Police arrested a St. Petersburg, Florida, woman for ruining an estimated $2,000 worth of ice cream by urinating, spitting and sticking fingers into the frozen treats. According to local reports, the incident took place at Lu Lu’s Ice Cream Shop in Indian Shores.

Jung Soon Wypcha, 66, was charged with criminal mischief and tampering with consumer products after Indian Shores police reviewed videos showing her behavior over three days at Lu Lu’s Ice Cream Shop. In the footage taken on June 17, Wypcha was allegedly seen using the bathroom her business shares with the ice cream shop. Wypcha runs Indian Shores Food Mart next door. She allegedly went to Lu Lu’s organic ice cream freezer and put her hands into the tubs.

In the video, Wypcha was also caught picking her nose then putting her hands in the product and later spitting into ice cream containers.

On June 18, she attempted to open an ice cream freezer and failed. Again on June 22, she went to use the bathroom but found the door locked and urinated in a bucket used to churn ice cream.

Paul Chiulli, who owns the ice cream joint, said all the tainted treats had to be destroyed and that the store was closed for four to five days for public safety. It reopened about a week ago.

“I guess she wasn’t liking that we were getting popular,” he told local media.

Wypcha was released Monday night in lieu of bail, set at $5,000 for the criminal mischief charge and $50,000 for the tampering charge.

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