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    These Teens Got Arrested For Trying To Sell Pancake Mix To Undercover Cops

    IHop they have someone to bail them out of jail.

    Two Chicago teens were caught sticky handed last week after attempting to sell undercover cops a kilo of pancake mix disguised as cocaine.

    According to the Chicago Tribune Rafael Osorio Jr. and Jaime A. Anselmo were charged with "manufacture or delivery at a specified location and manufacture or delivery of a look alike substance."

    The undercover cops arranged a meet up to purchase a kilo of cocaine for $27,000, but when the teens arrived they brought pancake mix wrapped in plastic and tape to give the illusion that it was actually cocaine.

    Now $27,000 for just one box of pancake mix is a hefty price, but I'm curious how many pancakes $27,000 could get you. So let's break this down.

    So basically if we used our $27,000 to buy 13,500 boxes of pancake mix, we could make 324,000 pancakes, which to me seems like a much better deal than spending $27,000 on a kilo of cocaine. But you know, to each their own.

    I'm not the only one having a bit of fun with this case. Chief Jeffrey Swoboda of the Elgin Police Department praised his team in a statement saying, "On a serious investigation like this, we will never short stack our efforts."

    Moral of the story: less cocaine, more pancakes.

    BuzzFeed has reached to the Elgin Police Department for comment.