£10K worth of cigarettes stolen during Booker raid

Police are investigating a robbery at Booker wholesale in Crowland Street, Southport.

The robbery took place on Friday 17th February 2012.

Q Local.co.uk understands that about £10,000 worth of cigarettes were stolen during the raid.

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Sadly a lot of people will happily buy them fully aware that they are stolen,such is modern day society.

Originally Posted by snazzycracker

Sadly a lot of people will happily buy them fully aware that they are stolen,such is modern day society.

What has modern day society got to do with it?
Fencing has been going on since Dickens was alive.

Dickens did some fencing for me.

Course it's falling down now.

Originally Posted by dialect

What has modern day society got to do with it?
Fencing has been going on since Dickens was alive.

You a "fence" yourself are you?

More than that; there are lot of bogus cigarettes on the market with amazingly high tar contents, a robbery like this gives the handlers a good chance to offload counterfeit Marlboros, people would more readily buy a stolen fag than one that they suspected was made in China.

With the price of fags now they probably could fit them all in a handbag

Apparently broke in through the roof !

Changing topic, does anyone wanna buy any fags?

Originally Posted by StayFresh

Changing topic, does anyone wanna buy any fags?

Any lighters to go with them ?

And they weren't Marlboro either ( L&B) A customer of Bookers told me, also mentioned 30.000 as a total, (but that may just have been for insurance purposes)

As Jim Carrey would say http://www.maximumdonline.com/moviewav/smokin.wav