Up in Ontario

Truck of Beer Gone Missing

CBC reports that a truck full of Moosehead beer has gone missing on its way to Mexico. Moosehead goes to Mexico? And, holy crap that's a lot of skunky beer!

FREDERICTON - Police have found the truck driver who went missing last week along with more than 50,000 cans of Moosehead beer on the way to Mexico. Acting on a tip, two RCMP investigators from New Brunswick went to Ontario and located 30-year-old Wade Haines in Lindsay, about 130 kilometres northeast of Toronto. He's currently being interviewed.

Haines disappeared at the same time the beer was stolen somewhere between Fredericton and Grand Falls, N.B. The tractor-trailer he was driving was found last week near Woodstock, N.B.

On Monday night, police discovered nearly 8,000 cans of the stolen suds in a trailer that went off the road near Woodstock.

At the crash site, they found a half-ton truck with a trailer and the beer, which is labelled in Spanish and English. There was no sign of the driver.

Police are still looking for the rest of the shipment, worth $75,000, and the driver of the half-ton truck.

Purely coincidentally, I spent this past weekend with 7 friends on a fishing trip on Lake of the Woods, in northern Ontario. And I can't even read Spanish.