Cone biz’s vanilla gorillas

[Renew Deal]

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 wouldn’t notice. That was the point — so when we leave we wouldn’t come back again. If you see a Mister Softee truck, you know bad things are coming!”
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cone_biz_2S51Qn5mlSKM2PIoItWMQO

[HopeHoops]

1. CAN'T we ALL just get ALONG? You're not supposed to LITERALLY be screaming for ice cream!

[Waltons_Mtn]

2. Ah the free market working to perfection.

Had a repub friend once that said the best example of the free market was the drug cartels.

[KurtNYC]

3. I'm in a small town now and the police won't move this one food vendor who

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.