Update on Peanut Butter

[Snowparrot]

MONTREAL -- In Montreal's trendy Plateau district, food vendors are the new favourite target of five-finger discounters, with some bold cheese thieves costing them hundreds of dollars a day.

"People are stealing all the expensive items," Natalie White of the Fruiterie du Plateau said yesterday. "It costs us up to $200 a day."

The pricey items -- mostly cheese -- disappear constantly up customers' sleeves at the food shop nestled among restaurants and clothing retailers. Retailers believe most of the thefts are individuals who snack on the swiped items themselves.

Police believe some of those items are resold by organized criminals.

Yet "the police don't do anything," White said. "When we catch someone, we call them right away, but they tell us they're busy."

Employees can't search shoplifting suspects, even if they can catch them. Store owners have had enough, with many installing security cameras. Several have started posting photos of the offenders in their windows. Police wouldn't say whether they agree with having people's photos displayed in a store.

"They're not breaking any laws that we have to apply as a police service," said police commander Alain Lariviere.

[ragtopW]

shoot them.....

[fruitcake (aka drunkgirl)]

The pricey items -- mostly cheese -- disappear constantly up customers' sleeves at the food shop nestled among restaurants and clothing retailers. Retailers believe most of the thefts are individuals who snack on the swiped items themselves.

I've heard people also stick food in their jeans.. such as peanut butter and sardines...

[CrznDnUS1]

This shows the contrast between Canada and Mississippi/ Alabama. Up north they steal fine cheeses and down in the deep south they steal sardines and peanut butter. Jimmy said they spent all their money on weed that is why they were starvin'. Is it still legal up north .

[RinglingRingling]

The pricey items -- mostly cheese -- disappear constantly up customers' sleeves at the food shop nestled among restaurants and clothing retailers. Retailers believe most of the thefts are individuals who snack on the swiped items themselves.

I've heard people also stick food in their jeans.. such as peanut butter and sardines...

perhaps this is where Tommy Bahama got his peanut butter fixation...

[Quiet and Shy]

This shows the contrast between Canada and Mississippi/ Alabama. Up north they steal fine cheeses and down in the deep south they steal sardines and peanut butter. Jimmy said they spent all their money on weed that is why they were starvin'. Is it still legal up north .

I'd always thought that, too.

But they actually spent their money on "draft" not "grass".

[RinglingRingling]

This shows the contrast between Canada and Mississippi/ Alabama. Up north they steal fine cheeses and down in the deep south they steal sardines and peanut butter. Jimmy said they spent all their money on weed that is why they were starvin'. Is it still legal up north .

I'd always thought that, too.

But they actually spent their money on "draft" not "grass".

oh sure, stereotype Canuckistanis as loveable, beer-swillin', du Maurier-puffin', guys... Clark MacDonald is ruling there with an iron fist (a reference to 'Canadian Bacon' and Wallace Shawn... )

[Snowparrot]

Thanks (I think) for your defence of Canucks, R2

And a note on legalities: draft is legal, but grass isn't, although enforcement can be lax, I've heard. Mind you, there's mostly no place you can smoke anything indoors in Canada.