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Maybe they just really, really like blueberries.

In the Canadian city of Abbotsford, thieves made off with 20,000 blueberry bushes earlier this week. The bushes were delivered to a farmer who intended to plant them, but when his workers showed up, the bushes were gone.

Now, why the thieves would steal blueberries is a mystery, but it's certainly reasonable to assume that they were thinking of money. Since news of blueberries' health benefits have been in the media, berries are in high demand. The thieves could probably sell the bushes to another farmer. According to Marc Sweeney, the blueberry bushes will "end up on one of several new blueberry farms in the local Fraser Valley."

But the real question in my mind is how the blueberry burglars made off with 20,000 bushes. I don't know how big the bushes were, but 20,000 sure sounds like it would be quite a bit of volume.