mug shot o’ the week: the hobbit poisoner

The Hobbit Poisoner

Yes indeedy, according to The Smoking Gun, teenage Rosie Cotton-lookalike Katherine Smith was understudying a fifteen-year-old for the lead in a high school play when she decided to take the casting into her own hands.

Having spread the word to family and friends that she was actually playing the lead in the school's production of the no-doubt immortal "Ha," she then dosed the actual star's Mountain Dew with Clorox bleach.

Ah, if Bruce Springsteen gets ahold of this story, teenage ballads will never be the same.

Perhaps he should collaborate with Nick Cave.

Smith, who used an eye dropper to place bleach in the 20-ounce soda bottle, told a school administrator that she wanted to harm the lead actress "so she could not perform in the play." Smith's plot was thwarted when the girl smelled an unusual odor emanating from the Dew. Pictured [above] in a Tarrant County Sheriff's Office mug shot, Smith faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the spiking bid.

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