milk and cookies...

If you had the choice between eating cookies or drinking milk what would you choose? Now, what if the cookies were given to you on a plate with a note attached, reading "We made these cookies just for you, hope you enjoy them" and the milk had little green pellets in the bottom. You'd choose the cookies, right? Good decision.

A mom in Maine was found guilty of assisting her daughter and two friends in baking cookies with laxative pills crushed in them and giving them to their teacher at school. What she was thinking when she did this, I don't know, but she told the girls how to crush the Ex-Lax pills and mix them in the batter. The girls used the whole bottle. The teacher, being the good samaritan she is, gave the cookies to her students. Whoops.

Julie Hunt was arrested Friday after a police investigation into the attempted prank at Carrabec Community School in Anson that sickened four seventh- and eighth-grade children.

Meanwhile, in Oregon, a teenage girl tried to kill two classmates by putting d-Con rat poison in the girls' milk. Clearly this girl cared a little bit less about being caught (she just wanted these girls dead) so she didn't think to, you know, conceal the green pellets in any way, shape, or form. Her psychiatrist so aptly noted that this poor girl can't tell right from wrong. No, you think? Like the targets, I would avoid drinking any milk that had green pellets sitting at the bottom. I love milk, but not that much.


The consequences? The Maine mom is being charged with a misdemeanor while the 12-year-old Oregonian gets to spend the next 12 years of her life in a juvenile detention center (I wonder how the other girls at the Hillcrest Girls' School will feel about eating meals with this one once she gets there...).

And on a tangent, while looking for a good picture of a glass of milk, I found that milk is Minnesota's state drink. Now I have validation for liking it so much -- it's my roots (said with the Minnesotan accent, of course)!