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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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[–] mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Capnjak@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr 1 points 36 minutes ago

Kojima dropping memes again

[–] mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr 0 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SilverCode@lemm.ee 9 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 46 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

America is bloody Gotham City now.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 7 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

$100k in eggs?

So, like 4 or 5 dozen?

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Wow. Tons of eggs.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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