One hundred thousand organic eggs worth more than $40,000 were stolen from a distribution trailer in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, according to state police. The eggs were stolen at around 8:40 p.m. from a facility operated by Pete & Gerry’s Organics, according to a police report, the New York Times reports. “The thieves could sell them or even use them for vandalizing purposes,” Trooper Megan Frazer, a State Police spokeswoman, said in an email on Wednesday. “We don’t know what purpose of stealing 100,000 would be for at this time. With the extreme increased price of eggs, someone may have thought they could sell them.”
Eggs have been a prominent feature in the national news cycle. Their rising cost was a talking point in the presidential campaign. Suppliers are warning about the impact of avian influenza on availability and prices. And this week, Waffle House introduced a 50-cent surcharge on every egg it serves. (The chain says it serves more than 272 million eggs a year.) In Pennsylvania, the trail has gone quiet, at least publicly, since the nighttime raid. But at a time when shoppers across the country are facing empty shelves and higher prices when shopping for eggs, the theft has drawn outsize attention to what would ordinarily be seen as a local event. “This egg theft incident is definitely unusual and has gained national attention,” Trooper Frazer said. With no new information to report since the theft, local and national news organizations this week are trying to engage readers with egg puns.
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