Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/01/723739.html
She was living her best life.
Police said her excuse was half-baked, ordered her to pay for the cake, the whole cake and nothing but the cake, and informed her that if she returned, she would be cited for a breach of the piece.
Interviewed later by Texas 5 News, Officer Schokoladenkuchen said that he wasn’t sure what had prompted the attempted theft, but there was a general suspicion the woman had been pie-eyed.
Texas has nothing on Western New York
If only she hadn’t forgotten to bring her portal gun.
As a Floridian I can only heave a sigh of relief that this wasn’t another Florida story.
… and that’s terrible.
The beauty of using “Wichita Walmart incident” in your search is that you’ll pick up both Wichita Falls TX and Wichita KN, thereby effectively doubling your crazy redneck hits.
And really, who among us can say that she has not, at one time or another, tried to have her cake and eat it too?
Officers ordered her to pay the full price but did not issue her a citation.
Darn. I really wanted to see the mug shot of someone who just ate half a cake.
No pics of her gambol down the cake-walk?
Texas is gaining on you!
She could not have her cake and eat it too, despite a vigorous attempt being made.
If this were Florida she would have eaten the whole thing and stuffed the packaging in a random shelf.
Are we going to have women competing for living their best lives at wal-mart now? First it was the lady with the wine-filled pringle can on a mobility scooter, now this!
Asked to comment, Ivanka Trump said, “Oh, let her eat it.”
If it were florida, she’d have thrown a live alligator through the cop car’s window.
" As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"
When the word Texas catches my eye in a headline, my first thought is: FFS, what did we do now?
From the security camera in the bakery department:
Let her eat cake, I say.
There’s a soundtrack too:
Well this takes the cake…