When I was a kid, I had a few unsavory friends who were not above filching items from a store now and then. They all shared a common strategy in their thievery. The strategy was simple: they only nabbed items small enough to hide away on their person.
I bumped into a story from June
of this year about a thief with an exponentially larger scheme. A contract truckdriver named Alberto
Montemayor made off with 21 tons of pistachios from Touchstone
Pistachio Company, of Fresno, California.
Mr. Montemayor was caught after
detectives and company officials reviewed surveillance video from the company’s
parking lot. Police eventually located a
tractor trailer filled with the heisted nuts in an area not far from the Touchstone
Pistachio facility. Inside the trailer, police
discovered where Mr. Montemayor was working to transfer pistachios out of one-ton
bags and into smaller bags.
I am almost impressed with Alberto
Montemayor’s moxie and ambition.
Almost.
—Mitchell Hegman
Source: www.cbsnews.com, www.people.com
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