Crooks caught stealing 34,000 avocados in Texas

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After the election of Donald Trump to his second term, millennials on the Left immediately discovered fiscal conservatism and started worrying that raising tariffs might affect the cost of the most important thing in their lives: guacamole.

The most shocking part about that post was the news that people are paying $4 for an avocado in some parts of the country, while I usually pay less than a dollar.

Whether the panicked, avocado toast-loving lefties are right or not about Trump’s tariffs, entrepreneurial thieves in Texas seem to have picked up on the news that the arbitrage opportunities between the price of avocados in Texas and much of the rest of the country are astronomical.

The police in Laredo, TX, recently put out an all-points bulletin about an 18-wheeler that had been stolen on the border. When police near Waco, TX, (about 350 miles north) spotted it, they pulled it over and found it full of avocados — 34,000 of them!

The Hill County Sheriff’s Office says they believe the find to be the biggest recovery of stolen avocados in county history. It was also, without a doubt, the largest case of stolen avocado recovery in Deputy Ty Hardy’s career, according to the sheriff’s office.

After the discovery was made, the Laredo Police Department was informed of what was found. They requested that the driver be released, but also have the stolen avocados seized and towed to a separate location to be moved to a refrigerated trailer owned by the company that was a victim of the cargo theft.

In southern Texas, that haul is worth a mere $24,000, which isn’t a bad score. But in lefty-loonie land where the price of avocados has apparently been driven up by taxes and high-labor costs, it could potentially fetch close $136,000.