Breaking News: Canada
 

Canadian police seize 600 barrels of missing maple syrup
:1orglaugh

"We got our syrup back A"

Breakfast fans, rest assured: Your French toast and pancake toppings are a little safer this morning.

Police have made their first major breakthrough in the great maple syrup heist of 2012, after Canadian authorities seized 600 barrels of maple syrup that was allegedly stolen from a Quebec facility.

In September, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers reported that a large percentage of its reserve appeared to be missing after conducting a routine inventory inspection at the province's global strategic reserve site at St-Louis-de-Blandford.

Quebec produces 80 percent of the world's commercial supply of maple syrup.

A local exporter said police approached him and said they intended to search his business property in an investigation related to the missing syrup. "They came in and said we're taking everything, there wasn't much I could do," said Etienne St-Pierre, who told The Associated Press he initially thought the officers were joking.

St-Pierre said the syrup awaiting export on his property was delivered by his usual group of suppliers.

In the meantime, the AP reports that the confiscated 600 barrels of syrup are being escorted aboard a "heavily guarded" convoy of 16 trailer-trucks as they make their way back to the strategic reserve in Quebec.

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Crazy how something as simple as syrup needs protected transportation nowadays but the truth is, as our climate keeps getting warmer up here, it's fucking up the maple run. Causing many people to lose their asses over it. Only flows once a year during a very specific time frame and depends on near-exact temperatures to get the flow started. It's literally sweet gold.

I knew our " war on syrup " would be succesfull !!!!! :)

what a sweet story :Oh crap

I bet it was Americans behind it

Liquid Gold!!!!!

What a interesting story.... LOL. I wondered what happened to that syrup...

That's "eh" not "A." Good to see we got our man :)

80% of the supply? get some better security! :disgust eh elli :)

This thread makes me want waffles.

that shit is about a dollar an OZ in Florida, 600 barrels could be a cool million bucks lol

Shit. Canadian Maple Syrup is cheaper to buy in Australia than it is in Canada?

attack moose didn't work, I guess.

Pancakes tomorrow to celebrate. woohoo

Florida is not in Canada

:1orglaugh that funny eh

LOL @ "global strategic reserve" of Maple syrup.

Nobody better fuck with our syrup. Or beer, or smokes, or back bacon.

Meh, might as well be, eh :thumbsup