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09/01/12, 05:40 AM
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$30 million in maple syrup stolen
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09/01/12, 06:10 AM
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Finally...... a stolen commodity worth dipping a pancake into. 
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09/01/12, 06:27 AM
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betcha it was the bee's! no nectar so they went after the syrup!
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09/01/12, 06:58 AM
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Liquid Gold !!!!
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09/01/12, 07:15 AM
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maple syrup black market?
You are walking down the street in the city at night. A man in trench coat is standing in a darkened alley. "Pssst, buddy," he says, opening his coat to reveal lots of little leaf-shaped glass bottles, "Wanna buy some maple syrup?"
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09/01/12, 09:33 AM
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Black market maple syrup...who woulda thunk it?
Maybe they are going to throw a really big pancake breakfast--for half of Canada.
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09/01/12, 12:03 PM
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Vampires with a sweet tooth..... who woulda thunk it?
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09/01/12, 12:13 PM
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Lol ... well maybe now they're making crack with maple syrup.
Unbelievable that someone would have the capability to steal that much without being noticed.
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09/01/12, 12:50 PM
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Insurance scam? Market manipulation?
something just doesn't seem right...
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09/01/12, 12:55 PM
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Guess that it does not require a mod to make it "sticky". LOL
Surely they didn't carry it out in their pockets? Reckon how they pulled this off?
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09/01/12, 12:56 PM
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The federation, which is responsible for the “global strategic maple syrup reserve,” fears the sticky-fingered burglars intend to sell the syrup on the black market.
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“global strategic maple syrup reserve" ??????
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09/01/12, 01:49 PM
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wonder what they hauled it away with....
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09/01/12, 03:23 PM
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wonder what they hauled it away with....
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Honey wagons?
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09/01/12, 04:00 PM
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I'm thinking stainless semi tankers......
That's a lotta gallons, and some of those trucks come equipped with vacuum pumps.
Does seem odd no one noticed.
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09/01/12, 06:29 PM
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Honey wagons?
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 That's sick 
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09/01/12, 06:31 PM
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People, and cops, don't pay attention to what looks like a legitimate work crew & equipment. In Dallas several years ago a crew with a truck mounted crane, and a couple flatbeds stole several huge AC units off the tops of industrial buildings just west of downtown. They spent the entire weekend moving from building to building. Nobody noticed.
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09/01/12, 06:58 PM
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Reminds me of the story about the guy who walked into Canadian Tire and walked out the front door with a canoe over his head, then went back for the paddles. Sometimes, if you make it look like you know what you're doing and are supposed to be doing it, nobody thinks to question it.
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09/01/12, 07:23 PM
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A very sticky heist indeed.......
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09/01/12, 10:12 PM
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Maybe.
But this reminds me strongly of the several million bushels of wheat there were stolen out of a warehouse last year, was it? Two years ago?
Turns out, the wheat never existed in the first place, and it was a scam from beginning to end -- the grower neve4r grew it, but sold it to a commodities agent, who sold it to a warehouse, who sold it to an overseas buyer . . .
It all ended when the insurance company that was going to insure it for transport asked to actually see the wheat. Everyone from that first buyer on up knew they had been taken, but instead of reporting it, they lied and passed the lie on to the next buyer.
I wonder if we'll find out that this is very much the same thing?
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09/01/12, 10:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bernice13
You are walking down the street in the city at night. A man in trench coat is standing in a darkened alley. "Pssst, buddy," he says, opening his coat to reveal lots of little leaf-shaped glass bottles, "Wanna buy some maple syrup?"
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Did you take them up on it? Good maple syrup is expensive!
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