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I'd eat here every day. (Original Post) rug Sep 2014 OP
I vote for "funny" too! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2014 #1
They have their priorities down pat. rug Sep 2014 #3
I could picture it and it struck me funny, too... Rhiannon12866 Sep 2014 #4
That happened to me too! edgineered Sep 2014 #2
All summer Mr. Softee would come down the block every day. rug Sep 2014 #5
Just the individual wrapped ice cream edgineered Sep 2014 #7
There might be more going on here than meets the eye Eagle_Eye Sep 2014 #6
Tru, dat. malthaussen Sep 2014 #8
At least cite the accurate article J.zagrebina Aug 2015 #9

edgineered

(2,101 posts)
2. That happened to me too!
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 07:17 PM
Sep 2014

The last time I parked the truck out front they all disappeared and came back with cones. What really got me though was sitting there thinking that they could have at least let me order first.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
5. All summer Mr. Softee would come down the block every day.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 07:22 PM
Sep 2014

Since I moved I haven't seen one in years.




edgineered

(2,101 posts)
7. Just the individual wrapped ice cream
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 07:36 PM
Sep 2014

and items are sold by those around here. Had a mean spirited neighbor who would call the sheriff office about the music because he didn't want his son asking for ice cream. At the time we lived in an area of rental duplexes and triplexes. My kids wanted ice cream. One summer two other trucks started showing up. It can be a tough business I guess.

I still question whether the patron drove an ice cream truck, explaining their actions?

Eagle_Eye

(1,439 posts)
6. There might be more going on here than meets the eye
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 07:33 PM
Sep 2014
There is a Long and Storied Tradition of Selling Drugs Out of Ice Cream Trucks in New York

Twenty-year-old Alexey Zagrebin's mother bought him an ice cream truck hoping that he would get a job. He and his partner James LaPointe, 19, ended up doing brisk business slinging weed and hash from it. So brisk that anyone who just wanted a cone was out of luck: One neighbor said one of the men was rude to people who weren't there to pick up marijuana. When police nabbed Zagrebin and LaPointe near Seth Low Park, they found six $10 bags of marijuana and 12 bags of hash.

malthaussen

(17,193 posts)
8. Tru, dat.
Sun Sep 14, 2014, 10:43 AM
Sep 2014

It's been 40 years since I drove an ice cream truck, but a lot of my compatriots were making a nice bit of coin selling cigarettes and other weeds at the schools on their routes.

-- Mal

J.zagrebina

(1 post)
9. At least cite the accurate article
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 11:37 PM
Aug 2015

Try the story from The Gazette. It was 6 bags of hash... The charge was trumped up to felony. When the first judge said it was a probationary case since he had never been in trouble before, the DA asked for another judge. How do I know this? He's my husband. I really wish people would stop citing the article seeing as how he has a hard enough time getting a job with the felony on his record, even 16 years later, without stuff like this popping up on Google.

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