Remember, thieves were alleged to have siphoned off about 2.7 million kilograms of Canada’s sweetest export from a storage facility in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, a small town 160 kilometres north of Montreal.
At the time, the crime sounded a bit fishy to me. I mean really, how could thieves have pulled off a theft of such magnitude and to what end?
Did the perpetrators intend to open up a nation-wide pancake chain? Were they working on a maple flavoured coffee for Tim Horton’s? Or could it be that they conspiring to build a maple syrup pipeline to the States?
In any case, someone in Hollywood thought this story was worth retelling as Sony Pictures recently announced plans for a comedy flick based on this sticky caper. In fact, they’ve already lined up Jason Segel, best known for his work on How I Met Your Mother, to star in the movie.
I think they should also enlist Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, the Wet Bandits from Home Alone, to play the part of the comic syrup swipers.
And if they need someone to do quality control on the actual maple syrup, I’m their man.
Now, I wonder if I can suggest another of my blog themes as a possible movie idea. It would be a dark film with lots of underground tunnels and battle scenes with grubby warriors.
Just maybe, Pixar should consider doing an animated movie called....
THE SECRET WORLD OF NEMATODES!
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