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posted by chromas on Friday February 15 2019, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the almost-enough-water-for-8-ice-skating-rinks dept.

In Newfoundland, icebergs are harvested and the water used for things such as cosmetics, bottled water, beer, and Vodka.

The company Iceberg Vodka heads out in a boat in the late spring intent on bringing in the icebergs needed to make water for their Vodka in the coming year.

All business as usual, and the water is stored and used as needed. However this past weekend thieves made off with a tractor trailer tanker's worth of the company's iceberg water.

The crime itself would have been a complicated endeavour and it suggests the thief was familiar with the facility.

Those responsible would need access to the building and know just the right gear to pull off the heist.

Thieves drained and made off with the water from one of ten tanks the company keeps in its Port Union, N.L. warehouse.

The remarkable theft of about 30,000 litres of iceberg water...has bewildered the firm’s owners.

Iceberg Vodka's CEO David Meyers noted that:

“I’ve never even considered the possibility of somebody stealing our water … I guess we live in an interesting world.”

For perspective, that much water heading down the freeway carries the same momentum as 7.62 fully filled Zamboni model 545's (not counting the vehicle to haul it)


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by rigrig on Friday February 15 2019, @02:05PM (7 children)

    by rigrig (5129) Subscriber Badge <soylentnews@tubul.net> on Friday February 15 2019, @02:05PM (#801531) Homepage

    Thank you submitter, for providing the conversion to "fully filled Zamboni model 545's", I was quite baffled to notice this glaring omission in TFA.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by NateMich on Friday February 15 2019, @03:03PM (3 children)

      by NateMich (6662) on Friday February 15 2019, @03:03PM (#801547)

      Thank you submitter, for providing the conversion to "fully filled Zamboni model 545's", I was quite baffled to notice this glaring omission in TFA.

      This is all useless to me if it isn't measured in Olympic-sized swimming pools.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by fritsd on Friday February 15 2019, @04:36PM (1 child)

        by fritsd (4586) on Friday February 15 2019, @04:36PM (#801635) Journal

        0.012 o.s.p. [theregister.co.uk] (57295 grapefruits).

        • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday February 15 2019, @10:57PM

          by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @10:57PM (#801804) Journal

          I will use this - Kormac

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      • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:24AM

        by driverless (4770) on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:24AM (#802309)

        I was going to ask to have it in a more relevant unit like 1905 Altman steam cars.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:09PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:09PM (#801551)

      My mind read it as 7.62 Zamboni model 545. I assumed it was some sort of African SKS.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by zocalo on Friday February 15 2019, @03:29PM

        by zocalo (302) on Friday February 15 2019, @03:29PM (#801562)
        LOL. So I wasn't the only one to mentally insert "mm full metal jacket" into that before the context kicked in?
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      • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:22AM

        by driverless (4770) on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:22AM (#802375)

        You're thinking of the 7.62 Zastava, a sort of Serbian AKM, not the 7.62 Zamboni. The 7.62 Zamboni was intended to be a light MG, but due to a mistranslation from the Italian ended up being built as a spaghetti extruder instead.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 15 2019, @02:43PM (8 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @02:43PM (#801540) Journal

    30,000 liters of water = 7925 gallons. 66,139 pounds. The typical tractor trailer rig weighs close to 30,000 pounds. So, gross, something like 99,000 pounds. Legal gross weight in the US is 80,000, unless you pay some big money for a permit. That theft would have been busted at the first weigh scale in the US. Of course, the typical tanker on US highways only holds 5,000 gallons. Seems like Newfies have bigger rigs than we have in the states - or they used two trucks, instead of one. Which would make sense, if they had to cross a weigh station scale. Two trucks would be about legal weight, or a little under. But, where do you go from there? Take a ferry to Halifax?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:04PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:04PM (#801548)

      It wasn't a heist, it was a liberation. Greenpeace just wanted to put the water back where it came from.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 15 2019, @04:14PM (2 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @04:14PM (#801613) Journal

        Ya know - your answer could just be the right answer. The water wasn't stolen, someone just opened a valve, and let it escape. Just like Free Willy.

        • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday February 15 2019, @06:10PM (1 child)

          by Freeman (732) on Friday February 15 2019, @06:10PM (#801691) Journal

          That's one big Willy.

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          • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday February 15 2019, @08:47PM

            by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @08:47PM (#801770) Journal

            /s/big/wet/

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by dwilson on Friday February 15 2019, @05:53PM (2 children)

      by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @05:53PM (#801681) Journal

      In Canada, weight allowances vary from province to province, but are (usually) proportional to the number of tires under the load. More axles = more tires = heavier loads allowed without special permitting.

