OK, now tell me I'm crazy. I am posting the entire article from the Chicago Tribune. (The Tribune has no vested interest in produce.)
ANOTHER VEGGIE HEIST
Trailers filled with cookies, fungicide also disappear
By Dan P. Blake
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 3, 2007, 12:36 PM CST
First broccoli, then asparagus.
In the second area produce caper in a little over a week, Chicago police this morning were searching for up to four vegetable-laden tractor-trailers believed stolen from a Bridgeport neighborhood truck yard early New Year's Day.
The trailers—among them a 40-footer and a 20-footer—were reported missing by a security guard who noticed them late New Year's Eve but found them missing when he returned for work the next day, Wentworth Area Sgt. Gregory Jackson said.
The containers vanished from a transportation facility in the 1500 block of West 33rd Street on the city's Southwest Side. They typically are transported via train and then connected to the back of a semi-trailer cab, Jackson said.
The containers held various items, one primarily asparagus, with other items including fungicide powder, and chocolate crème sandwich cookies, police said.
One of the containers was refrigerated, Chicago Police Officer Marcel Bright said, adding that the refrigerant chemicals are considered hazardous if released into the atmosphere. Detectives are tracking the shipping manifests as part of their investigation.
Chicago police asked anyone with information about the trailers to contact them at 312-747-8382.
Last week, a 48-foot refrigerated trailer went missing from a parking lot in west suburban Villa Park.
In both the city and suburban incidents, police believe the thieves were after the trailers rather than the vegetables.
"What is someone going to do with that amount of produce?" Villa Park Police Detective Ed Zorich asked last week. "On the black market, I can't imagine that's something that's worth money to anybody."
Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune
So, what's with all this death, divorce, and vegetable activity, all occurring simulatneously? What is it? It's driving me mad!
Help me.
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