Girl Scout Cookie Dispute Leads To Assault Charges

NAPLES, Fla. — Police say a brawl between roommates over Girl Scout cookies led to assault charges against one of them. According to the Naples Daily News, the Collier County Sheriff's Office reports that 31-year-old Hersha Howard woke up her roommate early Sunday and accused her of eating her Thin Mints.

They argued and deputies say that it turned physical with Howard chasing her roommate with scissors and hitting her repeatedly with a board and then a sign.

Police say the roommate's husband tried to separate them. The roommate said she gave the cookies to Howard's children.

Howard is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She was released Monday on $10,000 bail.

A telephone listing for Howard could not be immediately found.

Comments

[cabinetmaniac]

09:42 AM on 03/03/2011

Thin Mints are THAT good.

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[butchcliff]

06:32 PM on 03/01/2011

Guess no one can touch her 'Cookies' cept her hubbie

[Laxsmi de Potrero]

02:00 PM on 02/27/2011

sugar addict jones out

[bobbiisadukefan]

09:25 AM on 02/25/2011

Freeze them and they are wonderful....eating some right now..I know cookies for breakfast!

[Atxish]

10:54 AM on 02/24/2011

Let me start by saying I truly feel bad for the woman who was attacked. However, I couldn't help but laugh when I read this. While it's true these cookies only come around every once in a while, it's NOT. THAT. SERIOUS! Especially given that the woman offered to pay double AND that she gave them to the attacker's children! It's not like she sat around watching TV just eating someone else's stuff. She NEEDS to be in jail. Actually she needs to be committed for psych treatment. All of this over a COOKIE?! Thin Mints are good, but they aren't Tony-the-Tiger "GRRRRRRRRRRREAT!"

[Angie Tyne 1]

05:37 PM on 02/23/2011

I swear, Florida has it's own special brand of crazy.

[Andres64]

05:50 PM on 02/23/2011

A local radion station used to have a contest: Florida or Germany? They'd read a crazy news story and the caller had to guess where it happened.

[Angie Tyne 1]

07:23 PM on 02/23/2011

Adam Carolla. Hubs used to listen to him all the time. Total crackup.

[Katzencats]

04:37 PM on 02/23/2011

I haven't had a Girl Scout come to my house in a couple of years, & haven't seen them set up at the grocery store for the last 2 years. So, it's been a while & the baker/supplier may have changed... Last 2 times I got Thin Mints, they had a horrible "coconut" taste to them, not like the Thin Mints of old.I would chase someone about THAT. I found some Barbara Dee brand chocolate mint cookies that tasted like the old ones. : ) My favorite is still the peanut butter sandwich.

btw, when I say "of old", I mean just that - I used to order a box of each as a kid (long, skinny, single row box) & save 2 week's 35¢ allowance to pay for them. Yup - 35¢ each box. :D

[Jaskoen]

04:28 PM on 02/23/2011

I don't get it. It's not like they were samoas.

[Waterlooboy]

04:03 PM on 02/23/2011

The untold story. The attacker was 400 pounds. So she really needs her thin mints.

[blackwind]

04:18 PM on 02/23/2011

Should be easy to outrun then. Probably what saved the victim.

[turamali]

04:01 PM on 02/23/2011

I have to admit that even after all these years I would still have to smack someone who got into my Thin Mints.

[blackwind]

04:22 PM on 02/23/2011

Any sensible jury would rule it justified too.

[bobbiisadukefan]

09:25 AM on 02/25/2011

I don't hit, but I will fuss someone out over mine!

[snafu77]

03:57 PM on 02/23/2011

Savages. I only fight over ribs and eggnog.

[bobbiisadukefan]

09:26 AM on 02/25/2011

LOL! what a combo!

[msfiskvsletterman]

12:19 PM on 02/23/2011

2/23/11
12:19pm
Arlington, VA

I thought this was going to be a story about a Girl Scout battle over "turf."
Thank goodness, just a lady chasing her roomie around with scissors over Thin Mints.
Yikes.

[newtom]

11:27 AM on 02/23/2011

They're not even made with real Girl Scouts!

[Gunfighter]

02:46 PM on 02/23/2011

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Phoebe917]

11:13 AM on 02/23/2011

this reminds me of a story many, many years ago. i was living, for the summer at a beach resort, saving to pay for college. i had two roomates and we were all broke. there was cool cheese shop that back then, sold really exotic and excellent fare, but expensive. one night i woke up to yelling and screaming and general mayhem. it seems my one room mate ate the other's cheese and the offended roomate was chasing the other all around the apartment with a broom. i didn't know whether to laugh or call the police.

[tombollocks]

11:07 AM on 02/23/2011

I thought it was a story about an assault on one's palate. Hmph.