A woman has been charged with theft in Taiwan for stealing a yoghurt drink from her roommate after being identified by a DNA test.
According to the broadcaster TVBS, the unnamed suspect in Taipei was sharing a student house with five other women who were studying at the city's Chinese Culture University.
One of her housemates discovered last month that yoghurt drink belonging to her had been consumed without her permission.
She got the bottle out of the bin, and asked the culprit to come forward.
When no one owned up, the victim took the packaging to the police and asked them to carry out an official investigation, which they accepted.
As the bottle was too wet to obtain fingerprints, the owner of the yoghurt asked officers to carry out DNA tests on her roommates to determine who was to blame.
Police instructed all of the five suspects, as well as the woman who had made the allegations, to come to the station to be forensically tested.
As each test cost $US98 and is funded by the taxpayer so locals have reacted angrily to the large amount of time and money spent investigating who ate the yogurt.
[Source: BBC]
