Ketchup heist almost left Fenway dry

[babylonsister]

Oh noes, not the ketchup! :wow:


PD: Ketchup Heading For Sox Opener Stolen
Man Accused Of Stashing $43,000 Ketchup Shipment

POSTED: 5:07 pm EDT April 10, 2009


BOSTON -- The heavy rains that pushed back Monday’s Red Sox home opener may have actually been a blessing in disguise for fans looking forward to a Fenway Frank with all the fixings.

A $43,000 shipment of ketchup scheduled to arrive at Fenway Park Monday morning went missing after a disgruntled truck driver stashed the cargo at a Tennessee truck stop, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said.

The driver, Christopher G. Kindle, 39, of Jackson Center, Ohio, was scheduled to transport a load of 996 Heinz Ketchup bottles to a facility in Norton, Mass., by Friday. But the cargo of condiments hadn’t turned up on Monday morning and officials at Fenway began to get worried.

"On Monday I got an e-mail asking where the load was at, and that it was important," said Crosby Trucking Services manager Kevin Mitchell. "That's when I was told the ketchup was for the Red Sox home opener."

Mitchell called police to report that the load -- and the driver -- had gone missing. Police said they checked Kindle’s criminal history and learned that he was on probation for an earlier incident. Kindle’s parole officer then helped police to locate and arrest him.

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. The 'jacking a Ketchup truck shows just how bad our economy is...

:(

[babylonsister]

5. Thank gawd it wasn't a Sam Adams truck!

:beer:

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Although I'm no proponent of the death penalty...

'jacking a Sam shipment MIGHT just qualify!:rofl:

[AptosDem]

12. That's some 'fancy' ketchup at $43+ a bottle...nt

[morgan2]

13. its probably those 6 gallon jugs they have at a lot of fast food places.

[davidinalameda]

2. you can't blame this on the economy

this guy is just a freaking nut

[MrPerson]

3. A tragedy given the hot dogs on that team.

[dkf]

6. lol.

[dembotoz]

4. yankee fan???????????

[pinto]

8. Heinz heist halts homeopener.

Horror in Beantown.

(The Boston Globe of old, when I lived there, had a thing for alliterative headlines. :evilgrin: )

[Dennis Donovan]

9. We have a City editor!

:rofl::hi:

[babylonsister]

10. Love it!

Ah, the good old days! :D

[jmowreader]

11. I'm scratching my head here, guys...

What you are telling me is New England is completely bereft of food warehouses, because we're just talking about two skids of the most popular ketchup in America. (If there are 12 bottles in a case, the whole order was only 83 cases. There are probably 40 cases on a skid--five layers, eight cases per layer.) Hey Will, what kind of ate-up commonwealth do you live in where you can't buy two skids of ketchup without importing the shit from Ohio?

Memorandum to self: Never apply for a job at Crosby Trucking Services. They don't do background checks.

[Ikonoklast]

17. Probably came out of H. J. Heinz in Fremont, Ohio.

I pulled ketchup out of there myself. Lots of tomatoes in that part of the state.

Drivers do dumb shit like this stunt all the time, they get pissed at management for one reason or another and then either outright abandon the load and walk away, or try to hide it and use it as a bargaining chip.

Never saw either strategy be successful.


Looked up Crosby on SafeStat, they actually have a 'satisfactory' rating, which means they are neither real good, or really bad, performance and safety-wise.

They probably gave this guy a chance as an ex-con, and he screwed them over.

[jmowreader]

18. But didn't you pull it to distribution centers?

The only way I can imagine this being a truckload shipment is if the "bottles" were really number-10 cans, and who in HELL wants to store a thousand number-10 cans?

I cannot imagine Heinz being interested in hiring a whole truck for such a small order.

[Ikonoklast]

19. Well, the purchaser would make the freight arrangements

with the shipper if they were taking direct delivery, as Fenway was, more than likely. Depending if they required 'exclusive use' of the vehicle, it may have been part of an LTL put together by the carrier.

I've had 'truckload' freight designated as 'exclusive use' that barely took up twenty feet of fifty-three foot trailer. It was time sensitive and the shipper didn't want it to go with any other product, delivered directly to the end user (paint for the Corvette plant in KY).


It may have been going to a food service DC first and then been scheduled to deliver to Fenway as a JIT order as it would be quite a large institutional order for a single item, and getting a volume discount for the size of the order.

I've delivered product directly to stadia and other public venues, non-perishable foodstuffs, paper products, etc.

[nichomachus]

14. I can't eat salmonella without ketchup -- I would have had to settle for the Fenway e. coli

[zbdent]

15. hmm ... Heinz Ketchup ... Boston's (Massachusettes) Fenway Park ...

methinks someone is still angry at the Kerrys ...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. No ketchup on Opening Day at Fenway?

Why do you hate 'murka Mr. Kindle?