SANTEE, Calif. — An Ohio woman told medics that she ate bed bugs and saline solution while she was “stranded.”
The 53-year-old woman claimed she was stranded because her car was towed to a nearby mechanic shop, according to the T and D.
Police responded to a report of a “suspicious person” in a store parking lot in Santee last Monday and found the woman, who asked the officer for shelter because she didn’t “feel like sneaking into a hotel room.”
When that request was denied, she told the officer she would steal something in order to be taken to jail.
When the officer told her about the penalty for stealing, she decided she wanted to go to the hospital, the T and D said.
When medics arrived, the woman told them she had ingested an unknown amount of “crabs, crab eggs, bed bugs and saline solution.”
She was transported to the hospital.