Posted on 10/30/2012 1:21:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
Authorities are investigating two thefts of more than 80,000 pounds of walnuts from Northern California valued at about $300,000.
The Tehama County Sheriff's Office received a call from a freight brokerage firm on Friday reporting that a 40,000-pound truckload of walnuts never arrived in Miami as they were supposed to.
Authorities believe the culprit is the same person who also picked up another load of walnuts (each load weighing 40,000 pounds) days earlier from Los Molinos. Those walnuts were intended for Texas, but also disappeared.
Deputies tell the Record Searchlight of Redding the man who picked those walnuts up was not the person hired for the job. They have not identified the suspect although they do have a suspect description.
CLASSIC Dick Van Dyke episode ....
I’ll have to use that method (or something like it) next year when the next bumper crop of black walnuts drops!
Was there another method of acquiring the walnuts for all of the Romney victory brownies we are cooking for Tuesday evening? Sheesh.
They didn’t actually steal the trucks - just the loads. A driver pulls up to the terminal with a truck and trailer and says he is supposed to pick up a load for XYZ... brokers - the dock guys load the trailer and away you go. It happens quite frequently actually - I see it at least twice a year at one of my terminals (never successful on me). Losing a truck and trailer would be in the ballpark of a quarter mil - I run a fleet of 43 trucks for my business; you never just misplace a tractor trailer!
First the Great Maple Syrup Caper. Now the Walnut Heist. Maybe Paul Bunyan has a sweet tooth ...
Leave it to California to steal Texas’ nuts. What next! :)
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