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."
>We’re very careful with money.
Not if you have all of it out in the open with shoe kids running around, you idiot.
Cut the young man some slack folks.
He may be a poor deprived Cornell sociology major who needed money for food and protest signs.
I can still remember my first duty station in the Marine Corps after I was done with boot camp. When I was assigned my barracks, the sergeant in charge showed me a $50 bill that he kept under his pillow on his rack (bed). These were open barracks with 40 Marines on either side with a common head (bathroom) in the middle. He said he kept it there to prove that Marines didn't steal from each other and he wanted every Marine to feel secure that their possessions were safe, even though there was absolutely no privacy. Everybody knew the money was there but nobody ever took it. Nor did anything else ever get stolen from any Marine to my knowledge.
Naaah... Had to be a lilly white Trump supporter.
“I can’t lie. I gave that money to my friend Jiggs Casey and he used it to build a nuclear device. I’d appreciate it if you stopped calling me.”
-Stephen Wright and my juxtaposition on where I hope that $700 went.
Money well spent.
Hey, the guy was just practicing socialism. They had money, and he didn’t. it was just redistribution in action. Bernie would be proud.
Have friends who have lived in Sorrento for 40 years, so we know the "big city" of Ellsworth well.
In the NY primary, Ithaca overwhelmingly supported Bernie.
“.....on the 130 block of West State Street.....”
Actually that would be...... on the 130 block of West State Street/Martin Luther King Jr. Street.
A large majority opposed (can you believe it?) the name change to Martin Luther King Jr. Street, so they “compromised”. They just ADDED Martin Luther King Jr. Street to the existing name “State Street”. So now it is West State Street/Martin Luther King Jr. Street. or East State Street/Martin Luther King Jr. Street.
Now that is a mouthful. This is called appeasement. Some idiot comes up with this BAD idea that nobody wants, but because it HAS been brought up and we can’t risk offending the Black community, we end up with this RIDICULOUS street name.
BRING BACK MAJORITY RULES, PLEASE! We are suffering under the OPPRESSION of the minority.
...and I often see it abbreviated as “State/MLK street,” which I can predict will eventually morph into locals calling it “state milk street.”
“HIGH...above Cayuga’s waters....”
liberal men become the daughters....
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