Despite Coronavirus Scare, US Woman Licks Groceries Worth Rs 1.3 Lakh & Gets Royally Busted

Apart from myriad life lessons the coronavirus lockdown is teaching the world, there¡¯s a more disturbing realisation that¡¯s dawned upon us¡ªsome humans just don¡¯t seem to have boundaries and are utterly apathetic. We hear of people dying every single day, yet there are some who think it¡¯s just fine to treat these dark times as a joke.

Since the coronavirus outbreak, some people who thought they were ¡®invincible¡¯ decided to start a ¡®coronavirus challenge¡¯ where they licked toilet seats. And yes, it had to go wrong, 21-year-old American, who goes by the screen name Larz who followed the weird trend actually ended up contracting the virus!

Now again, a woman hailing from California went on a grocery licking rampage and destroyed product worth Rs 1,37,236. A spokesman for the South Lake Tahoe police department, near the border with Nevada, told AFP that officers were called to the Safeway store on Tuesday following reports of "a customer licking groceries" at a time of heightened fears over the spread of the highly contagious novel coronavirus.

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"When officers arrived on the scene, a Safeway employee informed them that the suspect put numerous pieces of jewellery from the store on her hands," he said. "The suspect licked the jewellery then began to load her cart with merchandise from the store."

Officers identified the woman as Jennifer Walker, inside the store with a shopping cart full of items, including meat and liquor, to purchase which she had neither the means or the intention it seems.

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Walker, 53, was arrested for felony vandalism and the merchandise had to be destroyed for fear of contamination.

In a similar incident that took place on March 25, a man named Cody Lee Pfister deodorant at a Missouri Walmart, and then asked, ¡°Who¡¯s scared of coronavirus?¡± in a revolting viral video. Horror ensued soon after he posted the footage.

Pfister¡¯s tongue appeared to touch several products during the quick video, which included the caption: ¡°I¡¯m a nasty moths f¨Cker!!!¡± Through the entire video, Pfister remained disturbingly amused and nothing seemed to matter to him.

The Warrenton Police Department said in a Facebook post that it received calls from local residents, as well as people overseas in the Netherlands, Ireland and the United Kingdom, to report the video.

A criminal complaint states that Pfister "knowingly caused a false belief or fear that a condition involving danger to life existed," reported NBC news.