In 2012, the city of Quebec was home to the world’s largest maple syrup heist. Thieves made off with fifteen thousand barrels of syrup from a warehouse in St.-Louis-de-Blandford. Seriously, who the hell needs that much syrup?
To put this theft into perspective, Canada is known as the world’s largest producer of maple syrup and this one heist was roughly a quarter of their national reserve!
The stolen syrup was worth over thirty million dollars and authorities feared most of it ended up on the black market. Was a sad day for pancakes…