All that is valuable is a thief’s happiness. At the same time, with the price of lemon touching the sky in the market, thieves stole 60 kg of lemon kept in a vegetable trader’s warehouse in Shahjahanpur. The thieves also stole some other expensive vegetables from the godown.
This crazy lemon theft isn’t the only one being reported. After the robbery in Shahjahanpur, now a similar incident has come to the fore in Kanpur as well. Thieves stole around 15,000 lemons weighing 7.5 quintals from the orchards of Kanpur during the last four days.
There are many factors affecting the price of lemons in India, but earlier it was impossible to imagine lemon theft. News18 takes a look at the strangest thefts and our own ‘sour robbery’ from the past.
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Manoj Kashyap, a vegetable trader from Shahjanapur, told that the thieves snatched 60 kg lemon, 40 kg onion, 38 kg garlic and a fork from his godown.
The trader of Bahadurganj Mohalla, who had a shop in Bajaria area, told that when he reached the vegetable market on Sunday morning, he saw that the lock of the warehouse was broken and the vegetables were scattered on the road. On receiving information about the theft in this case, the traders gathered and expressed their displeasure.
A police spokesperson said that they have been apprised of the matter and the thieves would be traced at the earliest. The prices of lemons have increased to an unimaginable extent in recent weeks.
Lemon is selling at Rs 325 per kg and Rs 13 per piece in Lucknow which is definitely more than other fruits in the market.
Thieves in Germany stole a truck with Nutella, Kinder eggs
As NPR reports, thieves stole a refrigerated truck filled with up to 20 tons of Nutella and Kinder chocolate eggs in the German city of Neustadt in August 2017. The sugar price was estimated at around $80,000 in Germany, prompting law enforcement to issue some good advice to citizens: “Someone offered a large quantity [of chocolate] It should be immediately reported to the police through unconventional channels.”
About 260 miles northeast of the missing hazelnut spread, a separate trailer containing 30 tons of fruit juice was mysteriously stolen over the same weekend in Wittenberg.
Stolen Garlic in Australia
A farmer in Victoria, Australia, harvested his entire garlic crop while sleeping in the middle of the night in 2018. About 400 kilograms of garlic worth up to $15,000 were pulled out of the ground during the robbery, which police estimate took only a short time. hours, West Australian reported.
Leah McLeod posted on Facebook that the only thing she had left of her crop was that she couldn’t sell. “They will probably try to sell it at green grocers, restaurants or farmers markets,” she wrote in her post.
Cheese Heist
In 2016, a truck carrying 20,000 pounds of cheese was reported stolen in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Officials confirmed that the semi-truck was stolen from a parking lot storage area early in the morning. According to an NBC affiliate, the truck contained about $46,000 in cheese.
This is not the first time that cheese theft has taken place in the area. Earlier this year, a trailer for cheese was stolen in Germantown, about 30 miles north of Oak Creek. In addition, police recovered stolen cottage cheese at Grand Chute, 120 miles north.
“Cheese pirates are back at it again. It’s crazy that cheese has become so valuable that people are running away with full trucks of it,” Vince Christian of Wisconsin Cheese Mart told NBC26.
Trifling with Truffles
According to reports, truffles are also one of the most decadent targets for culinary-minded criminals. As Mental Floss reports, in 2005, black truffles worth $100,000 were stolen from a warehouse in Provence, France, at midnight.
It was a sophisticated operation, and not just because their target was a Michelin-starred component: crooks traveled through the roof, using rope ladders and night-vision goggles to sneak into the warehouse and access the refrigerator where the truffles were stored. were done.
And finally, Stung by Thieves
In 2017, hundreds of hives were stolen from a beekeeper north of Sacramento, Calif. This is an area densely populated with almond trees that require pollination, and anyone with a swarm of bees can charge top dollar for the service. The case eventually led the police to a suspect named Pavel Tveretinov, who reportedly had 2500 hives, valued at $875,000, stolen from various locations in the area.
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