Okay, to get back to the really important story...here's a link with comments pages featuring more godawful puns than even we jokers could concoct:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/police-probing-quebec-maple-syrup-heist-worth-up-to-30-million/article4510740/comments/

We also find that the haul tallies up to 5000 tons of syrup.  Somebody else said the amount was as much as 3.4 million litres of the stuff.  Another writer said, "I swear this isn't from The Onion" (lol).  And some official or other informed us that it's a pretty daunting task to attempt to track stolen or lost maple syrup.