It's no secret that Canadians love their hockey, but a recent crime in Manitoba stretches the bounds of that passion.
Police are looking for two men who stole cases of beer from a closed store in the town of Russell. The description for one man probably won't help — he was wearing a hockey goalie's uniform. The Ottawa Citizen reports the crook had a No. 17 jersey, trapper mitt, a blocker pad, and he carried a goalie stick, even as he fled the store with his stolen beer.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police posted a video of the Aug. 15 caper, with the tagline, “#17 in your program but #1 on the Russell Manitoba RCMP wanted list.”
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Realizing the absurdity of the crime, police are seeking anyone who has information about the theft, or who “has played against a goalie matching this description.”