Catherine Anne Delgado, 35, had "chocolate smeared on her arms and shirt, and there was so much unwrapped chocolate in her purse that it was spilling out onto a hotel sofa." Delgado had apparently tried to flush the bricks of fudge down a hotel toilet, which, according to the police report posted on The Smoking Gun, "stopped up the toilet."
In addition to the fudge she had also stolen 5 M&M pretzel sticks. Half-eaten cookies were found at the scene of the crime. Someone call Encyclopedia Brown, there may be more to this case than meets the eye...
Fudge Packer Popped [The Smoking Gun via DListed]
(Photo:Annapolis Police Department)
Maybe you guys need to reread your FAQ. This story reads a lot more like sensationalist crap about people doing stupid things, than anything to do with consumerism. Oh wait, I get it, she consumed the chocolate? Right.
]]>@Pelagius: I totally just spit my water all over myself. That was great.
Seriously people, this was supposed to be funny. You know, haha. Big deal if it isn't about consumers and CEOs bendind poor people over. IT IS FUNNY! LAUGH!
Well.... and sad. Poor lady needs some help.
]]>"Delgado was charged with swiping ten fudge loafs valued at about $70 and five M&M pretzels worth $19.45."
Looks like she probably stole nearly $800 worth of stuff from this store.
]]>Does this really worthy to be posted here in Consumerist.com?
Come on, people, have some quality control!
I think the poster was having a laugh with the title as 'packing fudge' is a homosexual term for anal sex. Next an article about "Madame La Palma and her 5 daughters?"
]]>I hope that fudge wasn't part of the Chinese poison train. Toot! Toot!
]]>I Hope that Fudge wasn't part of the Chinese poison train. Toot! Toot!
]]>@dbeahn: Sorry about that... i ment "Hysterical behavior". MS word cant read my mind while i'm typing words wrong. At least i dont think it can...
Shoot!!! Wheres my tinfoil hat?!
Suggestion for your next headline: Consumerist readers found with 10 pounds of sand packed in their va-jay-jays.
]]>Tell me how the story ends?
What I was thinking... (in my mind role played my Pamela Anderson)... She was naked rolling around in chocolate in the hotel room. The porter enters bringing her baggage. She says "come here big boy and help me pack my fudge"... Then the old 70s porno music kicks in.
Ok, we men are weird, but have good imaginations and can turn anything we see or hear into a porno in our minds :)
]]>I know when I make fudge I usually put it into the toilet.
So the consumerist warning for this story is... fudge may cause historical behavior???
Ben's on vacation. Is this the Consumerist/Onion?
There's nothing wrong with a differnt type article once in a while.
Keep up the good work.
]]>I live in the area and read the local news police report. Some of the orginal story has been left out here. Apparently, when she arrived at the hotel she had claimed she was sexually assulted. The police investigated, found she had fabricated the story, saw the chocolate every where, become suspicious. They investigated near by and found the store broken into, and when they went back to confront her, thats when they found her flushing fudge down toilet.
]]>Annapolis is a great tourist town, no so great of a living town...
]]>Are The Three Investigator references up next?
(As for article selection: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.)
]]>talk about hitting rock bottom.
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For everybody complaining about how Consumerist doesn't post enough consumer news, I'll point out that the article about the CPSC's resuscitation has a total of three comments on it, two of which are mine. So... for all the begging and pleading for more articles like that, nobody seems to actually like articles like that.
At least, that's how it looks when you're measuring quantifiable statistics of site usage, like pageviews, comment numbers, and other things that help the operators decide what kind of stories to post. Even if Ben and Meghann read the thread on this article and see that people hate it, they can see that people are willing to argue about this article in a way they won't on the other one. Arguments mean more hits, and more hits mean they get to keep their jobs.
Lord knows I hate blaming the victim, but in this case, reader response determines site content -- so yeah, it's kind of our fault.
Encyclopedia Brown? More like Encyclopedia Dramatica...
Yeah, that's why it's so much better... though that ain't saying much.
]]>I don't know how great this article being posted is, though. But I haven't had any real issues with anything else. And it is just a blog, calm down!
]]>my only question would be why?
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Two words: POSTING QUOTAS
"....where she was found, covered in chocolate and crying hysterically, on on a lobby sofa."
Sounds like someone was surfing the crimson wave!
Now I know to just avoid those sorts of jobs.
]]>Kimora may be a skank ho... but she took a great mugshot... that kind of composure is hard to find when the cops have just found your coke stash.
]]>I did like the Encyclopedia Brown reference, though.
]]>She shoulda' applied for a job. I had a friend who worked in a fudge store and got all the free fudge he wanted. (Of course, after a few weeks, he didn't want any anymore)
]]>Hey, wait a second...
]]>Are we supposed to get a laugh at her expense? I feel sad for this person. Her crime was pretty minor but it is obvious that she has quite a number of issues. I hope that she can get the assistance that she needs to overcome her mental anguish.
]]>I was thinking the same thing...
]]>Seriously, what the heck is going on with this blog? Religion, hacking, cooky criminals, made up stories about call center reps with zero confirmation, stories that don't make sense about cable techs. Everything except consumer issues.
]]>I guess you can say she really "fudged" up that criminal attempt.
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