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A thief or thieves managed to steal approximately 100,000 eggs from a truck parked in Pennsylvania, according to a state police report.

The report filed by the Chambersburg Patrol Unit (pdf) says the eggs were stolen out of a distribution trailer shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday.

The theft occurred at Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs in Greencastle, Penn., the report says.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

America is bloody Gotham City now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Except instead of a smuggling guns or drugs we are stealing eggs and produce.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I took it to mean gotham has wierdo crimes by the penguin doing things like this rather than standard crimes.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How does one fence 100k eggs? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Phone the Guinness Book of Records and ask if anyone has recently shown interest in making the world's biggest omelette

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

$100k in eggs?

So, like 4 or 5 dozen?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

They stole 100,000 individual eggs, so about 8333 dozen eggs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Someone, somewhere, is about to make the mother of all omeletes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Wow. Tons of eggs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Puts the "You don't make omelette without breaking eggs" French expression in a whole new perspective

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack! Can't fret over every egg!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Kojima dropping memes again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Legend says the robber said that while putting sunglasses before running away backwheeling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

But MAH EGGS!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What are they planning on doing with that many eggs? I wonder if it’s a customer or maybe a competitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Air powered egg cannon - aim at building - ??? - reform