11/5    in kchang's spirit:

                UK man acccused of stealing 1.5 million
                Mars bars

                5 November 1998
                Web posted at: 17:22 CET, Paris time (16:22 GMT)

                LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Supervisor Martin Keys seems
                to have had a particularly sweet tooth -- he is on trial for
                stealing 1.5 million chocolate Mars bars worth 500,000 pounds
                ($829,000). Newspapers on Thursday said Keys, accused of
                plotting to steal eight truck loads of the bars, made so much
                money he paid 21,000 pounds in cash for a new car and put
                down a 52,000 pound cash deposit on a house.

                "This story concerns chocolate. The theft of chocolate. A lot
                of chocolate -- a mountain of chocolate," prosecutor Simon
                Brand told the court in Gloucester, southwest England.

                "This is not a case where someone simply slipped a Mars bar
                into their pocket that didn't belong to them," he said.

                The finger of suspicion fell on Keys when a truck arrived at
                the warehouse and found most of the bars that should have
                been on the shelves had vanished. Keys, 31, denies the charges.

                ($1-.6031 Pound)

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