Woman sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing £1.1 million worth of chicken wings

Chicken wings may be a perfectly nice thing to eat, though I myself would prefer a drumstick or a thigh as they have a significantly superior meat to bone ratio.

However, one woman who seemingly loved chicken wings so much that she stole $1.5 million (£1.1 million) worth of them has ended up in prison for the next nine years.

According to WGN, former food service director for Harvey School District Vera Liddell had been accused of stealing large amounts of boxed food which had been intended for students studying remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.

$1.5 million worth of wings... just imagine it. (Getty Stock Image)

There had been a scheme set up where the school would still provide meals for the students which they could pick up themselves.

The US based woman was accused of ordering 11,000 cases of chicken wings from the school's food provider and picking them up herself, the chicken wings never made it to the school or into the hands of the students.

During an audit it had been found that the school district was $300,000 (£235,000) over its annual budget despite only being halfway through the year.

Prosecutors said they found invoices signed by Liddell ordering huge amounts of food, mostly chicken wings, which wouldn't have been served to students since they contained bones.

Vera Liddell pleaded guilty to committing theft most fowl. (Cook County State's Attorney's Office)

She ended up pleading guilty to stealing around 11,000 boxes of chicken wings that she'd ordered and was sentenced to spend nine years behind bars for pilfering the pandemic poultry.

Quite what someone is expected to do with thousands of boxes of chicken wings is unclear, as you'd surely never manage to chomp your way through all of them before they succumbed to decay and pestilence.

Pretty soon you'd end up with thousands of boxes of rotten chicken wings instead.

The world record for scoffing chicken wings is 276 in 12 minutes, a record set by Aussie bloke James Webb.

A lot of the food she stole were chicken wings. (Getty Stock Photo)

After those 12 minutes were up it's likely he didn't want to eat another wing again for a while.

You might be surprised at the sorts of foods people would end up stealing, if you've ever seen blocks of cheese encased in protective packaging at the supermarket that's because they're a valuable commodity in the criminal world.

Not many people have the opportunity to steal £1.1 million worth of chicken wings, instead a lot of the theft is chalked up to 'dine and dash' incidents where someone at a restaurant does a runner before it's time to go and pay.