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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: HaRuMaN on August 31, 2012, 02:21:08 pm
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/millions-of-dollars-in-maple-syrup-stolen/?hpt=hp_t3 (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/millions-of-dollars-in-maple-syrup-stolen/?hpt=hp_t3)
I guess the price of real maple syrup is going to go up now... :banghead:
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sugar source for an illegal distillery? ;D
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There is something hilarous about how seriously the article is written considering they are talking about something you put on your waffles.
I can understand them getting in a panic over the theft though. That's a lot of money! It isn't like maple syrup grows on trees ya know!
Oh wait...... ;D 8) ;D
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There is something hilarous about how seriously the article is written considering they are talking about something you put on your waffles.
You haven't seen.......?
(also in Canada)
BBQ Chip Bandits...Busted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4AHuy8eybY#)
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If 10 million pounds is worth $30 million... then 1 million pounds is worth 3 million...
...if they stole "millions of dollars" of syrup...
...then it is likely that they stole over 1 million pounds of syrup.
How the hell do you steal a million pounds of anything?! :dizzy: :dizzy:
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It isn't like maple syrup grows on trees ya know!
Harvesting the stuff does take time. The tapping season is about a month or two (where I live, it's even shorter than that). If I go on vacation I can miss it. Takes about a day to fill a 3-5 gallon bucket if the tree is up to it. Then it has to be cooked down to condense the sugars. So a million gallons of the stuff represents an awful lot of trees.
On a more serious note, I say all of you are wrong. Totally way off base on what the thieves are going to do with the syrup. Somewhere, those thieves are planning something sinister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster).
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On a more serious note, I say all of you are wrong. Totally way off base on what the thieves are going to do with the syrup. Somewhere, those thieves are planning something sinister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster).
Dude I was totally thinking exactly that before I moused over the link! :cheers:
My kids and I head over to that spot occasionally during the summer. It's right in the middle of the Italian section of Boston and the food there is awesome. Can't say I have ever smelled molasses on a hot day.
I did spot this in the spring in an obscure corner of the waterfront behind a tennis court, though. Wonder how long ago that was and how it worked out for the dude.
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/551672_3971152287623_983510683_n.jpg)
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It's a hard death to imagine. Killed by a wall of molasses moving at 35mph.
I've got one (the brick). It's down at a local kids park as part of their yellow brick road.
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Hmmmm. If the majority of people were like me, there would be no need for syrup of any sort. Anyways, I be they're going to sell it in third world countries like crack in first world countries.