"I'm GOUDA! I'm not a MUENSTER!"

::sighs:: I never ceased to be amazed by the stupidity of ... stupid people. Especially local ones. Saw this first on the local news, but the Associated Press has since picked it up:

Memphis (AP) - Police in Memphis say a woman mistook a block of white cheese for a cocaine stash and tried to hire a hitman to kill four men and steal it.

Police say Jessica Sandy Booth was mistaken about the hitman, too. He was an undercover policeman.

Booth is 18. She's charged with four counts of attempted murder and four more of soliciting a murder. Authorities say Booth was in the men's house recently and thought a block of queso fresco cheese was cocaine. The cheese is used in cooking.

Police say Booth, an aspiring model, told the hitman she needed $7,900 dollars to pay a modeling agency. The undercover officer was recording Booth's conversation and police say they have her saying any children old enough to testify would have to be killed as well.

People in the home gave police permission to search it. They found only the cheese.

Okay, let's go over the facts here:

1. Here is a picture of cocaine, via the US Department of Justice.
2. Here is a picture of queso fresco, via the Mozzerella Company.
3. Here is a picture of Jessica Booth, via MPD.
   

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks this whole situation could have been avoided if (a.) she'd been able to tell the difference between nose candy and a wheel of cheese, or (b.) she'd looked in a mirror.