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07-18-2007, 10:10 AM
Baseball thief swipes big load of beer
Posted by The Times-Picayune July 17, 2007 4:57PM
By Michelle Hunter
East Jefferson bureau
It must have been one heck of a party.
Someone broke into the New Orleans Zephyrs baseball stadium in Metairie last week and stole a Coors Light beer truck containing 51 kegs of brew, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office incident report.
A groundskeeper for the team discovered break-in Thursday morning when he arrived at the stadium at 6000 Airline Drive. The thieves made off with the truck, $3,061 worth of beer and more than $10,000 in groundskeeping equipment, the Sheriff's Office report said.
The burglars didn't crack the team's offices, but Zephyrs General Manager Mike Schline called the theft of the beer truck baffling.
"I think everybody thought, 'What kind of idiots did this?' " he said Tuesday. "You would think somebody who was going to break into a place like this would try to be subtle. ... We couldn't believe somebody was leaving the stadium driving a beer truck. I don't know where they thought they were going to go with it."
Not far, as it turned out.
Sheriff's deputies recovered most of the stolen property that afternoon and the next evening within two miles of the stadium, according to Sheriff's Office reports. The beer truck was intact, parked near an abandoned house with the keys in the ignition.
However, only 38 kegs were on board, Schline said.
The Sheriff's Office has not named any suspects in the case. Though the thieves managed to get away with makings for a rather rowdy get-togther, Schline wasn't impressed.
"I don't think we're dealing with the most intelligent criminals in the world," he said.
They were intelligent enough to still have 13 kegs of your beer!
Posted by The Times-Picayune July 17, 2007 4:57PM
By Michelle Hunter
East Jefferson bureau
It must have been one heck of a party.
Someone broke into the New Orleans Zephyrs baseball stadium in Metairie last week and stole a Coors Light beer truck containing 51 kegs of brew, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office incident report.
A groundskeeper for the team discovered break-in Thursday morning when he arrived at the stadium at 6000 Airline Drive. The thieves made off with the truck, $3,061 worth of beer and more than $10,000 in groundskeeping equipment, the Sheriff's Office report said.
The burglars didn't crack the team's offices, but Zephyrs General Manager Mike Schline called the theft of the beer truck baffling.
"I think everybody thought, 'What kind of idiots did this?' " he said Tuesday. "You would think somebody who was going to break into a place like this would try to be subtle. ... We couldn't believe somebody was leaving the stadium driving a beer truck. I don't know where they thought they were going to go with it."
Not far, as it turned out.
Sheriff's deputies recovered most of the stolen property that afternoon and the next evening within two miles of the stadium, according to Sheriff's Office reports. The beer truck was intact, parked near an abandoned house with the keys in the ignition.
However, only 38 kegs were on board, Schline said.
The Sheriff's Office has not named any suspects in the case. Though the thieves managed to get away with makings for a rather rowdy get-togther, Schline wasn't impressed.
"I don't think we're dealing with the most intelligent criminals in the world," he said.
They were intelligent enough to still have 13 kegs of your beer!