At 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 28, a semi truck pulled into an Ontario parking lot, hooked up to a trailer, and drove away. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was a regular truck driver getting started early on a long haul. It was actually a whipped cream theft. You may have heard of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Well, it looks like the country is two-thirds of the way to a dessert theft hat trick.

A not-so-sweet surprise

At 11 a.m. the next day, a Gay Lea business manager called the Guelph, Ontario, police to report someone had made a sweet getaway with a refrigerated trailer. The semi-truck trailer had been loaded with 30 pallets of whipped cream, worth $80,000 in total.

The only description available is that the sweets were in a white Wabash-brand trailer. The police haven’t released a description of the suspect or even the truck used to make the smooth getaway.

Inside job or cold coincidence?

It’s unclear why no one called the authorities until 11 in the morning. Perhaps the morning shift assumed the correct truck had picked up the trailer for shipping.

The trailer was stolen from 21 Speedvale Avenue West, which is the Gay Lea facility. So it seems the trailer was loaded up and ready to be shipped out—and this was a very targeted theft of the dairy product. That said, police have theorized the thieves could have just wanted the trailer.

Guelph police spokesperson Scott Tracey said, “We won’t know for sure what the motive was. Even if this person knew what was inside the trailer … the trailer in this case is valued at approximately $50,000 on its own.”

The police are asking anyone with information to call Const. Jonathan Schleen at 519-824-1212.