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OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman has been fined $1,142 after pleading no contest to prostitution charges after she was accused of accepting a box of chips for sex. Police said they arrested 36-year-old Lahoma Sue Smith in southeast Oklahoma City after finding her in her car with a man who told officers he knew he could find a prostitute in the area.

Smith told officers the man said he didn't have any money so she agreed to accept a $30 case of chips as payment.

The man was not charged and his name hasn't been released.

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Information from: The Oklahoman, www.newsok.com

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 

"The man was not charged and his name hasn't been released"?? How about Mr. Pringle? Charles Chips? Or... okay, you knew this was coming... were the chips Lay's? (And if they were Pringles, were they stacked?)

More important, where is the justice here? She wound up paying $1,142 for a damned case of chips, and he walks away? These ridiculous victimless crime laws have got to go.

(Sorry, I can't let go of this. The article actually says "she was accused of accepting a box of chips for sex." Is that really what she was charged with?

Judge: "Mr. Prosecutor, what is the charge against this defendant?"

Prosecutor: "Accepting a box of chips for sex, your honor."

Judge: "Potato or corn?"

Prosecutor: "Potato, your honor."

Judge: "Natural or machine formed?"

Prosecutor: "Natural, your honor."

Judge: "Bar-b-que, extra crispy, rippled, or Mesquite flavor?"

Defendant: "Your honor, I wish to plead No Contest."

Judge: "Ms. Smith, do you think that's wise?"

Prosecutor: "I object, your honor—they weren't Wise.")