"Canada Thieves Pull Off Big Maple Syrup Heist"

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#1

“TORONTO—Sticky-fingered thieves made off with almost 30 million Canadian dollars (US$30.4 million) worth of maple syrup from a strategic reserve in rural Quebec”

“Late last week, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers found empty barrels that had contained a total of 10 million pounds of maple syrup during a routine inventory check.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443864204577623482582471766.html

Is this a joke? Maple syrup “strategic reserve”? Someone stole 10 million pounds of maple syrup? This story just keeps getting more ridiculous.

#2

hahahaha

i had to check like 3 or 4 other sources before i believed this

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/millions-of-dollars-in-maple-syrup-stolen/

#3

How the hell do you steal 10MM pounds and not get noticed??

#4

The most impressive part is they left the barrels so presumably people wouldn’t notice for awhile. Which means individually picking them up and emptying 10MM pounds of syrup into something. If I were a detective I’d just put out a search for on extremely ripped dude.

#5

Ocean’s Fourteen will be about this.

#6

Haha, thats hilarious.

#7

Maple syrup shortage soon?

Insider trading if the thieves traded before it became public?

#8

I didn’t realize that the Loonie was backed by maple syrup. RBC must have felt that gold was overpriced.

#9

Maybe it’s one giant insurance scam. The article said the syrup was insured. Maybe the syrup was contaminated and they knew they couldn’t sell it anymore and decided to stage a massive heist to collect on the insurance

#10

Someone send iteracom to http://www.auditorforum.com.

#11

Yes, I’m sure the Maple Syrup is the reason for that search lol

I actually thought this was an Onion news story when I saw it. Didn’t believe it – too funny to be true lol

#12

hmm

steal 30m worth of syrup

syrup prices sky rocket

sell 30m worth of syprup for 50m… genius…

#13

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/police-seize-hundreds-of-barrels-of-syrup-possibly-linked-to-quebec-maple-heist/article4585027/

#14

Wth?!? Lol this is awesome.

#15

Did people sell short the insurance company?

#16

Yes, like the people tht bought puts on September 10, 2001.

#17

I wonder if they’re all part of the same gang as those Canadian cheese smugglers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19751695

#18

Some years ago a big consignment of Viagra was stolen from Heathrow cargo area and the Scotland Yard was frantically searching for some hardened criminals.

#19

jolly good show

#20

And this is why I love living in Canada