# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/61 "2012-09-03T03:55:32Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > And then there Team Canada – World Maple Police. > [@Sunspace](#): > > I have GOT to draw this. What you draw is up to you, but I’m picturing a Ghostbusters-type outfit of people. Jumpsuits, nametags, Canadian flag shoulder patches. And the gear: instead of photon streams, they shoot streams of Canada No. 1 Medium grade. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/62 "2012-09-03T05:11:30Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > What you draw is up to you, but I’m picturing a Ghostbusters-type outfit of people. Jumpsuits, nametags, Canadian flag shoulder patches. And the gear: instead of photon streams, they shoot streams of Canada No. 1 Medium grade. Well, that’s good for the sticky situations. ---
**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, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/63 "2012-09-03T10:44:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > [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. In reality, the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve is primarily for domestic reasons rather than for national security. As a sex aid (drip it on, lick it off), pure maple syrup is so good that without rationing we’d never get any work done. ---
**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, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/64 "2012-09-03T10:50:00Z")
Folks in Alaska have been trying to get [federal standards in place for birch syrup](http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/05p0295/05p-0295-cp00001-01-vol1.pdf). The poor bastards. Long winter nights, curled up with their spouses, and birch rather than maple syrup. Tragic. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/65 "2012-09-03T12:19:31Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > What I want to know is, is there a global strategic reserve of pancakes? Waffles? Pancake mix? I do not believe so, but coincidentally the US does house the Global Strategic Bacon Reserve. I heard that there is a vast underground smokehouse in the Appalachians. ---
**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, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/66 "2012-09-03T12:32:20Z")
On the whole, I would rather blow shit up for the World Bacon Police than I would the World Maple Police. Meatier issues… Either way, we get to destroy Paris, right? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/67 "2012-09-03T13:25:53Z")
Have they figured out who was behind it? Is it the infamous _ **Breakfast Club** _ ? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/68 "2012-09-03T15:07:19Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > That, or it’s them! giant nuclear ants. I for one welcome our new insect overlords… ---
**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, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/69 "2012-09-03T15:17:30Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I for one welcome our new insect overlords… Now fortified with MAPLE! ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/70 "2012-09-03T15:21:40Z")
OMG it’s a global dessert conspiracy! Now it’s Austria! [11 tons of Elderberries stolen without the owner noticing](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/01/robbers-make-off-with-an-estimated-11-tons-of-elderberries-in-austria/) ---
**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, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/71 "2012-09-03T15:26:17Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > OMG it’s a global dessert conspiracy! > > Now it’s Austria! > > [11 tons of Elderberries stolen without the owner noticing](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/01/robbers-make-off-with-an-estimated-11-tons-of-elderberries-in-austria/) Stupid thieves – they spent a week picking berries for a haul estimated to be worth seventy five hundred dollars. They could have got more by spending 5 minutes in a bank. But I like the name of the new enforcement agency. Team Austria – World Elderberry Police. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/72 "2012-09-03T15:28:48Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > OMG it’s a global dessert conspiracy! > > Now it’s Austria! > > [11 tons of Elderberries stolen without the owner noticing](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/01/robbers-make-off-with-an-estimated-11-tons-of-elderberries-in-austria/) No, the culprits are probably the breakfast food illuminati, look for their loot somewhere in Bavaria. ---
**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, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/73 "2012-09-03T15:30:36Z")
Clearly there is a group trying to corner the [Elderberry Maple Syrup](http://puttingupwiththeturnbulls.com/2010/09/01/elderberry-maple-syrup/) market. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/74 "2012-09-03T16:39:48Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > [11 tons of Elderberries stolen without the owner noticing](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/01/robbers-make-off-with-an-estimated-11-tons-of-elderberries-in-austria/) Is [Elton John](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wPA8lWgBRA) being held for questioning? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/75 "2012-09-03T18:41:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Either way, we get to destroy Paris, right? We’ll always have Paris. ---
**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, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/76 "2012-09-03T18:45:51Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > We’ll always have Paris. … in our sights. ---
**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 4, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/77 "2012-09-04T19:33:37Z")
Hey! I thought we got to [del]stomp[/del] destroy Tokyo. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/78 "2012-09-04T20:06:09Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Is [Elton John](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wPA8lWgBRA) being held for questioning? No, but King Arthur’s father has been named as a person of interest. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/79 "2012-09-04T22:49:41Z")
Ian Fleming Movie ahead? **Stickyfinger** , the movie, where an arch villian tries to corner the Maple Syrup Commodity Market Bond has a menage a trois with Aunt Jeminah and Mrs Butterworth while fighting the Stickyfinger’s pet Tiger, Tony and Henchman, the Pillsbury Do-Boy. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226/80 "2012-09-05T03:24:24Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hey! I thought we got to [del]stomp[/del] destroy Tokyo. Oh no! There goes Tokyo! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/633226.md?page=5)