Canada Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve Pilferage
Yea Canada knows what’s important … though not so much on guarding it …
Sticky-fingered thieves made off with almost 30 million Canadian dollars (US$30.4 million) worth of maple syrup from a reserve warehouse in rural Quebec, the provincial body responsible for managing the production of maple syrup said late Thursday. That’s more than a quarter of the province’s extra supply—stored each year to protect producers’ from the ups and downs of global supply and demand.
You can read the rest at the WSJ.
11 September 2012
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Inside job, eh?
It wasn;t easy but it was WORTH IT!! Pancakes anyone??
Question is: How did they manage to steal ‘more than 15,000 oil drum-style barrels’?
Aliens.
Mator?