Keep your hands off my Girl Scout cookies!

That's the lesson one Florida woman set out to teach her roommate after the roommate allegedly stole her Thin Mints.

Hersha Howard, 31, of Naples, became enraged when she discovered her Thin Mints missing and went after her roommate with a pair of scissors. Police reports indicate Ms. Howard burst into Jasmin Wanke’s room, accusing her of cookie theft and refusing to believe Mrs. Wanke’s story that she fed the cookies to her children who were hungry late that night.

Police reported that Ms. Howard then struck her roommate with a board, bit her on the breast then struck her several times more with a sign before police were called and Ms. Howard was arrested.

Wow, talk about a cookie monster!

I have to admit that I love Girl Scout cookies. Do-si-dos! Tagalongs! Trefoils! Thin Mints!

And I can kinda understand Ms. Howard’s rage.

We are forced to wait all year for the darned cookies. The prices are kinda high for those little boxes, and with the recession... well, these days, a box of Girl Scout cookies is something of a luxury.

Poor woman probably had the last box hidden. Was gonna have a secret late-night snack after everyone else was asleep...no one to beg...no need to share.

As tenderhearted women, we often share so much with others. Sometimes we just want to keep a little something special for ourselves. Some small treat that we can selfishly call our own.

She probably had waited all day. Salivating. Fantasizing about how good it would be when she was finally alone with her box of Thin Mints.

Then to finally go to her hiding place and find that it had been raided was perhaps more than she could bear.

And there lay Mrs. Wanke, lying...I mean, trying to explain that she fed them to her hungry children.

Probably lying through her chocolate-stained teeth!

So, Ms Howard, I don't have any bail money for ya, but I'm not mad at you, either.

If you need me to write a letter to the judge, I might be willing.

I know you aren't usually a violent person. I know you were provoked in the extreme.

As for the bite on the breast...did you want some milk with those cookies?
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D. Barbara McWhite grew up in York County, SC, and lives in Orange Park, Fla., with her husband and cat.

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