Beer bandits swipe PBR truck hauling 50,000 cans in California, leaving brand pleading for help

FOX News ^ | Aug. 29, 2026 | By Stepheny Price

[ConservativeStatement]

A truck packed with 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer vanished in California and police claim the missing haul could be part of a brazen cargo-theft operation that made off with roughly $70,000 in booze in a single morning.

Pabst Blue Ribbon said its truck and beer shipment were stolen, telling the person behind the disappearance that it understood the temptation to brag about having that much PBR, but wished they had gotten it "the honorable way."

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: beer; pabst; pbr; theft

[Fai Mao]

There are crimes that just make you smile.

[dfwgator]

[Texas Eagle]

They still make PBR??? Why?

[NonValueAdded]

Why? Nostalgia. Picture cans of PBR left at the Vietnam Wall for that promised first beer together when they got back to “the world” that would never happen.

[Bigg Red]

😟

[FreedomPoster]

There are certain hipsters that have brought the brand back around in bars. I sure don’t understand it.

[Blue Highway]

I can feel the hangover from here

[Dr. Franklin]

Why? Nostalgia. Picture cans of PBR left at the Vietnam Wall for that promised first beer together when they got back to “the world” that would never happen.

Well, it was always cheap. No need to leave an expensive bottle at that memorial for some homeless bum to grab, but grabbing a truck load for free is even cheaper, unless they get caught.

[oldeguy]

I remember watching the Friday night fights when I was about 4 years old back in the early 50s. We used to sing the jingle, “What’ll you have? Pabst Blue Ribbon.” Didn’t know they still made the stuff.

[DoodleBob]

One of the greatest movie lines ever.

The gif should be posted in all the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAND PRIX Threads.

[chajin]

Jimmy the Gent is back.

[posterchild]

Which movie is that from?

[PAR35]

PBR was the premium brand. The cheap brew was Red White and Blue

[Antihero101607]

Have Flock cameras revealed the identities of the perpetrators of the Pabst pilfering heist yet?

[PAR35]

Here’s the Johnny Russell hit song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3iVHxP8FQ

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://youtu.be/snhiofL2Rh4

[DoodleBob]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Velvet_(film)

[posterchild]

$70K for 40K lb. Ignoring the slightly less than 1gm/ml for scant ethanol levels and assuming it is pure water at 1gm/ml. that comes to $1.75 per pint. I’m surprised it is that much?

[cva66snipe]

“The Semi’s are passing on the highway outside. Four Thirty Crowd is about to arrive. The sun’s going down and they’ll all soon be here Rednecks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer”