Posted on 06/06/2016 7:12:12 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A man snatched about $700 from a Maine-based ice cream vendor who was selling at the Ithaca Festival for the first time on Saturday.
Robert and Jane Walters were selling ice cream around 5:30 p.m. on the 130 block of West State Street when the incident happened.
The two have run the Island Cow Ice Cream Co. for the past 20 years out of Boothbay Harbor, Maine and usually sell ice cream along the east coast during the summer.
Robert Walters said he was separating the bills in a basket he places money in and began talking to another vendor. Shortly afterward, a customer walked up to the booth and he began scooping ice cream for the person.
"When I turned around to get change out of my basket, the basket wasn't there anymore," he said.
A woman working at the recycling bins nearby told him a young man grabbed the basket and headed north around the back of Press Bay Alley. But Walters said he never saw the thief.
"We live in Maine where it's very safe. Our doors aren't locked," he said. "It was kind of disappointing. We're very sad today also because usually things like that don't happen to us and we really trust people. We really love what we do."
He went on to say, "It just makes us feel really sad because we go to Baltimore. We go to Syracuse. We go to New York City and we never have problem. Never have we had a problem....So when it happened it was really a shock," he said.
A few people gave the Walters donations Sunday. One person Robert Walters gave free ice cream to Saturday gave him $20 and another ice cream vendor -- an employee at Ben and Jerry's -- gave him $100. Festival organizers also offered him a hotel for the night and several food vouchers, which he and his wife declined.
He said the generosity has been thoughtful, but he's not sure if it changes the tone of his first visit to Ithaca. "That made us feel a little bit better."
"How do we feel about Ithaca? It's hard to say because it leaves a sad taste when something like that happens," he said. "Most of the people are nice, but that money is a lot to us. We're not rich people. It's the beginning of the year and it means a lot to us. We're very careful with money."
Yet another reason I’m glad I’ve skipped the Ithaca Festival since around 2001 when it started accelerating downhill.
No, you weren't, and as a direct result of that, now it's gone. And instead of stating that you've learned not to be so naive as to leave $700 in a basket on the street and turn your back on it and you'll be more careful next time, you just keep saying that you're "sad."
GROW THE HELL UP!
In Ithaca that’s just welfare for thieves.
The difference is the European cathedrals, though numerous,
are ill-attended.
I've been all over the world except Australia, South America and the Antarctic.
HIGH...above Cayuga’s waters....
There MUST be someone on the planet that doesn't know that.
City of evil alert!
Leave money in a basket unwatched? Dumb AND stupid.
What goes on in Europe doesn’t register with most Americans.
And before the internet, it was even worse. Living abroad is an eye opener.
A woman working at the recycling bins nearby told him a young man grabbed the basket and headed north around the back of Press Bay Alley, but didn't feel it necessary to tell him at the time it happened... RATS is as RATS does
Mayor Baby Obama will probably blame this on the lack of free ice cream shops where sugar addicts can safely get their fix without stealing.
Professional Curtesy, I assume.
1. I know. Never has much.
2. I know. We lived in the middle east (KSA) in the 1980's for five l-o-n-g years. But, we got what we wanted out of it: lots of money. Set us up very well. No federal income tax on the first $80,000.00 made over there for Americans working for Saudi ARAMCO.
Well, I don't recall the name of the town but I guess Maine just AIN'T "Catholic." That was a-okay with me as I liked the state very much.
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