What kind of magic ritual would demand a million liters of maple syrup as material component?
Rain of Syrup.
We should make a check on the companies that make pancake batter to see if enough is missing to cast a transmutation on the ground to make continent sized pancakes.
Delicious theory. Of course it all turns to mud after the spell wears off.
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The villain plans to poison the syrup, and the movie will end with a dramatic fight over bioling tanks of maple syrup, in which Bond will throw the villain.
"He's got a pretty sweet deal"
You win.
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That article forced me to collapse onto my desk with laughter. Maple syrup?! How do you FENCE that much maple syrup? What do you DO with it? More importantly, who decides: "Hey, I'm going to go steal the maple syrup. ALL OF IT."
Insanity.
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That article forced me to collapse onto my desk with laughter. Maple syrup?! How do you FENCE that much maple syrup? What do you DO with it? More importantly, who decides: "Hey, I'm going to go steal the maple syrup. ALL OF IT."
Insanity.
Love it.
this is pretty much everypony's reaction i think P
That's just a guess, but I would image they plan to can it and sell it in Alberta or something, because crossing the border would probably be too risky. They could make a ton of money if they're not caught.
For the people asking why the reserve exists in the first place, you have to understand the industry. All of the commercial maple syrup producers have to be in the Coop, and it controls the price and the supply of syrup. So they have a big stockpile to insure there's still supply on years like this one when the thaw is early and very rapid and the production is super low. So yeah, in Quebec. we have a semi-evil maple syrup producers coop with a mandatory adhesion and a monopoly on the market. Yeah us!?!?!?
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"Number 1, how goes the plan to curse the world with Diabetes?"
"It is on schedule Dr Evil. We have seized the Canadian syrup supply and are ready to move on to the next stage."
"Excellent. The world will suffer from diabetes unless they pay me... one MILLION dollars! Mwahahaha! MWAHAHAHA! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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I hate to kill a running gag, but nowhere in that article does it even suggest that they got all of the syrup.
There's probably not more than enough barrels to fill the bed of a pick-up or maybe a flat-bed missing. I wouldn't bet that they've lost more than a couple hundred gallons of the stuff. Enough to take notice, but probably not enough to do any serious damage.
Even so, this still begs the questions, WHY? and what could you even do with that much maple syrup?
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Even if you only stole a tenth of the total reserves, you would still have 340,000 litres of maple syrup.
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Breaking news! Canadian officials have released a composite sketch of the perpetrator.
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I hate to kill a running gag, but nowhere in that article does it even suggest that they got all of the syrup.
There's probably not more than enough barrels to fill the bed of a pick-up or maybe a flat-bed missing. I wouldn't bet that they've lost more than a couple hundred gallons of the stuff. Enough to take notice, but probably not enough to do any serious damage.
Even so, this still begs the questions, WHY? and what could you even do with that much maple syrup?
It does say that they stole $30 million worth of it though. Anyone feel like calculating the volume of $30 million of syrup? Whatever it is, it's a lot, levying me to agree with SamBurke:
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What really, really, puzzles me is: HOW DID THEY DO IT? I mean, we're talking MILLIONS of gallons. Did they drive an oil tanker through the wall?
"Hey, we wanted to park this here, and, uh, leave a suspicious hose attatched to it, which also just happens to be attached to your gigantic oil maple syrup reserve..."
Seriously though, how did they do it?
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Well, one liter will sell for maybe USD 20. (I think? I last bought maple syrup a year and a half ago, my mum or grandmother buys it otherwise.) So USD 30M would be 1.5M liters, as a rough estimate. If so that's half the reserve.
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