The Weirdest Heists Ever Committed

By Editorial Staff in Bizarre On 26th December 2016

From honey to Nutella, these crooks thought they were pulling off major heists when they stole their treasures. Thankfully, the law sees the theft of a chunk of gold the same way it sees the theft of a truckload of maple syrup.

#1 The Great Chicken Wing Caper

It didn't happen in Buffalo, but close. Chicken wings are the new hot black market item, apparently. Thieves are stealing meat companies and leaving behind the expensive steaks and taking hundreds of thousands of pounds of chicken wings. In 2015, a father and son, Paul Rojek, 56, and Joshua Rojek, 33, both of Syracuse, NY, stole more than $40,000 worth of wings from a New York restaurant where they worked and sold them on the street, or to other businesses. They would order the wings for the restaurant then pick them up later and sell them cheaper to their own customers, all on the restaurant's food bill. Two other would-be thieves stole $65,000 in frozen Tyson chicken wings from Nordic Cold Storage where they worked in Georgia.

#2 Cheese Heads

Wisconsin is cheese country, but this is ridiculous! Police received a 911 call in June of 2016 that a white semi truck with no markings was loading cheese from a warehouse. That was $20,000 worth of real Wisconsin cheese. Two weeks before that, over $70,000 worth of cheese stolen in Germantown was later recovered in Milwaukee. And that's not all. 41,000 pounds or parmesan cheese was stolen a week before that incident, with a street value of $90,000. Police have yet to find anyone involved in any of the heists, but locals are asking that they put out mouse traps.

#3 Somebody Got A Lot Of Pumpkin Pie

People need pumpkins in the Fall, especially in October when it's time to carve a jack-o-lantern. In October of 2016, a surveillance camera captured several men making three different trips to Farms View pumpkin patch in Wayne, New Jersey. After all three trips, the crooks got away with 192 pumpkins. The farm has been operational since 1894 and offers a Halloween themed display called "Happy Jack," a talking pumpkin, as well as cider and donuts. The farm operates on a shoestring budget and makes most of its yearly money on the pumpkins.This theft set them back $3,000. No word yet on who took the pumpkins or why but it may have been the work of The Great Pumpkin.

#4 Mobsters Love Nutella

Ranking right up there with jewels, cash, and cars, Nutella is the next big thing to try and steal if you're Toronto tycoon and organized crime member Bill "King of Car Thieves" Dhaliwal. He was a major crime boss known for stealing cars, trucks, jewels, robbing banks, and even kidnapping. When police finally raided his warehouse and residence they found Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Porsches, BMWs, and Lexuses, e-cigarettes, alcohol, crates of beer and a truckload of Nutella valued at $30,000. It just goes to prove that even hardened criminals can not resist the gooey chocolatey, delicious hazelnut spread.

#5 The Great Maple Syrup Heist

Yes, they really have a maple syrup reserve and it's in Canada. In 2013, six million pounds of syrup, worth $18 million, was stolen from the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, a cache managed by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers. For real. The 'cartel'oversees about 75% of the world's maple syrup supply just like OPEC does with oil. The crooks rented space in the same warehouse as the oil reserve and over the course of a year they siphoned the gooey goods while the guards were gone. 30 People were arrested in the case with only 2/3 of the syrup recovered. This made for a sticky situation.

#6 The Waiting Is The Hardest Part

Now, this makes one wonder just what the workers at this store were doing while on the job. Thieves pretending to be department store dummies got away with stealing $10,000 worth of designer duds at a Beales store in Worthing, UK. In an unbelievable display of creativity, the thieves stood motionless in the store for over 12 hours, until staff had gone home and the store was empty. They then picked out the clothing they desired and went packing right out the front door. Police are still wondering how they managed to get inside and back out without setting off the store alarm system.

#7 Somebody Got Her Nails Done

She had more makeup than a clown on helium. Tierra Hughley, 27, stole over $2000 worth of nail polish, false eyelashes, makeup, skin cream, and eyeliners from a CVS in Hobe Sound, Florida. When the store clerk discovered she hadn't paid for the goods, he met her at her car. She briefly struggled with a sheriff's deputy and was charged with felony grand theft, driving without a license and violently resisting arrest. It was a real nail-biter!

#8 Today's Menu WILL Include Soup

Eusebio Diaz Acosta drove off with a tractor trailer that was running at a rest stop in Southern Florida but got a shock when police chased him down. Several police units pursued him by helicopter and a K9 unit for nearly 30 miles on a Florida stretch of the state turnpike before he was pulled over and arrested on multiple charges. His cargo? A truckload containing $75,000 worth of Campbell's soup! He presumably did not know what he was stealing, but his prison meals are really "Mmm Mmm Good!"

#9 They Were Playing Koi

Koi fish are high priced items and cherished in some circles. People buy them to fight. It's said that some will pay as much as $25,000 on one championship fish and pit their prized specimen against others at competitions. Well in June of 2016, two men dressed as men from a fish care company and went to a Herndon, Virginia office complex and stole an entire pond of 400 fish right under the noses of the guards. They said they were there to check on the health of the fish and exchange the unhealthy ones with new fish, but walked away with $20,000 worth of koi. Police believe the fish were sold to private collectors or sold overseas.

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