More than 6,000 tins of beans have been stolen from a parked-up lorry. 
 
 Thieves cut a large hole in the curtain-sided lorry and took nearly two pallets of the tins of Heinz baked beans with sausages. 
 
 The lorry had been parked in a lay-by on the A441, at Cookhill, near Redditch, Worcestershire, when the raiders struck. 
 
 The driver had been asleep in the cab when the tins were taken during Monday night. 
 
 "Police are appealing for information, especially about anyone trying to sell large quantities of Heinz baked beans in suspicious circumstances," a force spokesman said. ||||| Police are looking for information about anyone trying to sell large quantities of beans in suspicious circumstances 
 
 Thousands of tins of baked beans have been stolen from a lorry while the driver was asleep in his cab. 
 
 A total of 6,400 tins of Heinz baked beans with sausages were taken after thieves cut a large hole in the white Scania vehicle, West Mercia police said. 
 
 The incident happened while the truck was parked in a layby on the A441 at Cookhill, near Redditch in Worcestershire. 
 
 An entire pallet and part of a second pallet were stolen between 8.45pm on Monday and 5.30am on Tuesday. 
 
 "Police are appealing for information, especially about anyone trying to sell large quantities of Heinz baked beans in suspicious circumstances," a force spokesman said.
– While a truck driver slept in the cab of his parked vehicle, thieves were up to no good mere feet away. The BBC reports that they cut a hole in the side of the truck on Monday night and made off with some 6,400 cans of Heinz baked beans. Says a police rep in all seriousness: "Police are appealing for information, especially about anyone trying to sell large quantities of Heinz baked beans in suspicious circumstances." One additional identifying note: The variety stolen contained "sausages."