#19 Samplotage

To sabotage a sampler by nibbling on some or all of the samples on selection.

Detective Vivian slipped into her latex gloves and ducked under the yellow crime tape to examine the scene of the crime. It was clear to her as she opened the lid of the defiled Whitman's Sampler box that the crime was premeditated, as the perpetrator had nibbled his or her way through every single confection, row by row, with one mysterious exception—the Messenger Boy had been left intact. As she placed the Whitman's Sampler into the evidence bag a tingling sensation went up her spine. This was not an ordinary act of samplotage. No, this was the work of a psychopath. 

Root = Sampler + sabotage