|
Authorities said they followed a
trail of meat juice to a woman suspected of stealing
steak
from a neighbor's barbecue. Calaveras County
authorities arrested Lindsey Blackledge for allegedly
stealing the steak
off the outdoor grill when her
neighbor wasn't looking. The call to Calaveras County
Sheriff's Department came at
6:15 p.m. Wednesday from a
woman who said she only turned away from the grill
briefly to find her meal gone. Authorities
didn't have
to bring in the blood hounds to solve the case of the
missing meat. ''It had been stolen and a trail of
meat
juice was followed up to the next door apartment,'' said
sheriff's deputy Blain Smith. The deputies found the
partially cooked meat on a bathroom counter in the
apartment occupied by Blackledge. Blackledge was
arrested on
suspicion of receiving stolen property and
having an outstanding warrant for allegedly stealing
stolen property in
an unrelated case. She was being held
in Calaveras County jail on $25,000. The steak never
made it back to the grill.
''I doubt if it was returned
and I don't think they booked it in evidence,'' Smith
said. "
This is so bizarre on it's own that I can't think of
anything to add. Did you notice that this theft is so
serious
that bail is $25,000? And why was the meat in
the bathroom? And how could a person ovelook someone
taking meat off
the grill if they just turned
away "Briefly"? Did the neighbor just run up really fast
and grab it and then run away
again? Without being
noticed? Or did she, like, crawl along the ground all
sneaky-like and hide under the grill until
she saw her
chance? And why is it just called "meat"? Not steak, not
chicken, not pork...just "Meat"? So many questions....
|
