The chocolate heist

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NICK EICHER, HOST: Gimme a break.

And not just a piece of that Kit Kat bar.

Thieves in Europe broke off an entire shipment— more than 400-thousand candy bars — about 12 tons of chocolate when it’s all tallied.

A truck was carrying the Kit Kats from a factory in Italy on its way to Poland.

The truck itself? Still missing. As are the chocolate bars.

Now the company behind Kit Kat is asking for help—launching an online tracker … so customers can check the batch code on their bars … and see if their chocolate is hot, so to speak.

No suspects so far.

But here’s hoping the candy culprits soon find themselves behind less tasty bars.

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