$30 million in maple syrup stolen

The poor sap.

times are getting scarey..neighbors around here have had literally truck and trailer loads of hay stolen this past few weeks

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We all know how this is going to end, right?

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Incredible. I wonder if it went right overseas never to be found. Any Russian mob up there?

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Forget the ship idea. There would have to be a ship moored close enough to have it pumped direct into the tanks and there's no port there. There would have had to be a whole fleet of tankers hauling it some distance to get it to an anchorage in Montreal overnight.

Another thing to point out is that where the warehouse is isn't a huge metropolis where a lot of strange activity would not be noticed. Saint-Louis-de-Blandford has less than 1,000 people. Start up one big Cummings diesel motor at 2AM and the whole city would wake up.

Knowing those facts leads me to believe that the syrup was gone before it got to the warehouse.

Martin

It would take close to 200 tanker trucks to haul that off, or if it was in 55-gallon drums . . . still a bunch of trucks.

Either it 'walked' off a little at a time, or it never arrived in the first place -- short loads that were pencil-whipped instead of weighed -- or it never existed in the first place.

My money is on the last one.

Some of the sweet toothed bandits caught and much syrup reportedly recovered:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/world/...tml?hpt=hp_bn2

Empty BARRELS? Ok, math person, how long does it take to empty all those barrels??

This would not be an easy in - easy out heist.

As my mother would say, "Tomasini no believe."

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Reminds me of an old story. A guy walks out of the factory, pushing a wheelbarrow filled with sawdust. The Security Grard at the gate stopped him. After throughly searching through the sawdust, lets him go. This goes on for years.
Finally the guy is retiring. The Security Guard knew he was up to something but couldn't figure it out. So, on his last day, the Security Guard asks, " OK, you have been going out with sawdust for years. I've always carefully checked it and found nothing. What are you up to?" The guy says, "I've been stealing wheelbarrows.

I read a story long ago of a guy who was driving brand new Lincolns over the border. He was known to police and they searched the car every time he crossed the border. Each time they found a hidden compartment which had three jars in it of three different substances, I think maple syrup, sugar and something else, all of which were perfectly legal to take across the border. They knew he was up to no good but couldn't figure it out. A long time later they realized he was smuggling Lincolns.

Sometimes you just have to give people credit for creativity and having the kajones to actually pull it off right under everyone's nose.

There was another theft in Quebec recently of 400 tons of corn, right out of the storage silos. Somebody obviously knew what they were doing and had the equipment to pull it off.

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