36,000 Pounds of Crisco Stolen in Florida

[NQ6U]

Talk about your slick capers. From the Miami Herald (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/deadline-miami/article2701293.html).






A semitrailer truck stolen from a towing company was carrying approximately 36,000 pounds of Crisco sticks destined for delivery to a Publix distribution center in Lakeland, according to St. Petersburg Police Department reports.

The truck, a red 2005 Volvo with the Florida license tag 523 93P, had "NS Express LLC, Bowling Green, KY 42104" on both of the cab doors, police said; the trailer was a white Hyundai model with the Florida license tag 445 0PP. They were parked at Coastal Towing in St. Petersburg at the time of Sunday’s theft.

In addition, police said thieves broke into another trailer carrying boxes from the Amazon distribution center in Ruskin. A number of boxes were opened and their contents removed, but it was not immediately known what items were stolen.

[K7SGJ]

Probably pulled off by a couple of lard-asses. I'm sure when the cops catch them they're gonna grease em.

[VE7DCW]

The stuff thieves cook up!........ Geeeeeeeezus! :-D

[KG4CGC]

Can be used to make explosives.

[N8YX]

I wonder who's going to bring the rubber sheets...

[N2NH]

Must be filming one heck of a porno.

[w0aew]

They're gonna grease some palms?

[W3WN]

OK. Fine. Keep up the bad puns. You know that when you do so, you're heading down that slippery slope...

[K7SGJ]

OK. Fine. Keep up the bad puns. You know that when you do so, you're heading down that slippery slope...

The number of people doing this are ahead by a wide margarine.

[K4WGE]

Can be used to make explosives.

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=108;t=000573

[W5BRM]

Can be used to make explosives.


http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=108;t=000573

"Its not Bomb. It just go moosh"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_qMhbkvoJ4

[kd6nig]

They had someone at the local rail yard a few years ago who would drive along the fence line and grab a few cases off of each trailer after popping the seal. I got a few of them at my facility and alerted the rail yard, my facility wasn't the only one to raise the alarm.

I don't think they ever caught the guy, but the security company they were using (thankfully not the one I work for!) wound up paying for half of the missing cargo. They were supposed to patrol the fence line every hour on the hour during night hours, and even had a TOCO wand (used to "touch" button-like sensors mounted along the patrol route) to prove they were doing the proper patrols.

It was discovered that the night guard had popped the "buttons" off the fence and stuck them to a piece of paper which was then hidden in a file cabinet in the guard house. Every hour he would pull the sheet out and touch each button in order, waiting a few minutes between touches to make it seem like he was doing it.

Soon after that they switched to a GPS based system that the guard carried that would show a "track" of where the person had walked, instead.

Had the person done their patrols properly, they would have noticed the hole in the fence this person was using to make entry. Only trailers within 25 yards or so of the hole were broken into, which was easily tracked by the spots they were parked in. There were 3 holes along the fence line. After the fence was fixed and the tracking improved, they also improved the lighting in the area so the fence line was lit up much better as well.

I don't know the dollar value of the items swiped, but it wasn't cheap. Even a case of food items, depending on the item, is usually around $20-50 a case, if not more.

[W3WN]

Josh,

You just reminded me of a story about a local ham. I won't name names or calls, but if you ever want to know who I'm talking about, just PM me about the ham involved in Dayton, the Gunnplexer, and I-70...

At one point, this person (no, I'm not going to call him a gentleman) worked for a security firm as one of their overnight guards at a facility. He was often heard chatting into the wee hours on one of the county's wide coverage repeaters (I won't say which one, but I can look out my window at work and see the tower this repeater is on).

So one night, someone asked him why he was in the security office and not out doing his rounds. He answered something to the effect that he'd figured out a way to "beat" the system, so that instead of doing his rounds & checking in (something like the TOCO system you mentioned, exactly what I don't know) every hour, he just had to do it once.

If the thought occurs to you that this wasn't exactly the smartest thing to say on a wide coverage repeater...

About a week later, he informed everyone that he'd just been laid off. Budget cutbacks on the contract, you know. Temporary, he was told (or so he said).

AFAIK, he was never called back. And he never figured out why.

[kb2vxa]

The first two comments had me rolling!

Posted by Morrison's Lament on 07 April, 2004 03:16 AM:
Don't try the Ammonium Nitrate soufflé either [Wink]
--- G.

Posted by WonkoTheSane on 07 April, 2004 04:58 AM:
Mexican food... talk about explosive...
Wonko

I can't help but add:
Three li'l chilun layin' in da bed
Two were burnt an' da udder one daid
Sent fo da farmun, the farmun said
The oven blew up makin' sho'tnin' bread

Moral of the story:
DON'T use Iraqi recipes!

[kd6nig]

Josh,

You just reminded me of a story about a local ham. I won't name names or calls, but if you ever want to know who I'm talking about, just PM me about the ham involved in Dayton, the Gunnplexer, and I-70...

At one point, this person (no, I'm not going to call him a gentleman) worked for a security firm as one of their overnight guards at a facility. He was often heard chatting into the wee hours on one of the county's wide coverage repeaters (I won't say which one, but I can look out my window at work and see the tower this repeater is on).

So one night, someone asked him why he was in the security office and not out doing his rounds. He answered something to the effect that he'd figured out a way to "beat" the system, so that instead of doing his rounds & checking in (something like the TOCO system you mentioned, exactly what I don't know) every hour, he just had to do it once.

If the thought occurs to you that this wasn't exactly the smartest thing to say on a wide coverage repeater...

About a week later, he informed everyone that he'd just been laid off. Budget cutbacks on the contract, you know. Temporary, he was told (or so he said).

AFAIK, he was never called back. And he never figured out why.

Not very surprising. At times I have to help out with overnight checks where we go and check on guards to make sure they aren't sleeping and doing what they are supposed to. I've had to have people called in before because we caught them doing just that.

I believe the reason though that the security company only paid 50% was because the driver was supposed to verify an intact seal before picking up the trailer-and they didn't. So they showed up to my line, I went to verify the seal and there was nothing-which means not only did the driver not follow protocol and contact security to get another placed onto the trailer before it left the yard, but the person at the gate didn't verify it either, or something like that.

A lot of this does actually happen, I've heard of quite a few times where a trailer was somehow removed from a yard, usually without anyone monitoring it. Even gates with a keypad don't close instantly, if another truck comes up behind the one going in, they can often "block" the gate before it starts to close and keep it open to get in, and most of them don't require a code on the way out...so someone could, in theory (though they would likely be on camera for sure!) go into a place like that and take a trailer. Usually they wind up being found, emptied, a few miles to a few hundred miles away. They must take them to a warehouse somewhere and offload them into another truck/vehicle.

People don't realize all of the stuff that goes into transporting, especially food. Seals to ensure the load wasn't tampered with, devices they put into the trailers to track temps if its required to be kept like that (and most refer units also have a USB type thing they can put in them to track as well) and stuff like that. Lots of verification and tracking, and GPS is on most trailers nowadays as well.

But, if people find a loophole like the guy here did and if someone would have found out at the site you mention, who knows how much they would have lost before someone noticed. I was honestly surprised the yard didn't pick up on it, although broken seals do happen, they should have noticed a pattern pretty quickly. Supposedly it happened off and on for almost a month. Probably the reason why the security company only picked up half the bill-other people including the yard people themselves and the trucking companies involved should have noticed there were an awful lot of seals missing. Someone in management wasn't auditing the logs or number of seals being reissued as well. I know the facilities I oversee require someone to sign for seals if they are issued. They should have noticed quickly that more were being used to reseal trailers.