Some of the recent heists have been sophisticated, risky, lucrative . They have grabbed our attention, sparked our sympathy , and riled our imaginations. Maybe it's because we love a decent crime story — whether the would-be thieves are thwarted , or make off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen goods.
Or maybe it's just the fact that what they're stealing is cheese. Luxury cheese, in fact. On Thursday, B.
C. RCMP revealed they'd recently foiled an attempted cheese heist at a Whole Foods in North Vancouver. They'd been on patrol Sept.
29 when they found a cart full of cheese outside the grocery store. A suspect fled on foot, leaving $12,800 worth of cheese behind. A cart full of cheese in a laneway near a Whole Foods Market is shown North Vancouver in this image provided by the police.
RCMP say officers interrupted a theft at a North Vancouver grocery story that involved thousands of dollars worth of cheese. (RCMP/The Canadian Press) This most recent attempted heist comes as the cheese world is still reeling after a U.K.
cheese heist that saw con artists make off with more than £300,000 (or more than $540,000 Cdn) in clothbound, award-winning cheddar. A 63-year-old man was recently arrested and released on bail . The cheese — 950 wheels of cheddar weighing 22 tonnes, stolen from Neal's Yard Dairy in London — has not been recovered.
But why cheese, of all things? "We suspect cheese to be the target due to its high resale value on the black market," a spokesper.