Peanut-Butter Attack Claimed By Battle Creek, Mich. Woman With Nut Allergy

There have been a lot of crazy crimes but this one is completely nuts: a Michigan woman is under investigation for assault, because she mailed a letter coated with peanut butter to her ex-husband, whose new wife just happens to have a peanut allergy.

The wife with the goober allergy picked up the letter soaked with oil in her Battle Creek, Mich mailbox only to see a warning scrawled on the envelope that it contained peanut butter, the Battle Creek Enquire reported.

Reports didn't indicate if it was a chunky or smooth spread smeared on the letter.

The victim, who hasn't been identified, believed it was a deliberate attempt harm her, because, like a growing number of Americans, she's highly sensitive to the legume, radio station WSJM reported.

The woman denied trying to hurt her ex-husband's spouse and said she lathered the peanut butter to keep her from reading the private correspondence.

Calhoun County prosecutors didn't return calls to AOL Weird News, but reports said the officials are investigating the incident which happend June 10.

Comments

[hornedcog]

08:30 AM on 06/20/2011

Inbred.

[whataboutGod]

01:06 PM on 06/19/2011

Well, she did warn her?

[onwisconsin]

05:58 PM on 06/18/2011

You are so kind and gracious.

I hope you have a child with food allergies. Those of us who live with them would do almost anything to get rid of the problem.

I D I O T

[Sinned39]

03:11 PM on 06/17/2011

HELLO??? Haven't these idiots ever heard of something called email??? How about texting???

And what's with the US Post Office allowing this through the system anyway?? Shouldn't this have been caught during the sorting stage??? Or by the letter carrier? If the USPS can't catch a letter laced with peanut butter, how are we supposed to feel about them catching a terrorist letter containing "mysterious white powder"???

[MajorKong]

12:19 PM on 06/17/2011

Why do so many people have peanut allergies these days?

Back when I was a kid it was almost unheard of. Or did we just not know as much then?

[hemiram]

02:11 AM on 06/18/2011

I remember one kid had it, just one, when I was in grade school, and she wasn't as seemingly sensitive as a lot of people seem to be now, where someone just smells it and has to go to the ER. Sad thing was, she really liked Jif, and was very upset that she couldn't eat it anymore, but had to see us eat it, or other, lesser peanut butters, almost every day at lunch. I just had two Jif crunchy sandwiches for lunch a couple days ago, and I would really miss peanut butter if I couldn't eat it anymore.

[onwisconsin]

06:11 PM on 06/18/2011

My dad has had the peanut allergy all of his life and he's 71. He's had to carry epinephrine all of his life. Thanks to his watchful parents it was caught early on. I've had several food allergies, requiring me to carry epi all of my life as well. I have 4 sisters and two of them have serious allergies. We're in our mid-to-late 40s.

I knew many other kids while I was growing up who had serious allergies, though maybe not as serious as mine.

I think several things have happened here: 1) there has been a significant uptick in serious food allergies, 2) with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act we who are allergic finally had some protections in the law, 3) with the advent of the internet we are able to more easily converse as a community and have found a distinct voice for ourselves and our children.

[Squigibo]

11:33 AM on 06/17/2011

I have to remember this. I think my mother-in-law is allergic to it.

[whataboutGod]

01:04 PM on 06/19/2011

lol

[rich3324]

11:29 AM on 06/17/2011

I know what you're thinking. "Did he flick 5 or 6 spoonfuls " Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is Skippy Super Chunk, the most powerful peanut butter in the world in the world, and would put you in anaphylactic shock , you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

[GibbsSlap]

01:40 PM on 06/17/2011

Excellent!

[danivers]

09:25 AM on 06/17/2011

It sometimes hard to believe we humans made it this far at all. This peanut butter allergy epidemic is truly weird. When did we become so friggin' fragile as a species? Do any other animals have so many silly allergies?

Just more proof that life sprung from random chance. No loving "god" would ever design a child that can't eat peanut butter. What unspeakable cruelty?!

*** The preceding comment was something called a "joke". It is to be laughed at or not. It is not meant to start a religious debate. Ask your doctor if comedy is right for you before replying.

[Jim Fay]

08:59 AM on 06/17/2011

Far more serious than people think ! This woman may be in deep doo for admitting that she used the oil as a deterrent AGAINST the new wife.
I've known people with near-deadly peanut allergies. A friend could walk into the lunch room and spin on his heels if someone even had a peanut butter sandwich in the fridge! He could smell it and he knew better. He said that if someone even wiped a finger's worth of peanut butter on his upper lip, he would probably be dead in 30 min when his throat constricted.

[truthinperson]

01:12 PM on 06/17/2011

She'd be in deep if her intent was to harm or kill the new wife. However, she wrote a warning on the envelope that it contained pb, which is consistent with her stated intent of keeping the new wife from reading mail that was not hers.

[bridgeman]

05:16 AM on 06/17/2011

thats some nutty stuff