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'Dumb-crook' caper swipes 50,000 beers
by IconoclasT at 9:55 pm EDT, Aug 26, 2004

Donde esta mi Cerveza eh?

TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) -- Somewhere in Canada there are thieves with nearly 50,000 cans of beer they will have a hard time selling, although police said Thursday the truck driver who disappeared with the loot has been arrested.

The shipment of Moosehead beer, worth over C$75,000 ($57,000), was on its way to Mexico from an East Coast brewery when it went missing, along with the driver.

The transport truck was recovered last week -- still running -- in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, but with most of its cargo missing.
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The shipment of Moosehead was labeled in English and Spanish for export to Mexico, so it could not be sold in Canada. Nor could it be shipped into or through the United States without proper documentation.

"Its one of these classic, dumb-crook stories," said Joel Levesque, a spokesman for Moosehead.

"They can't sell it anywhere in Canada without giving away the immediate fact that it's been stolen... So we have crooks stuck with 50,000 plus cans of beer that basically they can't fence."


 
RE: 'Dumb-crook' caper swipes 50,000 beers
by Decius at 12:31 am EDT, Aug 27, 2004

IconoclasT wrote:
] Donde esta mi Cerveza eh?
]
] TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) -- Somewhere in Canada there are
] thieves with nearly 50,000 cans of beer they will have a hard
] time selling, although police said Thursday the truck driver
] who disappeared with the loot has been arrested.
]
] "They can't sell it anywhere in Canada without giving away the
] immediate fact that it's been stolen... So we have crooks
] stuck with 50,000 plus cans of beer that basically they can't
] fence."

Oh darn. Seriously. This is Canada. These guys will just drink the beer.


 
 
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