Blue Bell looking for ice cream-licking prankster in sick viral video

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Tamar Lapin - The New York Post

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Not cool.

Ice cream maker Blue Bell says it’s looking into a now-viral video of a woman licking its ice cream at a grocery store and then placing the tainted tub back on the shelf.

“This type of incident will not be tolerated,” the company told WAFB in a statement, adding that they are working with law enforcement, retail partners and social media platforms to find the sick licker.

Footage shared Saturday shows the woman tonguing some Tin Roof-flavored ice cream — then putting the lid back on and placing it back on the shelf as she cackles. It’s unclear where the clip was filmed.

One tweet sharing the video with the caption “What kinda psychopathic behavior is this?!” was shared more than 26,000 times by Monday.

“I’m disgusted. This should be a criminal charge,” responded @OnlyGeeves.

Some frozen dessert fans blasted the company for not having a protective seal on their tubs to ward off less-than-sweet pranksters.

“During production, our half gallons are flipped upside down and sent to a hardening room where the ice cream freezes to the lid creating a natural seal,” Blue Bell responded. “The lids are frozen tightly to the carton. Any attempt at opening the product should be noticeable.”

The Texas-based company said it is monitoring the situation.

[Muddy]

Deport her ass..!

[DemonGeminiX]

Why is the company getting involved? It should be on the individual grocery store's shoulders.

[Muddy]

Why is the company getting involved? It should be on the individual grocery store's shoulders.

Good point.. Also, why don't they have the little plastic layer over the cream when you open it? Or some kind of safety sticker..?

[DemonGeminiX]

Also, why don't they have the little plastic layer over the cream when you open it? Or some kind of safety sticker..?

Indeed.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Good point.. Also, why don't they have the little plastic layer over the cream when you open it? Or some kind of safety sticker..?


Indeed.

:facepalm:


“During production, our half gallons are flipped upside down and sent to a hardening room where the ice cream freezes to the lid creating a natural seal,” Blue Bell responded. “The lids are frozen tightly to the carton. Any attempt at opening the product should be noticeable.”

[Muddy]

:facepalm:

Still though.. Any deviation from optimal temperature and you don't know if the product has been tampered with.. I'm in automation and this is a bad procedure..

[DemonGeminiX]

Yeah, that whole upside down thing's not good enough.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

disgusting

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Danielle Wallace | Fox News


Ice cream-maker Blue Bell continues to investigate after a viral video last week showed a suspect opening a container of the company's ice cream inside a grocery store, licking the contents, and then returning the container to the store's freezer.

Blue Bell believes the viral video was shot in a Walmart store in Lufkin, Texas. The company added that it had all tubs of its Tin Roof-flavor ice cream removed from the store as a precaution, according to a statement.

Meanwhile, the Lufkin Police Department said it plans to file “appropriate charges” against the suspect -- dubbed the "Lufkin Licker" in some reports -- when she is apprehended, according to a department Facebook post.

"Detectives believe they have the woman identified," the post says.

On Wednesday the company said it believes it has identified the exact container that appears in the video.

“Based on security footage, the location and the inspection of the carton, we believe we may have recovered the half gallon that was tampered with,” Blue Bell said, according to Fort Worth’s KTXA-TV.

Surveillance footage from the Lufkin Walmart shows a woman who resembles the suspect in the viral video, police said. The surveillance footage was shot around 11 p.m. last Friday, they said.

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After the video hit the Internet on Friday, Blue Bell began investigating Walmart locations in San Antonio, Houston and eventually Lufkin after social media comments suggested the woman was from the San Antonio area.

The company honed in on the Lufkin location after a Blue Bell division manager said “unique merchandising” found on his store’s display shelves matched the background of the video.

“Our biggest concern is consumer safety – in that regard we are glad to see the tainted product off the shelves,” Gerald Williamson, Lufkin's director of public safety, said on the town’s Police & Fire Facebook page.

Blue Bell reps said the company's ice cream is packaged upside down in a way that freezes the ice cream to the roof of the container on purpose so that any tampering can be easily spotted by the consumer, according to Dallas–Fort Worth's FOX 4.

