You can’t make this kind of stuff up! The last thing you think about when you think of the ice cream man is turf wars getting violent. Did this become ice cream mafia? I am surprised that this doesn’t happen more often in NYC with all the Mister Softee trucks that seem to be on every other block when the weather gets warm. Read more about this cold war after the jump.
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Joshua Malatino and his girlfriend, Amanda Scott, owners of the Sno Cone Jo truck do not like competition. In a town just outside of Albany, NY, they used intimidation and threats to attempt to run the Mr. Ding-A-Ling ice cream truck out of town. Pulling up next to them saying things like “You don’t have a chance”, “This is my town”, and threatening violence, prompted Mr. Ding-A-Ling to call the police. Sno Cone Jo went so far as to follow the competition around town and everytime they would stop for customers, he would run out of his truck and offer free ice cream to anyone who was there, just to take sales away, smh. Even the ice cream truck industry isn’t innocent. Joshua and his girlfriend have been arrested and are facing up to 3 months in jail.
