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November 9, 2011





Brothers Ryan and Gary Vaughn are caught stealing grease from a Chinese restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri. Many other St. Louis grease thieves, however, remain at large.





Dooley's Grill claims to have been victimized by grease thieves 7 times in the last year. The St. Louis Wing Company claims to have lost over $2000 worth of deep fried liquid gold due to multiple thefts, as well.





February 22, 2012





38-year-old Yonkers, New York resident Andrew Carnegie was arrested after employees at Five Guys Burgers caught him syphoning their grease into two 275-gallon containers in his van.





Pictured: A man who realized he should have been willing to make more than one trip.









March 6, 2012





New York couple Madeleine Garcia and Terry Webb were stopped by police for running a red light. When the officer noticed that Terry's forehead was coated in grease , he inspected their van. Inside he found grease stealing equipment and and two large containers filled with sweet liquid gold.





March 24, 2012





Apparently St. Louis is quite a hotbed for grease related crime.





Bryan Aston and Landon Thomas were caught stealing grease at two St. Louis area restaurants. The looks on their faces in the mug shots implies that yes, these men truly are aware how lame it sounds to be arrested for grease theft.













April 27, 2012





Pictured: Two men completely unworthy of their James Bond villainesque names/appearances.





May 19, 2011





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June 6, 2012









...and mentally unbalanced Scotsmen.

But what only seemed like a ridiculous plot device in a Simpsons episode has reared its ugly head in our reality. In 2008, a story broke in the New York Times about a spike in grease theft from restaurants (or "cooking oil rustling," as they called it) coinciding with the sharp increase in oil prices. Apparently the grease from cooking fryers, or "yellow grease" as it's called on the streets, is a valuable commodity for making biodiesal engine fuel.Bogdon Todorov Yordanov and Aldin Bajric are caught by a police officer while attempting to steal grease from a Chili's restaurant in New Port Richley, Florida.Cindy Harris (a former employee at a grease rendering company) and Jesse Moore are busted by police after an officer noticed that their tanker truck "reeked of stale french fries." The pair had embarked on a two state grease stealing crime spree in Nebraska and Illinois, amassing over 4,200 lbs.of product from various fast food establishments.Two men get away with stealing $400-$500 worth of grease from a restaurant in Quincy, Massachusetts restaurant. While that bit of information doesn't really stand out from the others by itself, it's worth noting that the the report states the thieves were using "unmarked cars."You know things have just been kicked up a few notches in the crime world when that phrase starts getting tossed around.And so the grease crime wave continues to plague our fair land, along with news reports that insist on using terrible puns about thieves "slipping up" or "striking oil."Hopefully, our nation's law enforcement officers can put a stop to this before vigilante justice starts becoming a viable option for restaurant owners.