Hey Ontario, sorry for your loss.
Two tractor-trailers carrying 70,000 cans and 44,000 bottles of Moosehead Lager were stolen early Wednesday morning at a transport company’s facility in Mississauga, Ont.
The beer company says the retail value of the load is $200,000.
Moosehead isn’t necessarily my favorite beer north of the border, but 100,000 beers being stolen is unfortunate regardless of the brand.
Thing is, this isn’t the first time, and the other time was better:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/08/24/beer_nb040824.html
Police have found the truck driver who went missing last week along with more than 50,000 cans of Moosehead beer on the way to Mexico.
Acting on a tip, two RCMP investigators from New Brunswick went to Ontario and located 30-year-old Wade Haines in Lindsay, about 130 kilometres northeast of Toronto. He’s currently being interviewed.
Haines disappeared at the same time the beer was stolen somewhere between Fredericton and Grand Falls, N.B. The tractor-trailer he was driving was found last week near Woodstock, N.B.
On Monday night, police discovered nearly 8,000 cans of the stolen suds in a trailer that went off the road near Woodstock.
At the crash site, they found a half-ton truck with a trailer and the beer, which is labelled in Spanish and English. There was no sign of the driver.
* FROM AUG. 23, 2004: 4 beer cans found, 53,996 still on the lam
Police are still looking for the rest of the shipment, worth $75,000, and the driver of the half-ton truck.
There’s got to be a Bob and Doug reference in this somewhere. Moosehead is the new Elsinore?
Bob the Moose is free!!!!
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Bonokoski_Mark/2007/10/05/4551458.php