Posted on 08/27/2018 10:42:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sheriff's deputies in California conducted a traffic stop and discovered 800 pounds of stolen lemons in a man's car. Photo courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office
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Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A California sheriff's office said deputies conducting a traffic stop arrested a man found to be transporting 800 pounds of stolen lemons.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office said Thermal Station Deputies assigned to the Southern Coachella Valley Community Services District Team were investigating a string of recent agricultural thefts when they conducted the traffic stop Friday.
The sheriff's office said Los Angeles resident Dioncio Fierros, 69, was found to be transporting about 800 pounds of freshly picked lemons that had been illegally taken from a nearby farm.
Fierros was booked into the Indio Jail on a charge of theft of agricultural products.
When life gives you lemons . . . .
Was he going to steal a tractor trailer full of Corona next?
John Lewis ?
Guess he was going to have a bunch of Margaritas.
That’s one big lemonade stand for his children...
College fund ???
Then he should have stole LIMEs....................
that sucks.
Did he make a sour face when he got busted?
When you’re caught stealing 800 pounds if lemons.....make lemonade?
For him the story ended on a sour note.
This story is leaving a sour taste in my mouth.
I wouldn’t touch that Mexican piss water.....................
LOL!.....................
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I’ll bet the cops are going to squeeze him for information.
No, no, no... coronas’ use limes. Lemons are for wheat bier.
They look like limes to me.
The amount of effort involved, compared to the payoff, is so enormous that it is barely more than vandalism. LOL.
For true lemon lovers---Martha's crisp cookies are perfect. Lemon in the cookie, lemon in the glaze.
GLAZED LEMON COOKIES / makes 24
ING 2 c flour, 1/2 ts ea b/soda, salt, tb lemon zest, 2 tb l/juice, 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp, cup sugar, lge egg, tsp vanilla
BATTER whisk flour, b/soda, salt, lemon zest. Separately, elec/mixer butter and sugar light and fluffy. Add egg, vanilla, lemon juice and beat/combine. W/ mixer on low, beat in flour mixture.
FINAL Drop heaping tbl dough, inch apart, on two baking sheets. Bake 350 deg til edges are golden, 15 to 20 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cool 2 min on sheetpans, then wire rack to cool completely. Glaze and let set an hour.
LEMON GLAZE lemon zest, conf, lemon juice.
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