Ah, ice cream truck turf wars. It's a cold underground world, a place where blood and melted fudge-pops mix amidst a chorus of godawful jingle-jingle music.

I saw this on WorldStar HipHop and needless to say it was not as good as "knocks out two in Detroit' or 'Girl whoops her sister's BF's ass'.

A friend of mine had a summer gig as an ice cream man and this stuff is pretty common. There was a particular incident where ice cream trucks engaged in a high speed chase around a trailer park which ended with an ice cream truck run off of the road. They also fight back at the garage over claims of exclusive rights to certain routes.

Ice Cream Man: Serious Business.

If you're tired and you're hungry and you want something cool,
I got something better than a swimming pool...

Couple ice cream trucks cruise around my neighborhood. Told my kids no $$ because the pops they sell for $3.25 each you can get at the store 10-20 in a pack for a that price. Not kidding, because I checked.

Also happens that we live in a "gated" community, in that you can't be here without permission (not even drive through) and they didn't get permission. Cops pull them over all the time. One caught a child molester (heard from a neighbor) on one of the trucks.

/overpriced frozen garbage trucks

It's a jungle out there

/sits back, waits for the best of Axl & ice cream pics.

Boy what the fark you want?

We have one that drives though the neighborhood playing tinny Christmas music. Believe me, it takes a second to realize that you're listening to "Silent Night" in the middle of June.

I read more information about this today, oh boy.

Both of these guys had way too much product - one had 1500 servings. The other had 2500! That's right.

Four thousand cones in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Eirik: We have one that drives though the neighborhood playing tinny Christmas music. Believe me, it takes a second to realize that you're listening to "Silent Night" in the middle of June.

Got you to notice,

I don't find this strange at all. In most municipalities you have to pay for a vendors license and sales permit. They're usually given out for territories to reduce overlap. Some fee prices are directly related to potentiel sales.
So to have someone selling on your turf that didn't pay for the right to be there can result in some chilling scenes.

OccamsWhiskers: I read more information about this today, oh boy.

Both of these guys had way too much product - one had 1500 servings. The other had 2500! That's right.

Four thousand cones in Blackburn, Lancashire.

I logged in just to vote this "funny"

WelldeadLink: Eirik: We have one that drives though the neighborhood playing tinny Christmas music. Believe me, it takes a second to realize that you're listening to "Silent Night" in the middle of June.

Got you to notice,

True, but now it's a sign that we don't go to that truck. The driver is Syrian, and my wife is Lebanese. There is not a lot of love between the two peoples.

Eirik: We have one that drives though the neighborhood playing tinny Christmas music. Believe me, it takes a second to realize that you're listening to "Silent Night" in the middle of June.

The one in my neighborhood plays some tune whose real name escapes me--I can only remember the childhood parody lyrics:

Oh, I had a little chickie
But she wouldn't lay an egg,
So I poured hot water
Up and down her leg.
Well, my little chickie cried,
And my little chickie begged,
And that little chickie
Laid a hard-boiled egg.

And then, after the tune ends but before it starts up again, there's a single spoken word: "HELLO??" It's weird. Especially after the news story a couple of months ago from Maryland about the ice cream truck driver who was also selling pot. This was not a concept I'd ever heard of, but as I recall from the Fark thread, the associated view was, "Duh, doesn't EVERYONE'S ice cream man sell pot?"

NumberFiveIsAlive: Couple ice cream trucks cruise around my neighborhood. Told my kids no $$ because the pops they sell for $3.25 each you can get at the store 10-20 in a pack for a that price. Not kidding, because I checked.

Also happens that we live in a "gated" community, in that you can't be here without permission (not even drive through) and they didn't get permission. Cops pull them over all the time. One caught a child molester (heard from a neighbor) on one of the trucks.

/overpriced frozen garbage trucks

Nice to hear from you. When did you get out??
(lucky you didn't shoot the driver.)

OccamsWhiskers: I read more information about this today, oh boy.

Both of these guys had way too much product - one had 1500 servings. The other had 2500! That's right.

Four thousand cones in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Although the news is rather sad

"The film shows a fracas between Mr Yummy, run by Zeheer Ramzan, and Mr Whippy, run by Mohammed Mulla, on Palatine Road, Blackburn on 2 June."

In a dust up between Mr. Yummy and Mr. Whippy, go with the latter as it sounds more old skool.

It's not easy getting ice cream from the Gene Genie

ChipNASA: OccamsWhiskers: I read more information about this today, oh boy.

Both of these guys had way too much product - one had 1500 servings. The other had 2500! That's right.

Four thousand cones in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Although the news is rather sad

What about the poor reporters who did the inventory on these children's treats?

Though the cones were rather small, they had to count them all.

