Theory: There never was 15,000 barrels of maple syrup, it was all paper fiction, and someone just cashed in.
Election coming up anywhere?
Insurance fraud is my thought. How exactly do you steal 15000 barrels of syrup ? Where do you get the stainless steel tanker trucks to transport it ? Then who do you sell that much syrup to ?
follow the money
You're probably right. Who would take the time to empty the barrels of this sticky stuff. Why not just take the barrels fully loaded???
They have probably been empty for quite some time or never were full of maple syrup.
And this theft just so happens to take place when they are going to move them into a new facility???
Uh -huh??? Where's Columbo when you need him???