I don’t know how you spent your Saturday, but I spent an hour and a half of mine at the lodge pictured below listening to a very interesting seminar on poisons native to Mississippi. (Can you see where this is going?)
Did you know some of the most common plants around us are very poisonous? Like White Snakeroot. Apparently, Abraham Lincoln’s mother died after drinking milk from a cow that had eaten white snakeroot. It looks remarkably like Queen Anne’s Lace. 
The plants shown in the last two photos were gathered alongside a country road in Mississippi.
You’ll see just how poisonous these natural plants can be in an upcoming book set in Natchez…
Now onto last week’s Mystery question~ More dumb criminal scenarios. As usual, three are real and one is made up. Which is the false scenario?
- The tables were turned on a “stranger” when he tried to draw an off-duty policeman into a pigeon drop scam.
- Would-be escape artists made it out of prison only to be caught when they visited a nearby escape game room less than twenty-four hours later.
- The not-so-smart dope dealer called police to report the theft of $50 and an ounce of cocaine. Officers also found a crack rock and crack pipe on the console of his car.
- A thief stole what he thought was phone chargers that could be resold. The devices turned out to be trackers which transmit their locations within 30 feet every 60 seconds when in recovery mode, and they were in recovery mode.
And the one I made up is… #1! Can you believe the escape artists who got caught when the visited an escape room??
Now for this week’s Mystery Question. It comes from a police blotter report. As usual three are real and one is made up.
- Police arrested a woman for domestic violence after she hit her husband with a ceramic bowl following an argument over what breakfast cereal to buy.
- An intoxicated woman was arrested after she called 911 because she accidentally put a bundle of meth in the deposit slot of an ATM (she had been carrying the meth in a deposit envelope). She wanted help getting her meth back.
- A store owner called police when he found the door of his small grocery open. Inside, police discovered an unconscious teen in the beer cooler. He apparently locked himself inside the cooler after drinking half a case of beer.
- A man was arrested after he broke into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment while she was away on vacation. He filled her waterbed and curtain rods with shrimp. In a June heatwave. The woman returned ten days later to an uninhabitable apartment.
Okay, Super Sleuths, which scenario did I make up? Leave your answer in the comments and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a book from my library!
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#3 is made up
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Hi Kassy and welcome to my blog! We’ll see next week if it’s #3…
#3
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I think I see a trend, Lisa! Thanks for stopping by.
# 1
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We’ll see, Mindy…thanks for stopping by.
Oh, I hope, I hope it’s number 4 because I don’t wish that on anyone!
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That would be horrible, wouldn’t it, Priscilla. Thanks for dropping by.
I will guess #3 because I don’t think the cooler would lock. #4 is so absolutely over-the-top that it must be true.
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I like your reasoning, Christine…thanks for dropping in!
I think it’s #4.
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Hi Suzanne! We’ll see next week if it’s #4. Thanks for dropping by.
I think it is the beer cooler one.
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Hmmm, Paula…I do see a trend…thanks for stopping by!
I’ll go with #3. #4 is believable. People bent on revenge do some strange things!
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They do, don’t they Mary! We’ll see next week if it’s #3. Thanks for stopping by.
I’ll go with #3.
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Wow! Number 3 is trending…thanks for stopping by, Jackie!
Just to be different, I’ll say #2! Lol! I love that!!
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I like different, Regina! Congrats on your book release.
I’m going with #4.
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We’ll see, Beth. But if it is true, I think that guy needs to be locked up for good! Thanks for stopping by.
I pray #4
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I know, Lucy! We’ll see next week. Thanks for stopping by.
I notice someone else has already chosen #2 “just to be different”. I’m choosing it “just to be consistent”. I can believe the one about the shrimp. I have heard of people putting an open can of sardines or some Limburger cheese on the exhaust manifold of a car to prank a newlywed couple. If there are those who would do that to a friend, I feel sure the shrimp escapade has happened.
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Good reasoning, Edward, although that one really seems out there to me. lol Thanks for stopping by!
I am going with #1.
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We’ll see next week, Gloria! Thanks for stopping by.
I think it has to be #3, because the other three are so absolutely stupid….they have to be true. 🙂
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Good reasoning, Jan! We’ll see next week. Thanks for stopping by.
I’m trying #3, but I’m really hoping it’s #4! That would be awful!
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I know, Colleen…wouldn’t that be just horrible! Thanks for stopping by.
#3—because I hope for safety reasons that a person cannot be locked in a cooler!
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Hmmm, MS Barb…some of the older coolers don’t have that safety feature. When I ran a store, we had to be careful not to let the meat cooler door shut on us…just sayin’ lol. Thanks for stopping by.
#4. It seems to weird!
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Martha, I agree it does seem too weird…after spelling weird wired the first time…thanks for stopping by!
I can’t seem to spell. I meant too.
I think #4
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We’ll see, Sandy and welcome to my blog!
I’m guessing #4. I’d hate to see shrimp wasted in that manner. 😉
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You and me, both, Caryl! We’ll see next week! Thanks for stopping by.
I don’t see a lot of #1 so that is my pick. Not because it can’t be true, but because it’s an unpopular number this week, lol!
I agree with others on the shrimp thing, what a horrid mess to come home to…not to mention, the smell…whew!! About the white snakeroot, I’ve seen recent pictures of people who’ve come in contact with the plant. The blisters that ensue look 110% worse than poison ivy or oak! This is why I no longer tromp in the woods, you never know what you’ll touch. Yikes!
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I like your reasoning, Trixi! As for tromping in the woods, years ago I accompanied my husband when he looked over a stand of timber to buy. We were in the lumber business and had a sawmill. I kept one eye on the trees and the other looking for snakes…thanks for stopping by!
I’m going with #4. It would take a lot of shrimp to fill a watered. Are curtain rods in apartments even hollow? Anyway, it would probably be expensive to buy that much shrimp!
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Great reasoning, Jeanna! We’ll see next week if you’re correct. Thanks for stopping by!
number 4 bc that would be too much work for the boyfriend….
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Tina, I like the way you think. lol. Thanks for stopping by!
thank you!!!! I love your site, and reading your writing is an amazing adventure!
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Why, thank you! You’ve made my day. So glad you visited my blog today, Tina.
Sadly, these seem all too plausible. I am guessing #4 simply because I truly hope it isn’t true.
#3
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We’ll see next week, Jen, if it’s #3! Thanks for visiting my blog!
I say it’s # 4
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We’ll see, Elisa! And welcome to my blog! 😉