A woman is facing terror-related charges after allegedly coughing on $35,000 worth of produce at a Pennsylvania grocery store in what the storeowner called a “twisted prank” amid heightened fear of the novel coronavirus.
The woman walked into Gerrity’s Supermarket in Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday and starting “violently coughing and spitting” on the produce, store manager Leonard Karabon said, according to a police complaint obtained by the Times Tribune newspaper. “I have the virus.
Now everyone is going to get sick,” the woman said, according to the complaint. She also forced herself to vomit at one point and tried to flee with a case of beer, the complaint alleges.