Trailer full of broccoli disappears...is broccoli that expensive???

It could have been my three year old daughter, I will have to check under her bed! We recently went to a Perkins resturant and when she ordered off the kids meal the waitress asked what she wanted as a side. She decided on broccoli! The waitress looked at me to make sure that she knew what she was ordering and even offered her french fries instead (which upset me a little), but my 3 year old went ahead with the broccoli. The only thing she likes better is corn!

Hmmm.. Maybe they really really like it. They will probably sell it to a vendor at a flea market for next to nothing. They just want some cash. They also might have thought it was a load of something else.

It sounds like the thief was looking to steal the truck more than the broccoli or may have thought there was more valuable things in there than food. The article didn't say anything if the truck was labeled or not so maybe the thief though something else was in there. It is funny though because who would need that much broccoli? :-) I wonder how the thief feels now after finding out he has broccoli.

LOL, I can't help to think it's a little funny. Maybe they really love broccoli...And I thought I was a big broccoli fan hahaha! ;)

ooohh oohhh.... maybe that person may just be desperate to get anything inside the trailer. LOL for sure he's kinda having an itchy head now for just that value he got after all the risk!

yes i think broccoli is expensive.. it is also anti-cancer maybe they have not eaten broccoli in a long time lol i like mine steamed :)

They probably saw the trailer sitting and just decided to take it not even knowing what was inside. Some people do make money by selling items to small grocery stores, maybe they figured they could sell it for profit.

LOL... you just don't know how hard I laughed when I saw this story. I have no ideal why somebody would steal this for couldn't be for the street value ...lol.

It was probably a bunch of kids that all got together to bannish the Evil Vegetable forever! Don't blame them I can't stand the stuff but then I am a salad dodger. ;-)

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was an independent trucker. For awhile I was a produce hauler. Yep, I have no trouble believing a truck load of broccoli was stolen. I'd believe it even if it was just lettuce or carrots. All of this stuff sometimes gets stolen. Why? Every major city in the USA has produce markets where truckers bring their loads to the produce wholesalers. Sometimes, due to weather, traffic conditions, trouble getting crop workers, or whatever, certain items become temporarily scarce. Whatever that item is becomes likely to be stolen as it can be quickly sold at a premium. Even if it is broccoli.

broccoli can be expensive, depends where you dine. My wife, daughter and I were at Applebee's once and my daughter ordered a side of broccoli with her mac and cheese. I ended up giving her my broccoli that came with my meal so she hardly finished her broccoli. When I got the check her broccoli, (a small plate of about 5 pieces) was like $2.49. I was pissed. Those 5 pieces cost Applebees about 25 cents.

If I were them I would take that broccoli and find the nearest river and dump it all in there. No way anyone needs that much broccoli let alone any broccoli. Or... Perhaps they can take the truck out of state and sell broccoli on the black market. I hear that broccoli goes for a pretty penny in the underground.

50 grand worth of broccoli? That sounds lie a heck of a lot of broccoli! I've heard of truck loads of lobsters being hijacked, but never broccoli. Hey, maybe someone grabbed a truckload of lobsters and they needed a side dish. Now they need to steal a truck load of rice.

I don't think it was stolen, maybe kids got a hold of it. Have the tried looking for a HUGE pile of mash potatoes? That's where I hid my brocolie as a kid. LOL ok thanks for sharing this story, really odd in deed.

That is just totally demented. I like broccoli and so do my kids but not that much. I bet they did it just to see if they could, or it was practice for a bigger better truck. Who knows but it still demented.

ya i have also heard abt that discussion in the news paper a few days ago i think its not costly but it might b due to its nutritive value..........may be!!

I could hardly believe but perhaps they need that for the season. It's going to be new year and broccoli is needed in the preparation. They might supply that to a market which in turn sell them. Perhaps there's a low supply of broccoli there. In the Philippines, we have quite an abundant supply from Baguio City and many Filipinos have not learned using it yet besides the fact that it's expensive and only the rich could afford to buy. A dollar here now is equivalent to Php49 and so $50,000 is equivalent to about Php250,000 or 2.5 million? I'm poor in computation but that's really a big amount of money here.

Well it is $50,000 worth ... a nice haul and easily sold at markets as of course broccoli doesn't have serial numbers ... It does somewhat smack of desperation though ... maybe they just stole the wrong truck ...

hahaha! this is damn funny! are they sure the trailer was stolen? maybe it just got lost along the backroads, lol! or maybe the driver thought it would make a nice christmas gift to people starving along illinois. or maybe he will steal the truck and fuel, and restart a new business using it. damn crazy!

I think its very funny someone the taughts of someone stealing a truc of broccoli.I know its very good for you can ca be expensive.But robbing it is never the answer.