# 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:** 3
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/41 "2012-09-01T00:55:08Z")
I was listening today to a CBC Radio One interview with the director of the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, who said that that was not the only warehouse, and that it held a total of $30 million of syrup, and that not all of it was taken. My impression is that the stockkeepers were caught with their pants down by this. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/42 "2012-09-01T02:14:32Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > 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. If this was a serious question, the owner - Anthony DeAngelis, aka The Salad-Oil King - had a series of underground pipes that would pump oil from one tank to another. It was, of course, a scam. Actually, several scams. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/43 "2012-09-01T02:29:57Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > 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. Damn, those bears are good swimmers ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/44 "2012-09-01T03:10:27Z")
> [@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. “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” ~Jack Handy ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/45 "2012-09-01T08:44:22Z")
The guy sounds like a real sap. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/46 "2012-09-01T09:16:08Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I was listening today to a CBC Radio One interview with the director of the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, who said that that was not the only warehouse, and that it held a total of $30 million of syrup, and that not all of it was taken. Thirty million dollars in maple syrup weighs 10,500 tons. Sixty men would take twelve days to load it onto 200 trucks. Now, at the most, they’re going to have two hours before the Mounties move in and make them put it back. Really, if they had any brains, they’d break into the warehouse and detonate a nuclear weapon. The entire maple syrup supply of Canada would be radioactive for fifty-seven years. There would be economic chaos, and dry pancakes, in the West, and the value of their syrup increases many times. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/47 "2012-09-01T09:56:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Thirty million dollars in maple syrup weighs 10,500 tons. Are you sure about that? 10,500 tons is 21 million pounds. That works out to $1.43/pound, which is a bit low for maple syrup, unless we’re \*really \*getting shafted here in California… ---
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/48 "2012-09-01T14:39:03Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Are you sure about that? 10,500 tons is 21 million pounds. That works out to $1.43/pound, which is a bit low for maple syrup, unless we’re \*really \*getting shafted here in California… I think you’re losing the plot here. Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He’s fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor… except crime! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/49 "2012-09-01T19:56:05Z")
This is easily the best thread we’ve had in a while. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/50 "2012-09-01T20:13:26Z")
Somehow, we are going to get a Canadian Empire out of this. Somehow. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/51 "2012-09-01T20:31:35Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Somebody has been reading John Ringo and taking him _way_ too seriously! It wasn’t me. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/52 "2012-09-03T00:30:54Z")
I wonder if the missing maple syrup was never there in the first place? Buddy What-'is-Name gets paid for ten units of syrup by the reserve, but only delivers nine units, and gives a kick-back to the boys at the reserve who received the delivery, wrote it up as ten, and placed an extra empty unit container on the racks. That, or it’s them! giant nuclear ants. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/53 "2012-09-03T00:33:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Really, if they had any brains, they’d break into the warehouse and detonate a nuclear weapon. The entire maple syrup supply of Canada would be radioactive for fifty-seven years. There would be economic chaos, and dry pancakes, in the West, and the value of their syrup increases many times. Dry pancakes? Nah, we’d just have a happy glow while eating our maple syrup saturated pancakes. ---
**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 3, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/54 "2012-09-03T00:40:49Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I wonder if the missing maple syrup was never there in the first place? > > Buddy What-'is-Name gets paid for ten units of syrup by the reserve, but only delivers nine units, and gives a kick-back to the boys at the reserve who received the delivery, wrote it up as ten, and placed an extra empty unit container on the racks. > > That, or it’s them! giant nuclear ants. You stole this from the cement deliveries to _The Big O._ ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/55 "2012-09-03T01:06:46Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You stole this from the cement deliveries to _The Big O._ Yup. This afternoon I was chatting on the phone with a friend in Trois-Rivières about the construction corruption inquiry. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/56 "2012-09-03T01:27:12Z")
[Why Does Canada Have a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve?](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/why-does-canada-have-a-strategic-maple-syrup-reserve/261869/) I must say, _The Atlantic_ has done a masterful job of disinformation with this report. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/57 "2012-09-03T02:27:30Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > …My impression is that the stockkeepers were caught with their pants down by this. So you’re saying this was some kind of sex crime? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/58 "2012-09-03T02:32:25Z")
This is the funniest story I’ve seen since “Santorum Comes From Behind in Three Way.” Now I’m picturing some NASA-like control room to control and monitor the international flow of maple syrup. And they have Emergency Response Teams to interdict the illegal syrup trade. And there are Supervillains doing their worst to steal or destroy the world’s supply. And then there Team Canada – World Maple Police. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/59 "2012-09-03T02:43:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > And then there Team Canada – World Maple Police. Yeh, that was started by a guy named Mike Pearson at the end of WWII. Funding for it comes secretly from the UN. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/60 "2012-09-03T03:10:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > This is the funniest story I’ve seen since “Santorum Comes From Behind in Three Way.” > > Now I’m picturing some NASA-like control room to control and monitor the international flow of maple syrup. And they have Emergency Response Teams to interdict the illegal syrup trade. > > And there are Supervillains doing their worst to steal or destroy the world’s supply. > > And then there Team Canada – World Maple Police. I have GOT to draw this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226.md?page=4)