UK Man Convicted of Stealing 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs Worth $37,000
Cadbury is the best chocolate!
These aren’t the Cadbury Creme Eggs forced upon us in America. These are the REAL deal Cadbury Creme Eggs made with the world’s greatest chocolate.
Joby Pool, 32, was convicted of stealing 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs from a unit in Stafford Park in Telford, located in western England:
Opening the facts of the case on Tuesday, prosecutor Owen Beale told Kidderminster magistrates court: “I don’t know if you have seen the news recently – there was a load that was stolen and on the trailer was Cadbury’s products, a large number of Creme Eggs.”
He said Pool, a self-employed ground worker, used a tractor unit that had been stolen in the Yorkshire area in October to tow away the trailer full of chocolate, which was then driven away, eventually reaching the northbound M42.
Pool was spotted by police and “gave up at junction 11 and walked towards the police with his hands up. He was arrested and the load was recovered”.
“This clearly wasn’t spur-of-the-moment offending, if I can put it like that, because he had taken with him a tractor unit and he had to know that the load was there in the first place,” said Beale.
Magistrates were told Pool, from West Yorkshire, was previously convicted of theft, handling stolen goods and driving while disqualified in 2019.
Beale said: “This is clearly an organised criminal matter. You don’t just happen to learn about a trailer with that kind of value being available.”
Pool faces two years and two months in jail.
Cadbury is the best chocolate in the world. We don’t get the real stuff in America thanks to Hershey’s. It’s true. Hershey’s got Cadbury banned from America. You have to buy it directly from the UK.
I fill half a suitcase with Cadbury treats whenever I return from London.
UPDATE | West Mercia Police has helped save Easter for Crème Egg fans after almost 200,000 of the chocolate treats were stolen from a unit in Stafford Park in Telford.
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— West Mercia Police (@WMerciaPolice) February 13, 2023
Shortly after the theft a vehicle, presumably purporting to be the Easter bunny, was stopped northbound on the M42 and a 32 year old man was arrested on suspicion of theft.
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— West Mercia Police (@WMerciaPolice) February 13, 2023
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Democrat.
It’s Britain. Labour.
What about the bunny? Isn’t that the same one the White House uses to keep Biden from talking to reporters?
I know, but same thing.
I have an alibi!
Eggsactly!
So do I. I used to love those Cadbury eggs, but then I grew up. They are just a step over Peeps.
SHUSH! These are the best!
I like to pop open the Peeps cellophane and let them sit a few days. This way, they become chewy! NOTHING like stale Peeps!
Most chocolate sold here is rubbish, regardless the brand.
Especially after people get through swimming in it.
LOL
I agree American massproduced chocolate sucks. There is plenty of American chocolate that way better than Cadbury (and yes I have had British version). The milk chocolate confectioniers stuff is way too sweet.
BLASPHEMY!
Mom got me on a dark chocolate track, and when she made chocolate chip cookies, it was with semi-sweet, not “toll house” kind.
One of my favorite things in the world at Christmas is a Terry’s dark chocolate orange. SO completely delicious that I actually start looking forward to one in the fall!
I look forward to when one FALLS! Right into my shopping cart!
Hee! As long as it falls just right and all those yummy slices fall apart. 😉
Those are awesome. 🍫 +🍊 = 🤗
“For chocolate to be labeled as chocolate in the United States, it must have a minimum cocoa mass of 10%, but this is not the standard in other countries.
In Canada, the minimum cocoa mass is 25% for milk chocolate. In Europe, the minimum cocoa mass for milk chocolate is 35%.”
The US is like the Ali-Baba of chocolate.
Good chocolate is over 50% and I like it bitter and dark 85%. I eat the nibs for snacks.
So true!
Does he have diabetes yet?
And Hershey’s is the best chocolate, hands down.
BLASPHEMY!
I still remember “Nestles is the very best…chocolate”
Jimmy Nelson & Farfel the Dog!
John Fetterman is sending you a belated Valentine card.
Cadbury is great but not the best. Just bought my wife some Norman Love for Valentines. There is great chocolate all over the world.
BLASPHEMY!
18.5 cents each? I think someone misplaced a decimal.
In America, social justice dictates bag limits. Does the UK offer basket limits?
“Joby Pool, 32, was convicted of stealing 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs”
Maya Rudolph, move over—I think M&M has found your replacement.
Have you considered, I don’t know, just going to a proper chocolatier?
When my age was measured in single digits, my mother was raving about Lindt chocolate. I saw a box sitting on the coffee table. Big huge letters: CHOCOLATE LINDT.
My young mind pictured what came out of the tray on the back of our clothes dryer, coated with chocolate. FEH!
When I was very small I ate an entire box of chocolates that was sitting on the table. My father then went and got some chocolate Ex Lax and gave it to me. I learned my lesson on eating chocolate without permission.
The favorite brand of chocolate in the Bear community: GRR-idelli of course!
I love their cocoa powder, especially. It makes the BEST hot chocolate in all the world (not that I’ve tried all the hot chocolates in the world, heh). I love it and can’t use anything else to make hot chocolate, having found the right balance of sugar and milk to make it taste absolutely divine. Plop on a few marshmallows (full size, none of those mini-wannabes), and YUM!. It’s GRRReat! 😛
Those individually wrapped little squares of chocolate they offer are also amazing.
PS: did my email on voting shock you into silence?
OMG, no! Let me look (it may have been shunted to spam, I hate Google).
I found it! And just now responded 🙂 You know I would never ignore my favorite Bear. 🙂