Man Kills teenager in ice-cream truck
03/07/07 Filed in: Finance
Imagine a little girl sat in the back of an ice-cream truck that is not even selling ice creams, and some punk approaches and shoots her as the truck drives away.
To be honest, I find it hard to imagine. It is something you see in a sicko gangsta movie. Usually the main reasons why one real human would ever act like that towards another is if they were on drugs, or performing a gang ritual to earn their colors.
Or perhaps it was part of an economically motivated hit? And I am not referring to a need for a few quick bucks today.
Ice cream is big business this time of year. Maybe this guy was trying to scare the family away so he or his associates at the basketball court could make a few bucks this summer to pay for their many bad habits. Just conjecturing, you know, based on a case that happened in Scotland in the 80's during the Ice Cream Wars. This is so over the top it can't possibly be true? It is fact, sadly.
In the UK there were Hot Dog Van wars too, when hoodlums would turn up at a mobile food vendor's wagon parked in a truck stop and turn the thing over with the guy inside frying his greasy eggs and bacon and serving weak tea. All to intimidate and get them out so they could get their own vendor installed in its place.
And even last week, there is a real t-do going on between ice-cream and hotdog vendors on the sunny Newquay coast. Scratch those eyes out.
And the other gang-related hassles involved another a seemingly innocuous business - billboards. The sites at the sides of roads in prominent positions are worth a fortune and perish the thought you would erect your own billboard on what was considered someone's existing turf. Considered is the vital word, because even if your new billlboard was going up all perfectly legally, all hell would break loose if the billboard mafia felt threatened.
And in Silicon Valley, although no blood was shed, there were plenty of casualties in the billboard wars between Informix and Oracle. Highway 101 has never been the same since it all ended.
No pisstaking here, just pointing out that all may not be as innocuous as it seems.
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To be honest, I find it hard to imagine. It is something you see in a sicko gangsta movie. Usually the main reasons why one real human would ever act like that towards another is if they were on drugs, or performing a gang ritual to earn their colors.
Or perhaps it was part of an economically motivated hit? And I am not referring to a need for a few quick bucks today.
Ice cream wars
Ice cream is big business this time of year. Maybe this guy was trying to scare the family away so he or his associates at the basketball court could make a few bucks this summer to pay for their many bad habits. Just conjecturing, you know, based on a case that happened in Scotland in the 80's during the Ice Cream Wars. This is so over the top it can't possibly be true? It is fact, sadly.
No business idea is safe these days.Petrol was poured into the tenement flat in Ruchazie where the Doyle family lived on 16 April, 1984. Christine Doyle Halleron, 25, her 18-month-old son, Mark, James Doyle Snr, 53, and his sons James Jnr, 23, and Anthony, 14, were killed in the resulting fire.
If you remove the Scottish accents and misty weather and think US yesterday, the principal reason behind the shooting may well be to secure an opportunity for drug pushing. Doesn't sound like anyone thought of that angle.The family were targeted because they refused to give up their van route in Garthamlock. Many ice-cream vans were believed to be used as a front for selling drugs, attracting the attention of gangsters keen to take a slice of the huge returns on offer.
Hot dog van wars
In the UK there were Hot Dog Van wars too, when hoodlums would turn up at a mobile food vendor's wagon parked in a truck stop and turn the thing over with the guy inside frying his greasy eggs and bacon and serving weak tea. All to intimidate and get them out so they could get their own vendor installed in its place.
And even last week, there is a real t-do going on between ice-cream and hotdog vendors on the sunny Newquay coast. Scratch those eyes out.
Billboard wars
And the other gang-related hassles involved another a seemingly innocuous business - billboards. The sites at the sides of roads in prominent positions are worth a fortune and perish the thought you would erect your own billboard on what was considered someone's existing turf. Considered is the vital word, because even if your new billlboard was going up all perfectly legally, all hell would break loose if the billboard mafia felt threatened.
And in Silicon Valley, although no blood was shed, there were plenty of casualties in the billboard wars between Informix and Oracle. Highway 101 has never been the same since it all ended.
No pisstaking here, just pointing out that all may not be as innocuous as it seems.
We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search the keyphrase Cadillac CTS ad or web search. It is a win-win, perhaps!
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