A delivery truck loaded down with Cadbury chocolate eggs worth an estimated £70,000 ($137,326) was stolen in Staffordshire, UK. The thieves tricked the driver, who had stopped near Lichfield en route from the Birmingham factory to Yorkshire, by telling him his van was losing its load. When the driver got out of his cab to investigate, the men jumped in and drove off with the eggs.
"The amount stolen is a minor quantity on the grand scale of things as we make between 30 and 40 million eggs in our Bournville plant each Easter," said a Cadbury spokesman. But the thieves may end up eating all the snacks themselves, as the Cadbury spokesman said the eggs would be difficult to sell to a reputable retailer.
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By my reckoning that is around 150-200000 eggs. Even I couldn't eat that many and I've banned myself from buying multipacks as I eat them all at once
Back in the late 1980s there was a series of robberies from local
Sizzlers. The thieves were stealing scores of steaks. The police and the
Sizzlers reps kept saying things like 'we can't imagine what they
plan to do with all these steaks, since they can't eat them, and no
reputable restaurant or grocer would buy them.' But it turned out
several big chain restaurants and grocers were buying the
steaks.
History (yes, right up to the present day) is replete with examples of
seemingly reputable retailers reselling stolen or counterfeit goods,
and the Cadbury spokesman is either ignorant, or a liar.
I'm going to Yorkshire next week. Should I take some spare chocolate eggs with me, and flog them at a ridiculous price?
Bob
Just to update you (as if anyone really cares), emergency supplies were sent in to York, so they were fully provisioned. Actually, I think I might have seen the man responsible walking by the walls - he was the same shape as a cream egg. Err, a cream egg laid down on its side.
Bob