AKIPRESS.COM - A woman has been jailed by the Irish courts for causing criminal damage to a €1.50 (£1.30) packet of crisps, BBCreports.
Kathleen McDonagh, aged 25, opened some Pringles in a Tesco in the city of Cork before she had paid for them.
The woman had been banned from the store, and told the court she opened the crisps so that security would be forced to let her pay for it.
Instead, she was sentenced to two months in prison for damaging the product, which could no longer be sold.
The judge was told that McDonagh had a series of previous convictions, including a number for theft or criminal damage.
The judge, however, decided to impose a four-month prison sentence with two months suspended, noting that the accused had deliberately opened the product when asked to leave by security. He said that is was difficult to see her actions as anything but "smart Alec behavior".