Thieves Steal 55 Tons Of Corn From Moving Train In Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Police in Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state are investigating the theft of 50 metric tons (55 U.S. tons) of corn from a moving train.

A police report says the thieves greased the train tracks, making the wheels of the 54-wagon locomotive skid and slow down before they used a tow truck with a hook to remove the corn-filled containers.

The report says the theft occurred as the train traveled through a rural area about 180 miles (300 kilometers) north of the capital. The train was headed to the southeastern port of Santos with 60 metric tons (66 U.S. tons) of corn and sugar.

The case is reminiscent of Wild West robberies, where bandits on horses stole from moving trains.

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Comments

[ken95403]

08:02 PM on 12/20/2011

The man needs his corn ! Now! Maybe he was trying to make a load of bootleg booze. Now that's what I call " corn squeezin's"

[HoustonTexans]

01:39 AM on 12/13/2011

Goes in corn............................comes out corn.

[SMRacer30]

01:32 AM on 12/13/2011

Sounds like they were filming for Fast and the Furious 6

[majornutt2]

09:40 PM on 12/12/2011

The trouble with Tribbles, damn that Cyrano Jones, Scotty must have beamed them off the enterprise, via Brazil

[NotBetterThanYou]

09:23 PM on 12/12/2011

What part of this story made you place it in your "Dumb Criminals" section, HuffPo? Are you suggesting we should find people stealing food a laughing matter? Lots of comedy for you in the horn of Africa right now if that is true. Sheesh.

You should make a new section called 'Desperate Humans'.

[jimd8575]

07:47 PM on 12/12/2011

Hey misster, you wanna buy 55 tons of corn?

[ibeyour1]

10:22 PM on 12/12/2011

I smell a movie in the works

[exile]

08:07 PM on 12/13/2011

moon shine

[Getting it right]

07:28 PM on 12/12/2011

Corn and sugar? Did anyone by chance steal a large portion of yeast as well? To the policia .... look for a still ... a very, very large still!

You should smell it a mile away!

[fromthechrysalis]

06:23 PM on 12/12/2011

Imagine if you could just rewind Google Earth and see whodunnit

[wof4rd007]

05:11 PM on 12/12/2011

this reminds me of a story from the trainmen i worked with from BNSF railroad they dropped off a carload of drywall where the company wanted it at and then found out that somebody had stolen the whole load of drywall and anybody who has move a sheet or two of drywall knows that stuff is heavy so they got like a couple of semi loads so needless to say the cars are now dropped off into a fenced yard also who would think that someone would have the balls to steal a whole load of drywall, finished lumber maybe but drywall?

[ibeyour1]

10:25 PM on 12/12/2011

I bet the thieves were the ones that called in the order and told em where to drop it off.

[sal9268]

04:03 PM on 12/12/2011

Wow ,Corn squeezings will flow..

[Artos]

03:24 PM on 12/12/2011

They called that Bug Spray Bandit the "Terminexer".

[invmartyc]

01:56 PM on 12/12/2011

Corn on the cob, the new cocaine!

How corny!

[sal9268]

04:01 PM on 12/12/2011

For Moonshine only..

[sdmartintc]

01:19 PM on 12/12/2011

Police should watch for anyone who buys a large number of cookbooks for corn recipes.

[geaux saints]

12:33 PM on 12/12/2011

at least he wanted to eat natural corn and not corn in a can that sits on the shelves for 2 years

[TheBlueCoyote]

10:09 AM on 12/12/2011

I was at the grocery store here in Honolulu yesterday and four ears of corn cost $7.00. Growing up in South Dakota it cost about ten cents an ear. I have to admit though, the sweetest sweetcorn was stolen out of the field.

[onebluebrick]

10:49 PM on 12/27/2011

That corn you stole belonged to somebody else - thief!