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The streets are running red with cherry ice cream!
A turf war between Mister Softee trucks and rival ice-cream and frozen-yogurt peddlers has exploded this summer, leaving a trail of sabotaged trucks, bloody noses and even death threats.
It got ugly fast, said a 21-year-old Yogo frozen-yogurt driver of a recent run he had with a fuming team of Mister Softee men on Madison Avenue.
One double-parked right next to me, trying to distract me, while the other guy cut off my brakes with a crowbar! the first-year fro-yo slinger said of a tense 15-minute episode.
They tried to do it [so] we wouldnt notice. That was the point so when we leave we wouldnt come back again. If you see a Mister Softee truck, you know bad things are coming!
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HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Waltons_Mtn
(345 posts)Had a repub friend once that said the best example of the free market was the drug cartels.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)has no permits and sets up on the courthouse lawn with 2 grills and picnic coolers. Another guy WITH permits was run out of town within a week after spending $3000 on a cart and permits.
You can't buy lunch here for under $9 because anyone who tries to do it and compete with the locals gets shut down.