some processing and packaging plants, restricting the number of chicken eggs allowed to hatch, and also trying to limit the chickens’ food supply so that they grow at a much slower pace. Suppliers have been trying to divert food from restaurants to grocers, too, or even freezing wings in a hope that the market bounces back soon.

“The major wing chains that should be hot this time of year are closed,” said Will Sawyer, an animal protein economist at CoBank said. “The food service side of things, they probably still have wings they bought weeks ago getting ready for March Madness and for people to come watch the games, but they’re not selling them.”

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