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Like most people, Alexander Clement, 68, and his 64-year-old wife Christine Clement, love Jello-O brand pudding. Unfortunately, it seems the luxury dessert item was simply beyond their means. Not content to placate their expensive tastes with some vulgar Brand X generic pudding, the Clements devised a fool-proof scheme to eat unlimited Jell-O pudding without winding up in the poorhouse. And they would have gotten away with it, too—if it wasn't for those meddling supermarket managers.

Christine Clement allegedly bought the pudding boxes from four Long Island stores, removed the delicious mix, then refilled the boxes with sandwich bags containing salt and sand before returning them for refunds. A Swiss watch! But after supermarket employees returned the boxes to the shelves for resale, the Clements' elaborate scheme unraveled. New customers who purchased the tampered packages discovered the altered contents and complained. (Nobody was injured by the adulterated packages, police tell 1010WINS.)

Investigators followed "leads" and surveillance video to track down the couple, who were arrested Sunday and charged with five counts of petty larceny and five counts of second degree tampering with a consumer product. Suffolk Police Lt. Michael Murphy tells Newsday that Mrs. Clement did not understand that the returned boxes might go back on store shelves. As for Mr. Clement, Murphy said, "He knew it was wrong what she was doing, but he was the dutiful husband who drove his wife to do what she had to and stood by while she did what she did. It's bizarre. I like having answers and I don't have them for you." Please, accept the mystery.