The prime suspects!
Posted on 02/05/2025 5:08:07 AM PST by Red Badger
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Pennsylvania State Police are searching for suspects after 100,000 eggs were allegedly stolen from an egg distributor in Franklin County.
According to police, officers responded to Pete & Jerry’s Organics in Antrim Township for a reported theft of 100,000 eggs. The eggs were stolen from the back of a distribution trailer on Feb. 1 at 8:40 p.m.
Police said the stolen eggs hold a retail value of $40,000.
Police have yet to announce any possible suspects. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information regarding the theft is encouraged to contact Pennsylvania State Police Chambersburg at 717-264-5161.
We are all eggotistical!......…..
They will not be coddled.....
But they put all their eggs in one basket.
The way egg prices are going, they should save them and sell in a year or so. $$$
Maybe she’s off hatching something.
IIRC, she told me she was 80 way back. She may have passed away.................
:^(
That chicken can cluck out “conjunction junction” like nobody’s business.
The prime suspects!
That guy’s trouble. WWII is the easter your worries when he’s around.
. A 2022 fire that destroyed one chicken house at a Lebanon, Pennsylvania, farm killed about 250,000 chickens. A 2023 fire in a Bozrah, Connecticut, chicken coop killed about 100,000 chickens.Fires at chicken farms and food processing plants are common. A 2022 National Fire Protection Association report found that from 2014 to 2018, there were about 930 structure fires annually at livestock or poultry storage facilities, which includes barns, stockyards and animal pens. Heating equipment or electrical equipment malfunctions were those fires’ leading causes, the report said.
Birgitte Messerschmidt, the association’s research director, told PolitiFact in 2022 that fires at food production sites are "nothing out of the ordinary."
Animal Welfare Institute data shows that in 2023, more than 480,000 animals were killed in barn fires. That total includes about 300,000 chickens killed in fires at farms in Connecticut and Delaware. In 2020, 1.6 million animals died in barn fires, the institute said.
Seems like they focused on refuting an outlandish (12 mil) claim about Texas, to deny any abnormality. However, claims need to be substantiated, at least before going public as fact.So far this year, more than 31,000 farm animals have died in fires, the institute said. Its data counted 10,000 chickens killed in the Texas fire but noted that the number is believed to be much higher.
The institute’s 2022 report on barn fires said "improper use of or malfunctioning heating devices and other electrical malfunctions" were suspected or determined to be what caused most of the fires.
Our rulingAn Instagram post claimed a Texas farm fire that killed 12 million chickens was part of a larger conspiracy to attack the nation’s food supply. The number of chickens killed, although undisclosed, was far fewer, said the farm’s CEO. And authorities have ruled the fire a "noncriminal accident." - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/26/instagram-posts/texas-chicken-farm-fire-revives-baseless-conspirac/
Meanwhile, the Feb. 2023 PF report cites over 350 chicken death by fire, but add to that is one from USA TODAY on May 30, 2024: Massive fire breaks out at Illinois farm housing over 1 million chickens. - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/30/fire-illinois-poultry-farm/73908555007/
And 200,000 chickens burn to death in vast Minnesota farm fire: -https://www.theblaze.com/news/egg-farm-fire
Plus 60,000-80,000 chickens burned down in the Dade City, Florida blaze, - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-thousands-chickens-die-florida-barn-fire-n1251597
May I suspect Pete & Jerry?
Who?......
I thought you meant Ben And Jerry’s!.........
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