No Martinis For Australians
May 23rd, 2008 by GiGi
It looks like Australia will be suffering the next time they cozy up to a bar and order a martini.
It appears that nearly 5 tons of olives disappeared from the trees in groves surrounding Sydney.
What made the disappearance particularly strange was its thoroughness.
“It takes six people about three days to pick our groves and we don’t bother with the top of some of the higher trees, but these guys stripped the trees from top to bottom and they even took the olives off the ground.” said a local grower.
The most likely answer is a very large team of thieves who descended on the groves during the night.
But even that left lots of unanswered questions about why nobody heard them or saw lights, and how the trees were stripped so thoroughly.
“How do you pick at night? You need lights, and nobody has seen any evidence of lights,” Jan Rees of Warraroong Estate, another victim, told The Australian newspaper.
“The police were called, came and looked and scratched their heads and are on the case and taking it seriously,” von Essen said.
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