{"id":239,"date":"2007-04-14T23:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T23:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","slug":"just-another-day-at-the-canadaus-border-or-bratwurst-bandits-be-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Just another day at the Canada\/US border, or bratwurst bandits be warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/edmonton\/story\/2007\/04\/13\/sausage-thieves.html?ref=rss\">this story<\/a> on the CBC news:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is getting a pat on the back from Alberta RCMP for helping to nab a pair of Canadians suspected in a pepperoni theft.<\/p>\n<p>Redcliff RCMP officers answered a break-in call at Premium Sausage, a shop in the village of Seven Persons in southern Alberta near Medicine Hat Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The culprits had allegedly smashed down the door and stolen a &#8220;large quantity&#8221; of beef jerky, sausage and pepperoni.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they found a stolen truck with the meat inside at a campground in Cypress Hills Provincial Park, near the U.S. border. But the suspects had fled on foot<\/p>\n<p>At about 3 p.m., they arrested two teenagers in a wooded area about 50 kilometres from the U.S. border with the help of an American aircraft with an infrared camera.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa granted permission to let the plane join the hunt, said Const. Bruce McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP said they also got help from the Medicine Hat police, Cypress County, conservation officers, and concerned citizens to collar the sausage suspects.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/span>Sausage suspects? What about Bratwurst bandits? Pepperoni pilferers? Ham hijackers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this story on the CBC news: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is getting a pat on the back from Alberta RCMP for helping to nab a pair of Canadians suspected in a pepperoni theft. Redcliff RCMP officers answered a break-in call at Premium Sausage, a shop in the village of Seven Persons in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-humour","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}