The ice cream manufacturer has faced contamination issues in the past. In 2015, Blue Bell halted production after 10 people were hospitalized across four states from eating ice cream infecting with listeria, CBS News reported. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that three people in Kansas died that year from eating the bacteria-tainted ice cream and warned the public against consuming Blue Bell products.

Lufkin, a city of about 36,000 residents, is about 120 miles northeast of Houston.

[Hal-9000]

1. good

2. How is it someone in 2019 records and uploads a video taken in public to social media and somehow thinks they won't get caught??

Girl in Toronto threw a chair off a 20 story balcony to the street below and uploaded it. She's a social media influencer. Got caught and now the court wants to give her the maximum sentence. Bye stupid, hot girl :wavey:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

CNN News Wire


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LUFKIN, Texas – Police say they have found the person who opened a carton of ice cream at a Texas Walmart, licked the contents and put the container back in the freezer.

Lufkin Police said the female gleefully contaminated a half-gallon of Blue Bell Tin Roof ice cream — which the company describes as “a vanilla ice cream with a rich chocolate fudge swirl and roasted peanuts dipped in dark chocolate” — last week in a Twitter video that has garnered more than 11 million views.

Detectives have “identified and spoken with the suspect and her boyfriend in the ‘Blue Bell licking’ case,” a statement from Lufkin Police Department said.

The suspect, from San Antonio, is a juvenile, so police will not identify her.

“We do not intend to pursue charges against her as an ‘adult’ and therefore what happens from here is at the discretion of the juvenile justice system,” police said in a statement.

Offices are discussing her adult boyfriend’s involvement with prosecutors.

The statement from the Lufkin Police Department says, “The case will be turned over to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and remains under investigation.”

Blue Bell called the unsettling footage a “malicious act” in a statement on its website.

The ice cream maker said it inspected the freezer case that contained the licked ice cream, found the problematic tub, and removed all Tin Roof half-gallons from the Lufkin Walmart.

“The safety of our ice cream is our highest priority, and we work hard to maintain the highest level of confidence of our customers. Food tampering is not a joke, and we will not tolerate tampering with our products,” Blue Bell said.

A Walmart in Corpus Christi isn’t taking any chances with its own ice cream stock.

To protect its frozen goods, the store said, it stationed an “armed” guard in front of its Blue Bell freezer and posted a photo Wednesday of an employee holding a squirt gun; the photo was removed about 18 hours later.

“We’re guarding our Blue Bell Ice cream for your Weekend party, what a great way to cool down in the Hot Texas heat !” the post said.

[DemonGeminiX]

A visible seal would probably work better.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

Some dude in Louisiana copied the girl and the asshole got arrested. :lol:

[Muddy]

They should punish that little bitch by making her lick my entire ass crack after I have cut the grass for two hours.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Some dude in Louisiana copied the girl and the asshole got arrested. :lol:


Louisiana man charged after licking Blue Bell ice cream in copycat video; deputies warn others
By Kevin Foster - WAFB Channel 9


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BELLE ROSE, La. (WAFB) - Law enforcement has had enough. In the weeks after a viral video of a young woman taking the lid off a Blue Bell container, licking the ice cream, and putting it back in the display case, videos of copycats doing the same thing are now making the rounds on social media.

The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office (APSO) says Lenise Martin III, 36, has been taken into custody after being filmed in a store licking a Blue Bell ice cream container, moving his finger through the container, then putting it back onto the shelf.
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Investigators say after management became aware of the video, Martin returned to the store and showed the clerk a receipt to prove he’d purchased the ice cream.

Management at the store later alerted investigators who questioned Martin.

Deputies moved forward with charges, including unlawful posting of criminal activity for notoriety and publicity, and tampering with property. Martin remains in jail and will have bond set by a judge Monday.

“We discourage anyone from copying this atrocious act,” said a spokesman for the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office. “It is illegal. It’s a health risk to others. We will pursue anyone we see do this. You will be charged.”

The APSO spokesman also said notices have been sent out to investigators informing them that copy cat cases should be dealt with “immediately and with the full extent of the law.”

The business where the incident happened also released a statement saying Blue Bell’s legal team is investigating the matter, and all gallons of ice cream have been disposed of.

Blue Bell said it encourages people to alert their local law enforcement if they are aware of someone tampering with any food item in the grocery store.