Justice
A Crime Most Slippery: Grease Thieves Plague the Restaurant Industry
Step aside, copper thieves. There's a new weirdly brazen criminal in town.
There used to be a day when if you spotted a man staggering down the street covered in grease, you could safely assume he was just a harmless sybarite into some freaky stuff.
But times they are a'changing. Nowadays, if an oil-covered stranger slithers into your vicinity, you could be in the presence of a hardened criminal. That's thanks to the rocketing price of used cooking oil, and the underground thieving network it's inspired. (What, you thought that one Simpsons episode was fiction?)