# Police probing Quebec maple syrup heist worth up to $30-million **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226 "2012-08-31T03:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/21 "2012-08-31T17:08:16Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > First you got de Beers, and then you got de Syrup. Canada is just as good as South Africa! Hold on. Are you saying that the maple syrup I just purchased might be ‘Blood Syrup’? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/22 "2012-08-31T17:12:59Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > How in the world does someone go about stealing “10 million pounds” of _anything_? The _real_ trick was training the 1 million pounds of ants. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/23 "2012-08-31T17:15:14Z")
“Jesse, we need to cook… Walt Jr. breakfast.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/24 "2012-08-31T17:20:33Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > First you got de Beers, and then you got de Syrup. Canada is just as good as South Africa! Oooh… de taunt. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/25 "2012-08-31T17:31:28Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > “Jesse, we need to cook… Walt Jr. breakfast.” Ha. I thought that when I saw the picture in the linked article with all those steel 55 gallon drums. I thought “Hey, that’s not syrup, that’s methylamine!” ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/26 "2012-08-31T17:37:20Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Ha. I thought that when I saw the picture in the linked article with all those steel 55 gallon drums. I thought “Hey, that’s not syrup, that’s methylamine!” And so yet another idea for a bad Breaking Bad twist ending is inspired … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/27 "2012-08-31T17:40:17Z")
Forget it, Jake, it’s St-Louis-de-Blandford. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/28 "2012-08-31T18:25:13Z")
All they have to do is keep watch over the local supermarkets for bulk buyers of pancake batter and they’ll have their thieves ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/29 "2012-08-31T21:22:36Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Hold on. > Are you saying that the maple syrup I just purchased might be ‘Blood Syrup’? It’s worse than that. Much, much worse. Syrup _is_ blood, the blood of the sugar maple. If trees could speak, the sugar maples would all be screaming in agony. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/30 "2012-08-31T22:19:54Z")
they need to deputize a whole bunch of ants. they will find it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/31 "2012-08-31T22:23:59Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > It’s worse than that. Much, much worse. Syrup _is_ blood, the blood of the sugar maple. If trees could speak, the sugar maples would all be screaming in agony. Crap. No-one was supposed to tell. Now the Global Condiment Monitoring Agency will be on our asses. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/32 "2012-08-31T22:34:44Z")
How does one fence $30 million in syrup without anyone noticing? It’ll be hilarious if it shows up on Craigslist. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/33 "2012-08-31T23:06:17Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > How does one fence $30 million in syrup without anyone noticing? It’ll be hilarious if it shows up on Craigslist. How much maple syrup makes up 30 freaking MILLION dollars worth? It has to be an ocean of the stuff. How does our intrepid thief unload such a score? We have to be talking HUGE quantities here. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/34 "2012-08-31T23:24:41Z")
What I want to know is, is there a global strategic reserve of pancakes? Waffles? Pancake mix? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/35 "2012-08-31T23:30:25Z")
word has it that IHOP, Butterworth and Jemima were behind it. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/36 "2012-08-31T23:39:10Z")
Meanwhile, there has been a recent [influx of bears](http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/officials-in-n-l-meet-to-talk-about-influx-of-black-bears-1.937407) into the next province over. Coincidence? I think not. The bears did it, and have fled across the border. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/37 "2012-08-31T23:59:22Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > How in the world does someone go about stealing “10 million pounds” of _anything_? Back around Nov. 22, 1963, a storage tank in NY (or maybe NJ) that was supposed to be full of salad oil was found to be empty. It would have been a major story and perhaps even caused economic upheaval, but there were other happenings on Nov. 23 that drove it out of people’s consciousness and also closed the stock markets so they managed to paper over it. But how do you empty a storage tank surreptitiously? Maybe, like the oil, the syrup never actually got to the warehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/38 "2012-09-01T00:03:31Z")
I think Pauline Marois should be very afraid then. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/39 "2012-09-01T00:50:18Z")
Canadians are now reporting copycats have also stolen massive quantities of poutine. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/40 "2012-09-01T00:53:57Z")
When Canadians horde maple syrup and poutine, does that mean we’re going to have a severe winter? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226.md?page=3)