VILLA PARK, Ill. – Someone got way more than the recommended daily serving of vegetables when a refrigerated trailer loaded with $50,000 worth of broccoli was stolen.
The 48-foot trailer disappeared from its rented parking space sometime between Sunday and Tuesday morning, police said.
Detective Ed Zorich said the thief was probably after the trailer, not the vegetables.
“What is someone going to do with that amount of produce?” Zorich said. “On the black market, I can’t imagine that’s something that’s worth money to anybody.”
Police entered the trailer into a stolen-vehicle database, but had no immediate leads.
“We have homicides happening in town,” Zorich said. “We’re not really looking for a truck of broccoli right now.”
Santa pays second visit after bikes are stolen
PENSACOLA, Fla. – When the bikes Dennis and Tamie Leporin bought themselves for Christmas to ride with their young son disappeared from their front lawn, the couple posted a sign to let the thieves know their disappointment.
“I hope U crooks enjoy our bikes U stole; Merry X-Mas,” the sign read.
The next evening the couple heard a knock at the door and found an envelope with $200.
“Inside was a note that read, ‘For every crook, there are 1,000 good people’,” Dennis Leporin told the Pensacola News Journal.
“I thought it was awesome. We moved here from St. Louis, and folks just don’t do that in St. Louis,” he said.
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