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Woman assaults ex with box of chocolates because he ate all the good ones

By Melissa Carter
Nov 4, 2015

Vanessa Farmer, 45, couldn't wait to eat the sweets in a box of chocolates she bought. But when she opened it up to eat one, she found that David Clare-Gray, an ex-boyfriend that she was still living with, had already indulged in the treats.

He'd eaten all the candies except for two – a praline in milk chocolate and a vanilla truffle with little almond pieces.

The box originally contained 20 pieces of chocolate.

Annoyed, Farmer threw the Nestlé Dairy Box at her former partner.

But Clare-Gray is a law enforcement officer.

He had Farmer arrested for assault, and she was in a holding cell for almost 24 hours.

"All I did was throw a chocolate box. I didn't do it to hurt Dave, but I still got arrested. I'm not a nasty person. Common sense just doesn't seem to prevail," Farmer told the Sunday Mirror.

Farmer said the box, which hit Clare-Gray on his "big belly" shouldn't have hurt him "because he's fat."

The charges were eventually dropped, but she was stuck with a $7,700 legal bill.

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