Police puzzled by $170,000 Vancouver butter theft

by JeffHuang | July 11, 2008 at 04:06 pm | 277 views | 2 comments

I wonder what the criminals are going to do with the butter. I personally think the truck was stolen not knowing what was inside. Maybe they thought it was a truck load of the new iPhone, but I am sure they're going to be surprised when its filled with butter. Or maybe they know it is filled with butter and they have a purpose for stealing it. $170,000 worth. That is A LOT of butter.

A theft of a semi-trailer carrying $170,000 worth of butter has Vancouver and Delta police baffled.

The semi-trailer truck was found in the 8200-block of River Road in Delta, near an industrial park. It had been emptied of its contents.

The truck was stolen Monday around 9 a.m. from the 300-block of Southeast Marine Drive in Vancouver.

"Semi-trailers do go missing on a regular basis, but butter's not a typical product that's stolen," said Const. Paul Eisenzimmer of the Delta Police Department.

"The average corner store that might be interested in buying stolen cigarettes wouldn't likely be interested in butter. Getting rid of $170,000 worth of butter would be pretty hard."

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Sarah Nissen

at 05:51 on July 12th, 2008

This is a pound of hand-churned raw cultured butter from Windsor Dairy in Colorado. It is illegal to buy raw dairy products in Colorado. I buy them by purchasing a share of cows at the dairy and paying a monthly boarding fee to board my cows... Then I am entitled to any products coming from the cows. Silly!

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rpshen

at 08:47 on July 12th, 2008

Wow I like butter too but that's a lot of butter. I have a feeling we're gonna see more incidents like this since the price of food has gone up so much.