Posted on 06/30/2026 5:53:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
Unlicensed food trucks have taken over prime spots around the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and this problem persists at the Great American State Fair.
A small group of operators runs most of these illegal trucks as a coordinated network, Washingtonian reported. Longtime licensed food truck operator Zack Graybill walked around the National Mall during the fair with reporter Jessica Sidman and observed illegal trucks blocking traffic and hydrants, creating fire hazards, charging high prices and intimidating legal vendors through turf wars.
“For all the people eating food right here? The food isn’t being refrigerated. That’s f'ed up. That’s gross,” Graybill told Washingtonian.
He observed that there was no generator running in one of the trucks and no ventilation.
“For all the workers, that’s miserable and shitty. And that’s not healthy. Dangerous,” Graybill emphasized.
One Tunisian vendor named Jackie said a rival pulled a screwdriver during a dispute over a parking spot and tried to stab him in the eye. “He came and stab me,” Jackie said. “He was trying to make me blind. He do it on purpose.” He still sees the attacker operating near the mall.
In 2024, an unlicensed food truck caught fire and exploded near the National Mall, and two people were critically injured, WTOP News reported.
“[T]he majority of the illegal operations in the city are organized crime,” A Park Police spokesperson told Washingtonian. “The majority out there illegally are not individual food-truck operators trying to make an honest living … We’re talking about repeat offenders who ensure that if we remove one truck off the street, that another stands ready to continue collecting money from an unsuspecting public.”
Youssef, an ice cream truck operator, does not list his truck prices. “It depends if somebody got [Casio] or somebody wearing a Rolex, you know? It’s not the same. It really depends on the customer,” he told Washingtonian. He charges $6 to $10 for a single cone at the Mall.
The truck operator mentioned that “we got a team” of food trucks, and more than 50 of them are owned by his “religious” boss.
“Everybody’s religious, pretty much. We’re Muslim people,” he said.
The operation includes “watchers” who look out for police for $80 per day.
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I’m sure Roberts and Barrett approve.
They all need “persuaded” to find thelsewhere. future elsewhere.
Gee, who would have thunk it?
More muzzie piracy. It pains me to see the criminal garbage the country imported.
Dubya set us back 25+ years in properly addressing the problem.
👍👍
Dubya was either a fool or a tool. Hard to tell which.
He was and is Both!
What burns me is that he was the Governor of the State of Texas in Austin, 6 hours drive from the Mexican border and he couldn’t see the invasion going on.
I worked in the Rio Grande Valley are for years and saw that there was no border. There was a gunfight between Mexican drug cartels in the middle of the day in Roma Texas and there was zero response from the feds or the state. WTF!!!
A gun battle in our country in a Texas town by illegals?
Wow.
He knew about it and didn’t care. Just like Clinton, Obama and the Biden Clan.Their plan was an open border super freeway from Mexico- through the US and into Canada.
And nothing on Earth was going to interfere.
All their evil came to an end by Trump!
W and Cheney did a GREAT JOB rooting out
Islamic terrorist cells inside mosques in the USA
in the USA - then went stupid 2bd term on
“Dubya was either a fool or a tool. Hard to tell which.”
Maybe not an either/or situation. Could be he was much more. Back in 2001 someone on FR sent out a FReepmail saying that he and his family were in cahoots with the cartels. The thought creeped me out, and I never forgot it even after all these years.
Muslims.....ick.
What’s the name of their company? “Crooks R Us”? I hope every one of their unsanitary (in many ways) trucks catches on fire and blows up.
A Park Police spokesperson told Washingtonian.
So wtf are you doing about it?
Sounds like nothing...
Like any rational people would eat something prepared by a muslim for infidels. Please note, I said rational people.
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