What people will do for a dollar
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
March 29, 2010 10:11am CST
EAST NORTHPORT, N.Y. -- A Suffolk County husband and wife are facing charges of tampering in connection to packages of Jell-O pudding mix that were found to contain salt and sand.
Suffolk County police arrested 68-year-old Alexander Clement and 64-year-old Christine Clement on Sunday. The East Northport residents are facing multiple counts of petit larceny and tampering with a consumer product.
Authorities said Christine Clement bought the boxes from four Long Island stores, removed the contents, and refilled them with a mix of salt and sand. The boxes were then returned for a refund.
Police said there was no indication of any intent to harm anyone, only to get the pudding mix without having to pay for it.
The Clements will be arraigned at a later date. They did not return a call seeking comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/28/new-york-couple-facing-charges-jell-o-tampering/
how much is pudding at your store? I think it goes for about a buck at ours. That seems like an awful lot of work for a dollar.
3 responses
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
2 Apr 10
I think they're mad about something...that's just too ridiculous to be the whole story. They would have gotten more money back if they had done this to a ten pound bag of sugar.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
29 Mar 10
Wow that is pretty sad. I think you are right. It's only like $1 or maybe even less at Walmart for pudding. If you can't afford that for pudding I would say you really don't need it that badly. I couldn't imagine sitting there opening up all those packages and then refilling them with sand and salt. Could you imagine being the people who opened them up and found sand? I wonder how they found out it was them and traced it back to them.
