A spate of truck thefts from rest stops since 2012 across the state of Florida in the USA has seen such severe losses that a task force has been created to curtail further robberies.
Newsweek reports that earlier this year a truck hauling more than 180,000 eggs was stolen in Fort Myers, and a truck full of Slimfast diet shakes was snatched in Orlando. A thief with a penchant for chocolate nabbed a truck laden with Hersheys chocolate bars in Volusia county in Florida.
But the latest was a truck full of premium brand Miller High Life beer (around 9700 four packs) which was taken illegally from a rest stop in Orange County, Florida.
Driver Van Thomas was in tears when interviewed by the local television news station Orlando’s WFTV.
He’d just bought the truck, which was his first big rig, three weeks before the heist.
Fortunately local detectives found his stolen vehicle along with ‘most’ of the beers in Miami where the thirsty thieves had dumped it, several hours after the vehicle was taken from the rest stop.
The moral of the story is to keep your truck close by, and your bottles of beer even closer.