Somebody messed with the BAD Humor Man.

Durendal: Ah, ice cream truck turf wars. It's a cold underground world, a place where blood and melted fudge-pops mix amidst a chorus of godawful jingle-jingle music.

You laugh, but the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars in the '80s took the lives of 6 people.

ChipNASA: NumberFiveIsAlive: Couple ice cream trucks cruise around my neighborhood. Told my kids no $$ because the pops they sell for $3.25 each you can get at the store 10-20 in a pack for a that price. Not kidding, because I checked.

Also happens that we live in a "gated" community, in that you can't be here without permission (not even drive through) and they didn't get permission. Cops pull them over all the time. One caught a child molester (heard from a neighbor) on one of the trucks.

/overpriced frozen garbage trucks

Nice to hear from you. When did you get out??
(lucky you didn't shoot the driver.)

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Get out of what? If you're referring to my duty status I'm still in. As for the driver, I didn't have to. He was already in cuffs with 3 squad cars right there by the time I drove by. By "gated" community I mean "off base housing" that doesn't have a fence, guard shack, or guard, but it's government property patrolled by base cops. That and the fact that there are about 10 people per block around here with firearms and better training than doughnut cops in the use of such means I don't worry much.

If you mean jail, I've never been in. I usually just lurk, and post when I feel like it...

/Did call in and had a large number of security and civilian police try to find the jackass that tried getting close to my kids on their way home from school
//Worst place in the world to commit a crime is where they train thousands to kill shiat for a living
///Often with excessive force :)
//slashies

"I'm your ice cream man, stop me when I'm passin' by"

Isn't there a clip out in the intertubes where a dude is dancing in the street and gets clipped by an ice cream truck?

blatz514: Isn't there a clip magazine out in the intertubes where a dude is dancing in the street and gets clipped by an ice cream truck?

/pet peeve

I can believe the ice cream turf wars.

The trucks I saw in the article were far nicer than the "ice cream trucks" here in the Las Vegas area. Ever seen a beat up old brown van, with a window AC Jerry-rigged to the back window, with hand painted markings that are misspelt words with some stickers of various ice creams? And the funny thing is, it isn't just one of these crappy ice cream trucks that I saw like this, but its pretty standard style for ice cream trucks in the Las Vegas Area, specially North Las Vegas.

Can't wait to get move from this hellhole.

I thought this was going to happen at the park where I was watching a sports tournament this weekend. We were in a crap neighborhood, and its generally questionable whether the ice cream man is actually selling ice cream or something else out of his truck in that area. When a second truck showed up, we all wondered if an ice cream man rumble was going to take place in the middle of the street.

Investigating the case:

Iceboxxx: I can believe the ice cream turf wars.

The trucks I saw in the article were far nicer than the "ice cream trucks" here in the Las Vegas area. Ever seen a beat up old brown van, with a window AC Jerry-rigged to the back window, with hand painted markings that are misspelt words with some stickers of various ice creams? And the funny thing is, it isn't just one of these crappy ice cream trucks that I saw like this, but its pretty standard style for ice cream trucks in the Las Vegas Area, specially North Las Vegas.

Can't wait to get move from this hellhole.

Lol...i live in vegas and have seen that truck. Heehee

12 ice cream men on the same route... No wonder they fight

richlw: 12 ice cream men on the same route... No wonder they fight



Twelve milkmen IS theoretically possible. Thirteen is silly.

/still runs out when I hear the ice cream man.

NumberFiveIsAlive: ITG ice cream truck rant

Wow you really showed the Ice Cream truck vendors who's boss eh? Complete with unsubstantiated pedophilia accusation. Don't fark around with NumberFiveIsAlive he can screw over some poor sod trying to make a living and won't hesitate to do it.

I hope your gated community catches teh ghey.

NumberFiveIsAlive: ChipNASA: NumberFiveIsAlive: Couple ice cream trucks cruise around my neighborhood. Told my kids no $$ because the pops they sell for $3.25 each you can get at the store 10-20 in a pack for a that price. Not kidding, because I checked.

Also happens that we live in a "gated" community, in that you can't be here without permission (not even drive through) and they didn't get permission. Cops pull them over all the time. One caught a child molester (heard from a neighbor) on one of the trucks.

/overpriced frozen garbage trucks

Nice to hear from you. When did you get out??
(lucky you didn't shoot the driver.)

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Get out of what? If you're referring to my duty status I'm still in. As for the driver, I didn't have to. He was already in cuffs with 3 squad cars right there by the time I drove by. By "gated" community I mean "off base housing" that doesn't have a fence, guard shack, or guard, but it's government property patrolled by base cops. That and the fact that there are about 10 people per block around here with firearms and better training than doughnut cops in the use of such means I don't worry much.

