Here's another that lives up to it's name, Montana's own.
Nectar of the gods.Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Posted on 08/27/2004 7:31:09 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
TORONTO (Reuters) - Somewhere in Canada there are thieves with nearly 50,000 cans of beer they will have a hard time selling, although police said on Thursday the truck driver who disappeared with the loot has been arrested.
The shipment of Moosehead beer, worth over C$75,000 ($57,000), was on its way to Mexico from an East Coast brewery when it went missing, along with the driver.
The transport truck was recovered last week -- still running -- in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, but with most of its cargo missing.
The 30-year-old driver was picked up in Lindsay, Ontario, about 1,000 miles from Grand Falls. He has been charged with theft but police reported he did not have any beer with him.
The shipment of Moosehead was labeled in English and Spanish for export to Mexico, so it could not be sold in Canada. Nor could it be shipped into or through the United States without proper documentation.
"Its one of these classic, dumb-crook stories," said Joel Levesque, a spokesman for Moosehead.
"They can't sell it anywhere in Canada without giving away the immediate fact that it's been stolen... So we have crooks stuck with 50,000 plus cans of beer that basically they can't fence."
Very little of the stolen beer has been found. Four cans, three of them empty, were found in various parts of the New Brunswick province, according to the police and media reports.
On Monday, police found another 5,000 to 8,000 cans after a half-ton truck with a homemade trailer went off the road in New Brunswick. The driver of that truck fled the scene.
Since I'm fairly sure there are none or few FReepers in Mexico, I'll say it for them:
Todas sus cervezas son pertenecen a nosotros. (All your beers are belong to us).
Sure could throw one helluva party !
The solution ought to be obvious.
Somehow I keep having mental images of Bob and Doug McKenzie hiding out in a backwoods New Brunswick cabin.
With a lot of beer. ;^)
I wonder if that Bear who got drunk last week likes Moosehead beer?
Cops should monitor a spike in a households pizza deliveries.
Until they ummm find a mouse in one of the cans, and go to the Moosehead brewery trying to get MORe free beer... ;0)
Yeah, a case a day between the perps and that's only a five or so year supply.
And everyone knows that crooks who fence property always obey the rules. Nowhere is there one Canadian who would drink a can of beer that hadn't been labeled in French. And crooks would never smuggle beer into the US without documentation! </sarcasm>
Why the hell would you bother to fence it? Just keep it and drink up.
And be sure to invite your buddies! ;)
So what if you poured the contents of the cans into a 5 gallon keg? What happens then?
Selling? Who the heck is selling? Err, I mean, why would those darn crooks want to sell it? =^)
Yeah, I'll bet someone is having one heck of a party.
8000 cans of beer -prox 6,000 pounds- in a homemade trailer.??
Can we say "overloaded", boys and girls?
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