It was a difficult news week, let’s end it with a butter note. Thieves in Guelph, Ontario (but not just Guelph, Ontario) have stolen hundreds of pounds of butter from grocery stores, making off with about $1,000 worth of yellow gold in each subsequent heist. It’s been happening for months and the only people the police have been able to charge so far have disappeared.
Mark Colley is based in Toronto general assignment reporter for the Toronto Star. “It doesn’t seem particularly complex or extensive. It’s walking into a store, grabbing a whole load of butter and walking out,” Colley said.
So why butter? What do you actually do with a hundred kilos of butter at a time? Who buys it and what do they use it for? And why, with so much evidence and such blatant thefts, have the police failed to stop this?
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