      From the volumes you've provided (5,000 US gallons), I'm guessing your "typical tractor-trailer rig" is a tandem axle tractor with tandem-axle trailer.

      A tri-drive tractor unit pulling a set of super-B's [tremcar.com] would easily move 30 cubes of water. In weight it would be well under the limit, and in volume 30 cubes is just less than half of what the trailers can hold.

      Lastly, since I am an actual Canadian and not one of the fictional american's-impression-of-a-Canadian, I'll forgo the zamboni conversion and note that 30 cubes of water is 30 metric tonnes, those being the two units we actually use when moving fluid by truck or pipe. (We use 'cube' as shorthand for 'cubic metre', which is 1,000 litres but less cumbersome in conversation. One metric tonne is of course 1,000 kilograms. Volume and mass, respectively.)

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 15 2019, @06:39PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @06:39PM (#801707) Journal

        I've used up all my mod points today, sorry. I should have thought of dual trailers. Never pulled them, but I've seen enough of them.

      • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday February 15 2019, @08:50PM

        by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @08:50PM (#801771) Journal

        not one of the fictional american's-

        Hopefully I get renewed for another season.

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    • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:22AM

      by dry (223) on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:22AM (#801948) Journal

      30,000 litres is close to 6608 gallons, at 10 lbs a gallon, 66080 ibs, or 30,000Kgs or 30 tonnes.. Canadian article, so Canadian units, which is why the Zamboni reference instead of some foreign unit like Libraries of Congress.
      Tried to look up the regulations but in true Newfie fashion, only available by payment. For inter-provincial, a B-train can mass up to 62,500 Kg gross, regular semi-trailer up to 46,500, that will allow the truck and trailer itself to mass 32,000 Kgs if a B-train and regular semi, 16,500 kgs or 36,300 lbs. So one big truck or a B-train, probably a C-train as well.
      https://www.todaystrucking.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/files/legacy_images/MOUSizeamdWeight_2005.pdf [todaystrucking.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:21PM (#801560)

    I guess that's one way to make the books balance.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 15 2019, @03:33PM (4 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday February 15 2019, @03:33PM (#801566) Journal

    Why would they steal water? Newfoundland does not lack for water. It's not the Sahara. Also, the thieves will probably spend more on gas carting the stuff around then they would ever get from selling it. It makes about as much sense as stealing air that some company has bottled.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:01PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:01PM (#801603)

      As much sense as harvesting the iceberg in the first place.

    • (Score: 2) by Snow on Friday February 15 2019, @04:15PM

      by Snow (1601) on Friday February 15 2019, @04:15PM (#801615) Journal

      How do you sell 30,000L of stolen iceburg water?

      Kajiji?

    • (Score: 3, Redundant) by J053 on Friday February 15 2019, @11:28PM

      by J053 (3532) <dakineNO@SPAMshangri-la.cx> on Friday February 15 2019, @11:28PM (#801828) Homepage
      Being Newfies, they probably saw the big "Iceberg Vodka" logo on the tanks and thought they were stealing the finished product.
    • (Score: 2) by jb on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:28AM

      by jb (338) on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:28AM (#801949)

      Why would they steal water?

      Perhaps they were thirsty?

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by inertnet on Friday February 15 2019, @03:50PM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Friday February 15 2019, @03:50PM (#801584) Journal

    Have they checked for leaks? Would be a much more plausible explanation. Or maybe the thieves thought they were stealing vodka.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 15 2019, @04:16PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @04:16PM (#801616) Journal

      That makes sense too. 7000 gallons of vodka would last most of us several lifetimes. Now, if we were talking about Scotch whiskey, I could generate some genuine interest!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:00AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:00AM (#801955)

        seven thousand gallons of vodka would barely support a tiny russian hamlet for a year. Is there a russian community in Newfoundland? I'd check for very angry sober people.

  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday February 15 2019, @05:55PM (1 child)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday February 15 2019, @05:55PM (#801683)

    Why not falsely claim water is from a glacier instead of stealing actual glacier water?

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Osamabobama on Friday February 15 2019, @06:30PM

      by Osamabobama (5842) on Friday February 15 2019, @06:30PM (#801703)

      *iceberg. Glaciers are politically charged, but icebergs are fair game.

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:23PM (#801763)

    thought it was vodka not water.

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