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    Chile glacier robbery: 5 tons taken for ice cubes

    SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Police in Chile say they've stopped cold a scheme to steal ice from a disappearing glacier.

    The plan was to deliver five tons of ice carved out of icebergs from the Jorge Montt glacier to upscale bars and restaurants in the capital for use as ice cubes, authorities said Friday.

    The ice was loaded onto a boat and carried to the town of Caleta Tortel, and then put on a refrigerator truck, with plans to drive it over gravel and dirt roads, ferries and highways, a trip of more than 1,400 miles (2,200 kilometers) to Santiago.

    Instead, the ice never made it out of Chile's southern Patagonia, where the unidentified driver is under arrest for robbery, regional Forestry Director Juan Eduardo Barrientos said.

    Barrientos said the company had been calling various public officials in hopes of liberating the ice. Instead, it's been put in tanks for use as irrigation on farms suffering from drought.

    The Jorge Montt Glacier, part of the protected Bernardo O'Higgins national park, was recently shown through time-lapse photos to be shrinking faster than any other in Chile, partly because it is a tidewater glacier that calves icebergs into a particularly deep fjord.

    Tourists have made boat trips to the icebergs for years, with some operators serving whiskeys with ice carved from the icebergs. But never have they taken 5 tons at a time.

     

    54 comments

    • Billy  •  3 mths ago
      This theft is just the tip of the iceberg.
    • william 1  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  3 mths ago
      just when you think that you have heard it all BAM !! you hear stories like this .
    • Stormgod  •  Jacksonville, Arkansas  •  3 mths ago
      See, in the US we would just freeze tap water and sell it CLAIMING it was pure Chilean glacial ice. In fact, now that I think about it......
    • Rat Racer  •  3 mths ago
      This is almost as bad as stealing air to breathe.
    • gadfly05  •  3 mths ago
      Police impounded the contraband, but for some reason when they later checked the evidence locker, the ice was no longer there.
      • Marcy 3 mths ago
        Best laugh I've had all day- thanks!
      • Bolt 3 mths ago
        Thought THAT was funny Marcy? Check THIS : Pete and Repeat standing
        on a bridge, Pete fell off and who was left?
    • Robert  •  3 mths ago
      In other news: Man steals seven grains of sand from the beach.
    • Bill  •  Louisville, Kentucky  •  3 mths ago
      You get drunker using glacier ice...must be...because you have to be a little off to pay more for what someone SAYS is glacier ice than what the liquor itself costs.
      • Tims 3 mths ago
        why do you rape babies?
      • Bolt 3 mths ago
        Because TIMS is behind bars and can't do it himself
    • Timothy  •  Weilheim in Oberbayern, Germany  •  3 mths ago
      Teach a man to steal ice and he'll have ice for a day. Teach a man to make ice & he'll move the manufacturing process to Chile.
    • Capt.Scotty  •  3 mths ago
      Really, buated for taking ICE? this is not really new but it sure is funny, I like the part about the guy's boss calling to get the ice returned.
    • BUDMAN  •  Durham, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      This just cold
    • Robert  •  3 mths ago
      In other news: Man steals seven grains of sand from the beach.
      • tiger 3 mths ago
        Tooo funny!!! Well said...
    • Aaron L  •  Sacramento, California  •  3 mths ago
      I bet once they get out of jail, they'll be walking on thin ice.
    • Roy  •  3 mths ago
      I'm guilty, I've tried whisky with glacier ice when I went on a cruise to Laguna San Rafael with Navimag!
    • Tom  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      I hope he was paid in cold cash.
      Sorry.
    • Jody  •  Caribou, Maine  •  3 mths ago
      My neighbor stole some snow from my yard. I think I'll sue!
    • dr howard dr fines dr how ...  •  3 mths ago
      it would have melted anyway ,and it would help their economy!
    • GOLDENEYE  •  Nixa, Missouri  •  3 mths ago
      i will take mine SHAKIN NOT STIRRED
    • hen  •  Cleveland, Georgia  •  3 mths ago
      With all the problems chile has ice is not one of them.
    • in a minute  •  3 mths ago
      there's lots of black market ice berg in Alaska.
      • Bolt 3 mths ago
        That's....Black-Ice-berg
    • Hook  •  3 mths ago
      Ice, he stole ice this has to be a joke
      • Ivan 3 mths ago
        I think it is like cutting trees on public land and selling them.
      • poop on you 3 mths ago
        If only he had the same permit given to the water companies that take the water the glacier is producing for the enviroment, via natural springs.
      • Jovian 3 mths ago
        they are talking about a long crack in the ice which will create an iceberg "350 square miles in area" now just how many millions of "5 tons at a time" do you think you can get from that???
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