$30 million in maple syrup stolen
 

Things that make you go, hmmmm.

Maple syrup heist threatens Quebec

Finally...... a stolen commodity worth dipping a pancake into. :thumb:

betcha it was the bee's! no nectar so they went after the syrup!

Liquid Gold !!!!

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?"

Black market maple syrup...who woulda thunk it?

Maybe they are going to throw a really big pancake breakfast--for half of Canada.

Vampires with a sweet tooth..... who woulda thunk it?

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.

Insurance scam? Market manipulation?

something just doesn't seem right...

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?

“global strategic maple syrup reserve" ??????

wonder what they hauled it away with....

Honey wagons?

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.

:eek: That's sick :pound:

big rockpile

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.

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.

A very sticky heist indeed.......

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?

Did you take them up on it? Good maple syrup is expensive!

Use to have Grain brought in with Owners name on pieces of paper all through it almost impossible to get out without cleaning.

I worked Security at Bass Pro,had a Guy walk out with Shopping Cart full of stuff.No one thought to quetion him.

big rockpile

Maybe they stole it, poisoned it, and then it will be "found" and sold "as is"?
Mass poisoning?

that explains the packs of "maple sugar" that you find for sale at Quebec gas stations!! horribly addictive!! and now my Daughter wants to move there!:eek::help::doh:

What a sticky situation.

I think it was last year that a couple 18 wheelers of tomatoes disappeared from a truck stop. Maybe more than one Bermuda triangle?

Let's do a little math, for fun.

30 million, they say.....

50 bucks a gallon would be a fair average price, if for nothing more than argument's sake, and it's a round number.

A 6000 gallon semi tanker would hold 300,000 dollars worth.
That's 100 semi loads, if I get an A in my math.....

That would be kinda hard to hide.

forerunner see my original post.... odd indeed!

It was you and Narshalla that inspired me to go mathematical. :)

Sweet!

Sweet Toothed bandits sought:

Quebec police looking for thieves with craving for maple syrup | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME

Look real hard, now.

100 stainless semi tankers blend in real good. :lookout:

depending where in Quebec the warehouse is, it would not be hard to hide that many tankers! drop off your load of milk and go get your syrup! some very isolated industrial sites in Quebec! only time the Sûreté du Québec seem too stop any one is if they have Ontario plates!:nana:

Well, an A in Math, but must be a bit off on the price (wholesale vs. retail?) :shrug:

according to the numbers in the story...

"Worth $30 million, there was enough maple syrup in the warehouse to fill one and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools, or about 3.75 million litres, federation director Anne-Marie Granger Godbout said. "

3.75 million litres times 0.264172 = 990,645 gallons
so, 165 of the 6000 gallon tankers, with a bit of maple syrup left for waffles...
:rolleyes:

I think I'm correct in saying that you have to clean and sanitize the tank between commodities so you can't just drop off your milk, go get a load of syrup then go back and get a load of milk. I also think that the transfer systems for the two products might be different due to the different consistencies. I think it's more likely that it disappeared in smaller quantities over time and there is probably some creative accounting or inventory management going on. It's possible that there was never any syrup in the barrels in the first place.

the tankers here are cleaned at the plant, that way the milk does not dry and become impossible to wash and the truck is sterile . just one of the ways that maybe it got moved, Quebec produces and processes a lot of milk!
what ever happened may never be known.

Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve???? I thought that's what we had in our shop. Ah, so I was wrong, again! The whole thing sounds a bit fishy to me.

I think Truckinguy is the culprit.

He just knows too much! :eek:

I have no idea what you're talking about and those barrels in the backyard are full of water... yeah, water, that's it... :teehee:

I deliver water for a living and we only deliver municipal water because we fill wells and cisterns and other drinking water facilities. However, we have one truck with an 8000 gallon trailer that delivers spring water only and he has to have his tank sanitized twice a year, I think.

That makes sense, you don't want the milk in there any longer than necessary. We use old milk tanks, some of which have baffles in them but I understand the new milk tanks don't have baffles due to the increased surface area of the baffle providing more area for bacteria to grow.

That big a theft, the syrup was loaded onto a ship and it was out of the country before sunrise. Nobody is sitting around hoping the neighbors don't notice a few dozen tanker trucks in their driveway.