Hard to say. Its not exactly a rare commodity.
How do you fense 10 million pounds of syrup?
They’ll pin the blame on some sap.
In Other News:
Waffle House has just hired dozens of new security guards to protect their waffle stash from possible theft.
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10 million lbs would be over 15,000 drums of the stuff. How does one steal that without drawing attention to oneself?
I am guessing it was an inside job.
Someone is getting a jump on the Black Market Sugar demand that will come about in Obama’s suppossed 2nd term! I imagine thing like a bag of sugar will get you further than a wad of inflated currency if barry gets his way.....
That’s 5,000 TONS of maple syrup.
Good grief, that is almost 42 fully loaded train cars (coal cars carry about 120 tons each) or about 167 fully loaded semis.
Someone’s idea of security was an epic fail...
I just realized I need some tactical maple syrup to go with my tactical bacon.
You can't have strategy without tactics.
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Someone had sticky fingers.
Theory: There never was 15,000 barrels of maple syrup, it was all paper fiction, and someone just cashed in.
Election coming up anywhere?
That's a sticky question that might require a little waffling.
I can just picture a bunch of thieves looking at each other in their hideout saying “Now what?â€.
Is that a news story or the plot to a Dudley Dooright cartoon?
All pointless now that their location has been compromised.
When Prohibition began, Jack Daniels was required to send their entire inventory to a bonded warehouse in St. Louis.
Several years later, Federal Inspectors decided they wanted to take advantage of their position to imbibe the good stuff and tapped one of the barrels ...... and found it was full of water. Continued investigation revealed that all of the whisky in all of the barrels had been replaced with water. Lets just say that they were mighty angry.
[ from “Blood and Whisky: the Life and Times of Jack Daniels”].