It wasn't actually that exact amount. It was "about 12 tons", and somebody did the 12000 kg / 29g calculation and used the answer with way too many significant digits. Probably the reporter trying to make the 12 ton number relatable.
(You might object that KitKats usually weigh 40g. So these were probably the new KitKat Icon F1 chocolates, which weigh exactly 29g.)
My brain went here too. I'm guessing that one box missed the truck (either it was damaged during loading or had a manufacturing defect), so a full shipment is 3 x 3 x 23 x 2000. So my SWAG:
Can't help but think of George Clooney orchestrating the heist from his villa in Lago di Como (with a perfect alibi somehow). Maybe Brad Pitt was hungry.
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Were electric minis used in this heist? Was the Turin traffic system hacked?
Were only the doors blown off (come on baby light my fire)?
413,793 is 3×3×23×1999.
(You might object that KitKats usually weigh 40g. So these were probably the new KitKat Icon F1 chocolates, which weigh exactly 29g.)
1 box = 3 x 3 x 23 bars
1 pallet = 10 x 10 boxes
1 truck = 20 pallets
The craze for Japanese KitKats being an exception.
Having bought a triple pack of 7 double finger KitKats in the nineties and eating them all in 20 minutes I can’t even look at a pack anymore.
(So as to avoid being like the Robin Hood Airport guy, I'd like to say the above was a joke)