The International Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve
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"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."
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You're drunk.
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Ah, great, now the terrorists know.
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@dhromed said:
Then how was I able to calculate that 7.7 million kilograms of maple syrup is slightly more than 1.5 million gallons.You're drunk.
Oh wait . . . . never mind.
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@DOA said:
This just in: The RCMP has foiled a plot to crash trucks filled with waffles into the warehouse.Ah, great, now the terrorists know.
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Truth is stranger than fiction
A "large quantity" of maple syrup was stolen from the warehouse.
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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.
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@pakrat said:
FTFYsaw the story initially on NPR;
one of the most hilarious crimes of which I've heard.
I believe (baselessly) that it was perpetrated by sasquatch.
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@Ben L. said:
@pakrat said:
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".
FTFYsaw the story initially on NPR;
one of the most hilarious crimes of which I've heard.
I believe (baselessly) that it was perpetrated by sasquatch.