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We've always known that the city's many community email lists are beehives of communication. Whether being used to promote neighborhood awareness or flush out arguments over local zoning ordinances, the email lists represent the best, the worst and the funniest of living in a densely populated urban area.
This weekend the MPD-1D email list, used by police and residents living and working in the First District, was alive with controversy over a suspect ice cream truck on Capitol Hill. Elaine was first to raise the issue:
Just an observation... Never have I lived where the ice cream truck drives around late at night with the music playing. In the five months I've lived here, I've never seen a single child buy ice cream from this van... but my husband has witnessed adults flock around it. Legitimate sugar fix? or a fix of a different type? Would be a great cover, wouldn't it?A number of residents were quick to knock down the suspicion, noting that they had seen plenty of kids buying ice cream from the late-night vendor. Elaine might not be crazy, though, chimed in Caroline Jhingory:
I am the Ward 6 coordinator in the mayor's office of Community Affairs and Relations.Be forewarned, DCist readers. If you find yourself on the eastern end of Capitol Hill late on a Friday night with nothing to do and a bit of an appetite, this guy may have you covered.I have received various reports of an icecream truck in the Bay St area that may be selling drugs/alcohol and blares loud music t/o the night.
Uncertain, if this is one truck in particular, but if someone can send me the tag number and/or a description of this truck I can check on its' permitts.
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I liked this movie better when it had Cheech and Chong in it.
I've seen this particular ice cream truck running around Capitol Hill. It says "Nice Dreams" on the side. If it's of any help, it is being run by some hippie stoner guy with John Lennon glasses, and a skinny Mexican-American.
Dammit monkey, you totally blew my joke!!
As an aside, I saw it sideswipe a double-parked car owned by a prominent local politician who is best known for an affinity for raping, cooking and eating babies.
I thought all ice cream trucks sold drugs and booze, or is that just in my neighborhood?
awesome....
"Would be a great cover, wouldn't it?"
Yes, blaring music late at night is a great cover for illegal activity.
near potomac gardens we usually have 3 trucks roaming the neighborhood. i became suspicious when it came by at 10pm. on a tuesday. in march. 40° temp. in the rain.
ah, those old listserv stories reminded me of the wild west days here on dcist when anyone could comment without signing in. does that make me old to reminisce about that?
Just to add to Politburo's comment:
"Would be a great cover, wouldn't it?"
1. It's a well known cliche promoted by every stoner ever born
2. Everyone knows the trucks sell drugs, fireworks, and guns. Most of us have bought at least two of the three from a truck around 10am.
3. It has been a theme in about 10-15 lame movies.
How square do you have to be to think this is a sneaky new cover?
If anything it probably isn't selling "opium" and "maryjane" because it would be too damn obvious.
It's prolly' really some nut trying to unload some straight up rocket-pops.
a prominent local politician who is best known for an affinity for raping, cooking and eating babies
No need to beat around the bush. If you mean "Phil Mendelson," just say so.
cminus: now that really made me laugh!
Don't worry; Big Worm will park that truck for the night as soon as Smokey stops playing with his emotions.
And You know this...MAIHN!
Trucks like that are the convenience stores of public housing. They carry cigarettes, diapers, nasty generic soda-pop (none of your "diet" stuff), Vienna sausage, and canned soup. You know, the essentials.
Sometimes they have ice cream, too.
The ice cream truck posts, unfunny at best, are making a circus out of what is supposed to be a crime listserve. This thread may be the most wildly irritating topic to hit the list since the overwrought and precious string of posts waxing poetic about the enduring patriotic glory of DC's home-launched fireworks displays. (Spare me).
We had another homicide in the area just after midnight this morning, yet all I'm reading on the listserve is a bunch of old farts reminiscing about soft serve ice cream or wasting my time with youtube links to "turkey in the straw!" Worse yet, yesterday's suggestion that the cream truck should be playing Styx. (BTW, secretary of balloon dog, you're an idiot, and I bet even your wife would have trouble mustering up a courtesy laugh for that one).
Seriously, people, this is a *crime* list serve, not a vehicle for clumsy sarcasm. Enough was enough about 6 days ago. So please consider this missive an open plea to anyone wasting my time with these posts: Stop now; you're really, really annoying!
As for those who are genuinely bent out of shape and worried about this allegedly criminal treat truck, okay. We get it. The police GET IT. They've responded. They're on the case. So please take your further badgering of them off-line, because nobody here cares. Even the original poster is sorry she launched such a boring blather of posts. So drop it!
For the would-be comedians in the crowd: give up. You're not funny, nobody cares if you miss soft serve ice cream, nor does anyone give a rat's rear leg about the particular song the truck plays or should play.
I suggest your own list serve -- perhaps you could name it "unfunny dolts who believe people want to read their unwelcome, lame banter on a list serve devoted to crime in the first district."
Posters beware: The next person to post an ice cream truck message can look forward to a 6 day old roast beef sandwich in their mailbox. I can figure out where you live!
Final thought for those of you ready to chide me with the "hit the delete button already" suggestions: Save your breath. Obviously I delete these turds as soon as I realize I'm wasting my time on ice cream posts, but that's not the point. I shouldn't have to sift through the posts to see which one is about a homicide a few blocks from my home and which one is from some bored forty something jerk making tired out Styx allusions.
Damn, famst7 is in dire need of a blowjob. What a fucking self-righteous douche you are, dude. Bet your wife wakes up every day and says, "Yup, his gut is gettin' bigger, his peen smaller, and his pupr needs better wipin'.
Big fucking deal. Some people went nuts over an ice cream truck, other folks called them on it, made fun of it, and that's that. Are you bummed that they were out of Chubby Hubby at the HT or something? (You know, you don't HAVE to eat that much just 'cause it's called that).
Whatever. Just fap tonight before bed (like every night, right?) and your eyes will cross, you'll have that sweet release, and you'll be a day closer to The End (otherwise known as your wife's happiest day).
I'll come get my sandwich. Maybe I know where you live too. I mean, who do you think throws all the dogshit on your lawn? We're trying to drive you out, dammit!
IntarTubes. Serious business.
You douche.
Oh, and famst7 -- you got affected by the internets.
Lulz. Epic fail.
I'm a Hill Mom on the MPD-1D website, and I thought the Styx references were funny. Dennis DeYoung is hip again, although Tommy Shaw is far hotter. Oh, and my driver's license says that I'm in my early 30s, so I'm not sure I fit in famst7's stereotype. =)
I think famst7 is the one with the problem and needs to get a life for getting so bent out shape over some silly internet postings. I'm sure it took SO much out of your day to "wade" through a few extra posts, all with the subject line "ice cream truck." If you missed that hint, then you've got bigger . . . issues.
I'm going to play with my children some more today and not worry about some silly newsgroup posts. Lighten up and relax! Life is short. Eat some ice cream. =)
it's a crime blog. and you guys are stupid.
Famst7 -- save time in the future by just typing out:
"YOU KIDS STAY OFF MY LAWN"
This way, we'd know you were a 90 year old humorless fuck and you wouldn't have to spend all those paragraphs to demonstrate it. Also, the e-mail list is a "crime blog" the same way the Titanic is a submarine. Get your grandkids to teach you about the internets.
P.S. Please, (re)tie the front of your robe. Eew.