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Two ice cream vendors clash in turf war

  • 08-04-2014 11:43AM
    #1
    mathie
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    Two ice cream men are facing charges of assault in a case where it was claimed that one reached into the other's van and pulled his ice cream lever.

    The highly competitive ice cream van trade in Cork city is what has led to the turf wars between the two ice cream men, according to Inspector Bill Duane.

    Frederick Williams (31), of Gurranabraher, Cork is charged with assaulting Alan O'Halloran (29), from Churchfield, Cork on September 20, 2013.

    O'Halloran is also accused of assault causing harm to Williams on the same occasion.

    Both defendants are charged with assault causing harm to the other.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/two-ice-cream-vendors-clash-in-turf-war-30165943.html

    What's the next level up from a first world problem?


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  • #2
    Wossack
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    oooooo matron!


  • #3
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    mathie wrote: »
    What's the next level up from a first world problem?

    99 problems (with sprinkles)


  • #4
    Thud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,769 ✭✭✭Thud


    they should both have their asset frozen until Sundae


  • #5
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Reminds me of that peter kay thing..!! :D


  • #6
    kfallon
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    If you've not seen it before:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf_mPKzNGzQ


    "If they don't get up quick then it's bye bye Sunday football!!!"


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  • #7
    kfallon
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    mauzo! wrote: »
    Reminds me of that peter kay thing..!! :D

    SNAP :D


  • #8
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    This is an Ice-Cream war!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHMFooKZsFs


  • #9
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    In Before ...

    The scene of the crime was sealed-off using cones ...

    Special-agent 99 is investigating ...

    There are hundreds and thousands of similar crimes ...



    Edit: Too late


  • #10
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Funnily enough things like ice-cream vans and hot-dog stands have long been the cause of brawls and feuds in urban estates in Ireland. The fact that ice-cream vans in Cork were the most commonly used form of money laundering for drugs didn't help matters either.


  • #11
    jimgoose
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    Keep spendin' most our lives, livin' in the gangsta's paradise... :pac::pac::pac:


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  • #12
    FullblownRose
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    Reminds me of the Doolin Ferry Turf War (Surf war?). If I remember correctly one ferry sank the other ferry.


  • #13
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    FullblownRose wrote: »
    Reminds me of the Doolin Ferry Turf War (Surf war?). If I remember correctly one ferry sank the other ferry.

    Ein, los! Zwei, los! :pac::pac::pac:


  • #14
    DrumSteve
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    Are a lot of them ice cream vans fronts for laundering money?


  • #15
    smcgiff
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    mathie wrote: »
    claimed that one reached into the other's van and pulled his ice cream lever.

    Haven't heard that Euphemism before.


  • #16
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    I saw a confrontation between two Traveller women and a group of Roma women some years ago in the lobby of the Post Office in St. Andrew's Street in Dublin. The Traveller women had begged there for years and the Roma women had recently started selling the Big Issue outside so it came down to a turf war.

    The Roma women lost the battle that day but they have now clearly won the war as you no longer see Travellers begging in the City Centre any more.


  • #17
    Absoluvely
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    Haven't they ever heard the wise old saying:
    "Let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice-cream."
    ~ Malibu Stacy

    Seriously though, it's Free Cone Day today at Ben & Jerry's outlets - details here.


  • #18
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    smcgiff wrote: »
    Haven't heard that Euphemism before.

    I can't stop laughing!!!!! Aw ffs I hate laughing at my phone in public.


  • #19
    Flippyfloppy
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    Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream


  • #20
    Banjo String
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    I remember our local icecream man was found dead in his van one morning. He was covered in chopped nuts, syrup all over his head and a flake stuck up each nostril.

    The police reckoned he topped himself.


  • #21
    MonstaMash
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    The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative drug distribution territory.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    MonstaMash wrote: »
    The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative drug distribution territory.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars

    There was an episode of New Tricks based around that. Was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread title.


  • #23
    Sunglasses Ron
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    Has anyone ever actually bought, or known of drug deliveries, from an ice cream man?

    I can imagine it in the 80's, but with the expansion in takeaway food to your door delivery, mobile phones and the deregulation of the taxi service leading to everyone and their wife getting a licence surely nobody in their right mind bothers moving drugs using such a loud, brightly painted mode of delivery when using a taxi driver or a food delivery man on minimum wage is more practical.


  • #24
    GAAman
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    That article reads like it was written by a retarded walrus

    X is charged with assaulting Y

    Y is also charged with assaulting X

    Both men are charged with assaulting each other......


  • #25
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    FTA69 wrote: »
    Funnily enough things like ice-cream vans and hot-dog stands have long been the cause of brawls and feuds in urban estates in Ireland. The fact that ice-cream vans in Cork were the most commonly used form of money laundering for drugs didn't help matters either.
    There was an ice cream van driver beaten to death with a baseball bat in Athenry of all places a while back. Rumour that it was drug related allegedly.


  • #26
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    mathie wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/two-ice-cream-vendors-clash-in-turf-war-30165943.html

    What's the next level up from a first world problem?

    A right pair of screwballs!


  • #27
    fonecrusher1
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    how does it go again?.....

    I scream, you scream , we all scream ....... for hours    , endlessly ...


  • #28
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Feck. It's like the Leeson St hotdog wars all over again!

    :(


  • #29
    TOMP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭TOMP


    ice cream van firefight

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bPvc_kZAg0&feature=g-comedy


  • #30
    RayM
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    I remember our local icecream man was found dead in his van one morning. He was covered in chopped nuts, syrup all over his head and a flake stuck up each nostril.

    The police reckoned he topped himself.

    I remember hearing something about that. Apparently his wife called the Gardai when she noticed that he'd been a wafer a long time.


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  • #31
    metroburgers
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    Flippyfloppy wrote: »
    Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

    1bc27e67058bb6e7bd4c84f6b36a34ad.jpg

    Mod insert?


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