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Hundreds of truckles of cheddar worth more than £300,000 have been stolen from London cheese specialist Neal’s Yard Dairy.

Fraudsters posing as legitimate wholesalers received the 950 clothbound cheeses from the Southwark-based company before it was realised they were a fake firm.

Neal's Yard said it had still paid the producers of the cheese so the individual dairies would not have to bear the costs.

It is now trying to deal with the financial setback, a spokesperson said.

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[–] FlyingSquid 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How the hell do you steal 22 tonnes of anything in the middle of London?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

From the sounds of it; a rather special case of "show up with a saftey vest, a clipboard, and a determined look on your face, and most people just wave you through"

Warehouses often aren't all that high security. You could get away with this in most of the ones I've worked in.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess, but London is one of the most surveilled places I've ever seen. You are within the view of a CCTV camera pretty much everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Once it's mobile, leave London and transfer it either to another city, or into different vehicles and back into London. It probably took a while for the warehouse to realize what had happened, so the thieves had quite a head start against the investigators.

It's a game of hide and seek now, until they can offload it to a buyer.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would you assume there's a buyer? Maybe these people just really really like cheese

[–] PlantJam 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you ate two pounds of cheese a day every day (about 3700 calories), it would take 66 years to get through all 22 metric tons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

So you’re saying there IS a way!

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 4 weeks ago

It must have taken extensive planning. This will make an entertaining film one day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

A clipboard with a spreadsheet printout will get you a long way in a lot of places.