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We all know who did this.
The Canadian province of New Brunswick is on full alert for a missing truckload of Moosehead beer.

Fifty-four thousand cans of the refreshing lager simply disappeared Monday when a tractor-trailer failed to turn up at its destination in Toronto, reports the CBC.

Police found the truck, still running, along with its empty trailer in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, a few miles from the Maine border.

There was no trace of the beer, worth nearly $60,000 in U.S. currency — or of the truck's driver.

Normally, a renegade can of Moosehead (search) wouldn't attract much attention in New Brunswick, where the beer is brewed, but company spokesman Joel Levesque pointed out that these cans are different.

"Because [the load] was destined for Mexico," he explained, "the labeling on one side was English and Spanish on the reverse side."

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Gary Cameron is confident the loose lager will be recovered.

"If it is here in New Brunswick," he said, "it will be detected very rapidly because of the Spanish writing on the Moosehead cans, which is a rarity."

Of course, the beer could just have been driven into the U.S. That's why Levesque asks residents of both sides of the border to be alert.

"If someone offers you a cold Moosehead in a can that has Spanish on it," he said, "the beer is hot."
TDale
10:53:11 AM
8/20/04

GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRR.......

I have tried Moosehead but prefer that Rainer stuff I had last week.
Drunk Black Bear
12:30:46 PM
8/20/04

La cervassa es calor!
Geobeet
12:36:31 PM
8/20/04

hmmmm, 60,000 would go a long ways in northern Maine.
Roam Around
12:38:25 PM
8/20/04

Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder what Gremlin's up to. He got back home, and then he disappeared again.
Geobeet
12:41:58 PM
8/20/04

Say, weren't Pennsy and Lumberzac hanging around that area for their extended version of the Hike Maine trip? ...
PhantomSoul
12:33:53 AM
8/21/04

No More Nightly Trips To The Beer Distributors
Free beer forever?

Somebody had the right idea.
Buddur
7:58:29 AM
8/21/04

A bear has become an unwanted guest in one Croatian town after learning how to knock on the door to trick people into letting it in.

The 35-stone monster knocked at the door of the Loknar family from Gerovo in western Croatia three times and they are now refusing to answer the door, ananova reports.

"I opened the door and saw him standing there and I didn't believe my eyes at first, then I ran for it as he walked in as if it was the most normal thing in the world," mother Nevenka Loknar said.

"Bears are a common thing in the woods around here, but no one has ever heard of a bear that knocks at the door.

"The bear is so intelligent it's incredible."


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VioLiN
12:40:22 PM
7/08/05

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