Homeless people save a life after former Food Network chef asks them to murder someone, they refuse

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A former television chef and Food Network host is under arrest in an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving homeless people, Santa Monica police said.

Juan-Carlos Cruz, one-time host of "Calorie Commando," was arrested Thursday and booked on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder, Sgt. Jay Trisler said. He's scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

Homeless people told the city's homeless liaison officers that Cruz asked them to kill someone, Trisler said. They agreed to help police investigate the alleged murder-for-hire plot.

"They felt confident that they could divulge this information and be treated fairly and be listened to," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100515/ap_on_en_tv/us_homeless_murder_solicitation

It sure is a good thing that homeless people didn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps this time.

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1. self-kick because of a bug

[Dappleganger]

2. Why didn't he just make a poison cake?

It would have been so easy...