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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on August 29, 2004, 01:40:42 AM
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source (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20040827/od_nm/odd_canada_beer_dc)
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.
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Already been posted. It was speculated the FDBs did it. And they're not talking.
Les
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Hi! I'm Bob Mackenzie and this is my brother Doug!
How's it goin' eh?
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I betcha they just burry them somweres in the ground....then everytime they need a case a beer they just dig one up.
No use in selling a product you can "consume" ;)
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id call anyone who made off with fifty thousand beers and didnt get caught a criminal mastermind. this report may have started me down the path to the dark side. gunslinger do you know how to drive big trucks? :)
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It was the Bandit!
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Originally posted by midnight Target
It was the Bandit!
(http://www.star-collector.net/autographs/burtreynolds.jpg)
LOL!
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Originally posted by anonymous
id call anyone who made off with fifty thousand beers and didnt get caught a criminal mastermind. this report may have started me down the path to the dark side. gunslinger do you know how to drive big trucks? :)
It's midnight
We're wearing sunglasses
I have my 5 ton liscens.....
LETS DO IT! :D
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In a related story, 5,000 lbs of salted nuts have gone missing.
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Toga! Toga! Toga! TOGA!