You’ve seen the television commercial where the kid doesn’t like the toaster pastries his mom serves him for breakfast. A friend asks the boy, "What do you do with all of them?" Using a garage door remote, the kid opens the door to reveal a garage overflowing with thousands of pastries.

That’s a cute commercial, but this week we have a true story for you about a father and daughter team who get caught up in a caper with similarities to the toaster pastry caper. I’ll try not to get ahead of myself.

Belinda and her dad, Henry, are busted in Ohio for hijacking a grocery truck whose destination is a Wal-Mart store somewhere along the eastern seaboard. The father-daughter team make off with the truck which is loaded with 30,000 pounds of Act II popcorn.

Where do you hide that much popcorn? You guessed it. But who’d ever think to look in a garage for 15 tons of popcorn?

Police worked it out, but not in the way you’d think. A brief aside here: I have a detective friend who likes to say: "If I didn’t have bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all!"

There was a tiny bit of luck that led to the recovery of the popcorn. Belinda’s brother, Henry II, was being investigated in connection with a murder case at Ohio State University. Police got a search warrant to check the house for traces of a body. When investigators looked in the garage they found, not a body, but nearly 2,000 cases of golden popcorn.

Did Belinda’s brother kill the student from Ohio State?

I think they’re still working on that.

How were Belinda and her dad planning to get rid of 30,000 pounds of popcorn?

I heard they watch lots of television, but I really don’t know the answer to that one, either.

What about the Wal-Mart truck that got hijacked?

Still not recovered. But if you spot an empty tractor trailer with a strong odor of popcorn—send me an e-mail.