30 million dollars worth of maple syrup stolen from Quebec world syrup reserve!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/08/31/montreal-maple-syrup-theft.html



Thieves in Quebec have made off with a massive haul of maple syrup worth up to $30 million in an unusual burglary targeting the world's most important association of producers of the Canadian confection.

Quebec provincial police are investigating after the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, in an inventory check of one of its warehouses, noticed that a large number of the barrels it uses to store its maple syrup were empty.

The warehouse, in St-Louis-de-Blandford, 160 kilometres northeast of Montreal, held about 3.4 million litres of bulk maple syrup and is part of a global strategic reserve of the sticky liquid.

The federation of producers said the Sûreté du Québec and an auditing firm are determining exactly how much the thieves took.

"The St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse had been secured by a fence and locks, and visited regularly," federation president Serge Beaulieu said in a news release.

The statement said the syrup was being held at the warehouse temporarily while the finishing touches are put on a new storage facility in nearby Laurierville, Que. It was supposed to be transferred over the coming weeks.
Insured

If the entire warehouse's contents were stolen, it would represent more than a tenth of Quebec's 2012 harvest, and more than a quarter of the federation's inventory.

The stock of syrup was insured, the federation said, so its members will not lose financially.

The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers is the industry association for the province's 7,500 producers, and administers a bulk sale system with quotas on individual operations. The federation also keeps nearly 13 million litres in syrup in three warehouses to stabilize global supply and prices.

Quebec produces three-quarter's of the world's maple syrup. The province's output hit 33 million litres this year, down about five per cent from last year but way up from the lean harvest of 2008.
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HAHAHAAAA! Hilarious.

What I want to know is, what type of thieves just wake up one day and decide that they aren't going to rob anymore banks, or gold depositories. Instead, their gonna pull the biggest syrup heist the world has ever seen, and then sell the goods all on the syrup black market. (does a syrup black market even exist?!?!)

 

That is funny, not the theft of course, but I never really considered the possibility of having maple syrup reserves. Poor Canada. It should be pretty easy to figure out though, that's a lot of product to fence and very few outlets would have the capacity to do it under the radar...

 

$30,000,000 in maple syrup? How do you smuggle that much syrup?

 

In bulk no less, that would require a lot of trucks...

I can't wait for the movie to come out on this one! It will be like Strange Brew meets the Italian Job...

 

diguise it in motor oil cans?

 

Sacre bleu. And winter is coming!

I hate maple syrup.

 

The Strange Sticky Job

 

I'm now dedicated to keeping this on the front page, I want to know what Canadians think on this. It is funny in a weird way, especially since its the overly French Quebecites or whatever you call them. I'm still wondering how the hell you fence millions of liters of bulk syrup...

 

As a Canadian....my national pride is hurt, but i am unsure if it should be......cause it was taken from Quebec.....


(perhaps with the PQ on track to winning an election in Quebec, the Canadian government was scared of lossing the maple syrup if Quebec becomes it's own nation and send in the military to steal it)

 

Obviously you have not purchased maple syrup lately!

That stuff is getting as expensive as gold!

Its about $25/quart, thus $100/gallon.

A tanker truck holds about 10,000 gallons.

So ONE tanker truck holds about $1 MILLION worth of maple syrup!

 

LOL, I mean it, that was funny!

Thanks!

 

At this point, it is a legitimate theory

 

Sorry, I was actually very amused. I hadn't taken into account the validity of the charge. Which I find equally funny, I simply can't respect a place that won't even allow you to call French Fries, french fries, and demands you call them pomme frittes!

I'll have to look into the possibility. I love learning more of my soon to be annexed cousins of the North...

 

I now plan to write a whole book on how the maple syrup industry controls Canadian politics, much like the military industry in the U.S...except much tastier

 

Still, that means at least 30 tanker trucks were used. Either money changed hands with some people behind closed doors, or were dealing with some of the most elaborate clever and sneaky thieves ever. seriously. This is Oceans 11 type stuff.

 

I'll pay for an advanced copy, but you gotta promise to sign it!

Oh, in case you are wondering the annexation thing is a joke that started a long time ago with a few other Canadians, so take no offense at the moment...

 

This heist is actually pretty impressive, regardless of whether or not its an inside job, that would take a lot of time to pull off and nobody was the wiser... The results will be armed guards for maple syrup, how strange does that sound...

 

indeed.

But how do you sell that much syrup underground without it being traced back to you?

 

I don't know, the loss would be staggering if it was done quart by quart, so it has to be in bulk to make any real money, and who the hell fences maple syrup? The whole thing is just funny, I mean wrong, but (*)(*)(*)(*) funny!

 

I love maple Syrup. Back in my poor days the one thing food related I would never skimp on (when I could even afford it) was maple syrup. I have never and will never buy that Aunt jimima and log cabin crap that claims to be maple syrup but is really just corn syrup with food coloring in it.

I find it amazing food scientists have still not been able to truly reproduce the flavor. In every blind taste test the results are always the same. people know the real from the fake.

 

I totally know what your talking about, I used to buy the Canadian brand with a prominent maple leaf on the bottle of syrup, that was quality stuff... Hell I even skimped on beer in college for that stuff! I don't think we've ever agreed on anything, this is a fun conversation! I couldn't find a picture of the brand I used to buy, I'm a bit better off now, so its top shelf for me now!

There simply is no substitute for the real deal!

I still want to see the movie when this all comes unraveled, no way it can't be part comedy!

 

Sweet!!!!!!!

 

I think everyone can agree on at least one thing if its obscure or random enough... like a certain sugary liquid poured onto food .

And yeah, a syrup heist movie would be the bomb. Hollywood's been out of fresh idea's for quit a while now. Maybe they should take a look at the real world for some inspiration .

 

Actually there is probably much we could agree on, but we all love duking it out here... And no I can't argue against a certain sugary liquid poured on food, unless its bacon, that's just wrong... yeah, talking about McDonalds here...

This would be the greatest movie in a long time, because nobody would ever even believe its real...