The International Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

[Guest]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/quebec-maple-syrups-strategic-reserve/article1972076/

 "In a nondescript warehouse in the village of St-Antoine-de-Tillytown, some 40 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, there is a 6.3-million-kilogram stash of maple syrup.  About 60 kilometres further south, another 1.4-million-kilogram cache is squirrelled away in Plessisville.  Together, these stockpiles are officially called the International Strategic Reserve, which works like a Fort Knox for Canada's most-cherished breakfast condiment."

 

[dhromed]

 You're drunk.

[DOA]

 Ah, great, now the terrorists know.

[Guest]

@dhromed said:

 You're drunk.

Then how was I able to calculate that 7.7 million kilograms of maple syrup is slightly more than 1.5 million gallons.

 

 

Oh wait . . . .   never mind.

 

[Guest]

@DOA said:

 Ah, great, now the terrorists know.

This just in:  The RCMP has foiled a plot to crash trucks filled with waffles into the warehouse.

 

[Guest]

Truth is stranger than fiction

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1249877--maple-syrup-heist-threatens-quebec-s-reserve-of-canada-s-sweetest-export

 A "large quantity" of maple syrup was stolen from the warehouse.

[Steve_Leve]

saw the story initially on NPR; 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/31/160401054/thieves-hit-warehouse-holding-30-million-of-canadian-maple-syrup?ft=1&f=1001

one of the most hilarious crimes of which I've heard.

I believe (baselessly) that it was perpetrated by sasquatch.

[Ben L.]

@pakrat said:

saw the story initially on NPR;



	

	
		

			

				
					

    

        


            
            

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                    Thieves Hit Warehouse Holding $30 Million Of Canadian Maple Syrup
                
            
            

            
            

                
                    
                
            
            

            
            

                In Canada, a remote warehouse that was holding millions of pounds of maple syrup recently became the scene of what may be "the sweetest heist of all time," as a Canadian newspaper calls it.
            
            
        
    


				

			
		
	


one of the most hilarious crimes of which I've heard.
I believe (baselessly) that it was perpetrated by sasquatch.

FTFY

[Guest]

@Ben L. said:

@pakrat said:

saw the story initially on NPR; 


	

	
		

			

				
					

    

        


            
            

                Aug 31, 2012
            
            

            
            

                
                    
                    
                    
                    Thieves Hit Warehouse Holding $30 Million Of Canadian Maple Syrup
                
            
            

            
            

                
                    
                
            
            

            
            

                In Canada, a remote warehouse that was holding millions of pounds of maple syrup recently became the scene of what may be "the sweetest heist of all time," as a Canadian newspaper calls it.
            
            
        
    


				

			
		
	


one of the most hilarious crimes of which I've heard.
I believe (baselessly) that it was perpetrated by sasquatch.

FTFY

The thing I found funniest about this story is the total incompetence of the reporting.  I found at least three different reports of the theft and every one started off by saying that $30 Million worth of maple syrup had been stolen.  But then later in the same article it says that $30 Million is the total value of all the syrup stored in the warehouse, and that the actual quantity stolen is "unknown".