Posted on 06/06/2019 8:19:39 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Shell corporations, millions in fines, and a sting operation in New York City. It's not a noir film; it's a crackdown on ice cream trucks.
The city began seizing 46 ice cream trucks Wednesday in "Operation Meltdown" after operators violated traffic laws and then evaded fines for nearly a decade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news release. As the operators were handing out popsicles from 2009 to 2017 they also were racking up 22,000 summonses and nearly $4.5 million in fines for traffic violations, the city said. The operators had been cited for running red lights, parking near fire hydrants and blocking cross walks, among other things, the news release said.
"We all know from common experience that ice cream trucks are magnets for children," said Zachary W. Carter, the city's corporation counsel. "In order to protect this particularly vulnerable category of pedestrians, our traffic laws must be strictly enforced."
(Excerpt) Read more at -m.cnn.com ...
It ain’t courage if you only pick on the little guys. That’s called bullying.
Going hard after those who pose the greatest threat to society and New York. . . /sarc
Not paying mob boss de Blaaahhhzio his juice money
You got that right. He reminds me of the principal in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!!!
Good one. :D
I am torn, I love those little Paleta carts!
DeBlasio Eats It!
Under Democrat/Leftist control for so many years, the city is desperate — positively overwrought — about money ... they have huge public pensions and costs associated with their massive welfare programs to pay.
DeBlasio is a Nutty-Buddy..................
“I got some ice cream and you ain’t got none, because you on welfare”
E.M.
LOL! I knew somebody would post that!................
Notice they don’t go after UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc., who rack up all kinds of parking tickets. If they did and carriers of this type decided not to deliver in the city it would bring commerce to a grinding halt. Going after a ice cream company not so much ... easy prey.
Dumbasses. All they needed to do was transfer the trucks every yeaar or so and get a different plate and a different name on the title. they deserve to lose their trucks. For being stupid.
Wanna lick? PSYCHE!
Wait, so where are the school kids going to buy their pot now?
This will not engender good humor.................
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...but it will certainly please all of the Mayor’s nutty buddies!
When ice cream trucks become illegal then only illegals will drive ice cream trucks.
I still watch Delirious probably once a month, and still laugh as much as I did then.
Yes and while they’re at it get those villains with the plastic straws!
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