{"id":34239,"date":"2019-07-09T03:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34239"},"modified":"2019-07-09T03:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:15:05","slug":"police-find-viral-ice-cream-licker-but-theres-a-catfish-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34239","title":{"rendered":"Police find viral ice cream licker, but there&#8217;s a catfish twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mondrian.mashable.com\/uploads%252Fstory%252Fthumbnail%252F98956%252F37144b4f-dad3-428b-bf99-00bd62629b69.jpg%252F575x323__filters%253Aquality%252880%2529.jpg?signature=WUhkgzosG6E3eaByl1J3grsaRy8=&#038;source=https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&#038;text=Police+find+viral+ice+cream+licker%2C+but+there%27s+a+catfish+twist&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fblue-bell-ice-cream-licker-police-catfish%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-e71baf64f2ec58d01cd28f4e9ef6b2ce0370b42fbd965068e9e7b58be198fb13.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fblue-bell-ice-cream-licker-police-catfish%2F&#038;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-8e3bd31e201ea65385a524ef67519d031e6851071807055648790d6a4ca77139.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials have identified and interviewed the woman who was recorded licking ice cream and then returning the tub to a supermarket freezer.<\/p>\n<p>The viral video posted on Twitter on Jun. 29 shows the young woman licking Blue Bell ice cream while the person recording the video spurrings her on. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter users carried their repugnance at the unsanitary act. On Jul. 1, Blue Bell thanked buyers for alerting the company of the tampering. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take this issue very seriously and are currently working with the appropriate authorities, &#8221; the company said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Hello! We want to thank our consumers for notifying us to the recent food tampering incident. We take this issue very seriously and are currently working with the issuing authority. For more information, please click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uampapt2l8\">https :\/\/ t.co\/ Uampapt2l 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Blue Bell Ice Cream (@ ILoveBlueBell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ILoveBlueBell\/status\/1145841501886435328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/blue-bell-ice-cream-licker-police-catfish\/\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> More about <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/instagram\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/police\/\">Police<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/catfish\/\">Catfish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/web-culture\/\">Web Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/blue-bell-ice-cream-licker-police-catfish\/\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement officials have identified and interviewed the woman who was recorded licking ice cream and then returning the tub to a supermarket freezer. The viral video posted on Twitter on Jun. 29 shows the young woman licking Blue Bell ice cream while the person recording the video spurrings her on. Twitter users carried their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19084,2677,1242,2623,15864],"class_list":["post-34239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-catfish","tag-culture","tag-instagram","tag-police","tag-web-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019%252F07%252F06%252Faf%252F37144b4fdad3428bbf9900bd62629b69.eb665%252F1200x6301562642107.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}