Our lovely cousin Amanda alerted us to this hilarious news morsel: Unusual News : U.S. woman charged in murder plot over cocaine brick that turned out to be cheese
"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A woman allegedly tried to hire a hitman to rob and kill some men who she believed had a brick of cocaine in their house, police said. However, the white block turned out to be cheese, and the hitman for hire was an undercover police office.

The woman was in the Memphis home of the four intended victims last week when she mistook a block of queso fresco cheese for cocaine - inspiring the alleged idea to hire someone to break into the home, take the drugs, and kill the men, police say.

Jessica Booth, 18, was arrested on the weekend and remains in jail with bond set at $1 million US on four charges of attempted murder and four counts of soliciting a murder, the Commercial Appeal newspaper reported Tuesday.

The undercover officer gave Booth some non-functioning handguns, bought ammunition for her because she was too young, and the two proceeded to the home under police surveillance.

Booth told the officer that any children inside the house old enough to testify would also have to be killed, police said.

A search of the home with the permission of the occupants revealed no drugs - only the white, crumbly cheese common in Mexican cuisine.

'Four men were going to lose their lives over some cheese,' said Lieut. Jeff Clark, who heads Project Safe Neighbourhoods."