If you mean jail, I've never been in. I usually just lurk, and post when I feel like it...

/Did call in and had a large number of security and civilian police try to find the jackass that tried getting close to my kids on their way home from school
//Worst place in the world to commit a crime is where they train thousands to kill shiat for a living
///Often with excessive force :)
//slashies

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You said "Gated Community" and I follow up with..."Eskimo Pie" ...I mean....George Zimmerman!!

Eirik: We have one that drives though the neighborhood playing tinny Christmas music. Believe me, it takes a second to realize that you're listening to "Silent Night" in the middle of June.

You must live in Renton...(Checks profile) Ok, Lake Stevens.
They're probably part of the same company. They drive my wife nuts when they come rolling through our neighborhood playing christmas music

NumberFiveIsAlive: blatz514: Isn't there a clip magazine out in the intertubes where a dude is dancing in the street and gets clipped by an ice cream truck?

/pet peeve

So does that mean he got "magazined" by the ice cream truck?

illogic:
Since you still fail to understand, my "gated community" is US military property. No one, and I mean no one, is allowed unless you are a resident, a guest of a resident, or an authority figure of the United States Department of Defense. Not even civilian law enforcement is allowed unless coordinated and escorted by base personnel.

These "poor sods" are trespassing on federal property. Verifying their identity and then escorting them off the area is actually a pretty lame reaction, considering.

Thanks for the knee-jerk. I see a lot of that here. Sometimes it's funny... sometimes.

NumberFiveIsAlive: illogic:
Since you still fail to understand, my "gated community" is US military property. No one, and I mean no one, is allowed unless you are a resident, a guest of a resident, or an authority figure of the United States Department of Defense. Not even civilian law enforcement is allowed unless coordinated and escorted by base personnel.

These "poor sods" are trespassing on federal property. Verifying their identity and then escorting them off the area is actually a pretty lame reaction, considering.

Thanks for the knee-jerk. I see a lot of that here. Sometimes it's funny... sometimes.

Oh I think I understand perfectly. Your dick is so goddamn big and important the Department of Defense declared your gated community a top secret restricted area but didn't bother putting any security or checkpoints around the perimeter just so that you could periodically brown nose the local enforcement and report violaters for breaking the rules.

Stop me when I'm passing by.

Prank Call of Cthulhu: The one in my neighborhood plays some tune whose real name escapes me--I can only remember the childhood parody lyrics:Oh, I had a little chickieBut she wouldn't lay an egg,So I poured hot waterUp and down her leg.Well, my little chickie cried,And my little chickie begged,And that little chickieLaid a hard-boiled egg.

Turkey in the Straw

illogic: NumberFiveIsAlive: illogic:
Since you still fail to understand, my "gated community" is US military property. No one, and I mean no one, is allowed unless you are a resident, a guest of a resident, or an authority figure of the United States Department of Defense. Not even civilian law enforcement is allowed unless coordinated and escorted by base personnel.

These "poor sods" are trespassing on federal property. Verifying their identity and then escorting them off the area is actually a pretty lame reaction, considering.

Thanks for the knee-jerk. I see a lot of that here. Sometimes it's funny... sometimes.

Oh I think I understand perfectly. Your dick is so goddamn big and important the Department of Defense declared your gated community a top secret restricted area but didn't bother putting any security or checkpoints around the perimeter just so that you could periodically brown nose the local enforcement and report violaters for breaking the rules.

It's called privatized housing. Not the best decision the brass ever made, but that's why It's outside the wire. But keep telling me It's a universal right to be on government property without permission. Apparently you miss the threads here about people fleeing cops and try to hide on a military base.

So where was Mr. Bunny when all of this was going on?

Ice cream vendors are prone to explosive fits of rage. Who knew?

NumberFiveIsAlive: Couple ice cream trucks cruise around my neighborhood. Told my kids no $$ because the pops they sell for $3.25 each you can get at the store 10-20 in a pack for a that price. Not kidding, because I checked.

Also happens that we live in a "gated" community, in that you can't be here without permission (not even drive through) and they didn't get permission. Cops pull them over all the time. One caught a child molester (heard from a neighbor) on one of the trucks.

/overpriced frozen garbage trucks

If you were a child molester what job would you try for that doesn't have a background check? The IC truck that drives around here has a worse paint job than the garbage trucks. You did list the top two reasons not to let your children near those things and I thank you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ Ice_Cream_Wars

Good thing I sell my stuff on a motorcycle. Makes for a faster getaway!

He thought he was ramming Mr. Softee. Unfortunately, it turned out to be Mr. Hardass.

You do NOT want to ram Mr. Hardass.