From the Times:Summer is more than a month away, but the ice cream wars have already begun. In neighborhoods across the city, skirmishes are breaking out over which franchise can sell its wares on which route. And the tension between the city’s purveyors of ice-cold treats can at times be thicker than a Chipwich.
There have been harsh words, hurt feelings and even bloodshed between competitors. In 2004, a couple in their 60s who owned and operated two ice cream trucks were ambushed in the Bronx and beaten with an oversized wrench. The motive, the police said, was the couple’s ice cream route. A rival ice cream salesman was charged with assault and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Bloodshed? Oversized-wrench beatdowns?? Jail time???Seriously?
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Ice Cream Truck War Revs Up [NYT]
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ReplyDeleteI lived in Scotland in the '80s, the era of the infamous Glasgow Ice Cream Wars. The violence by gunshot and arson was so brutal that a special police unit, dubbed by locals "the serious chimes squad," followed ice cream vans around on their routes.
ReplyDeleteThis conflict is referenced in the Bill Forsyth film, "Comfort and Joy."
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