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March 24, 2019

THERE IS NOTHING LOWER

Thief steals 140 sap buckets in Vermont

(Thanks to pharmaross)

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We know how strongly Canadians and Vermonters feel toward their maple syrup. I do not claim any knowledge besides what Google gave me (sap buckets hold 2 gallons - 140 full sap buckets would yield just 40 gallons of syrup - average price per gallon from VT $30), but this is worth ~$1200 for one guy, plus a LOT of labor.

Get a rope, if they ever find the perp. He's the one with sticky fingers.

This is why we need to reinstate the death penalty.

What a drip.

If Texas had maple syrup trees, stealing the syrup would be a hanging offense.

Sap Bucket Thieves opened for Every Mother's Son at the Fillmore in 1969.

This definitely sounds like a sticky situation.
Now what am I going to put on my pancakes?

40 Gallons of syrup? I'm going to need a lot more pancake mix. Shoulda brought a bigger pan.

Officer Butterworth is on the job.

Some sap stole the buckets.

All Sap Buckets are on Oprah.

I saw the Renegade Sapsuckers open for Phish.

My brother and I got the bright idea to make and sell our own maple syrup one year. We tapped about 100 trees and thought we'd sit back and collect our easy money. No.
We had to collect from all the buckets every day, during the coldest and snowiest Ohio winter I can remember. Chopped countles logs to make the fire last long enough to boil a couple hundred gallons of sap down to about 30-40 gallons of syrup. Oh, and did anyone ever tell you that if you happen to drink sap in copious amounts, which tastes like really sweet water, that your digestive system gets its own version of a "sap run"? No one told us, either. So that was an added feature.
Anyway, I think we would have been happy to have someone steal those ?!$&@! buckets.

@ Stixnstonz-I think that is what is called the "spring runoff".

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