Police Say Ice Cream Vendor Used Dry Ice to Burn Kids

WOAI ^ | 4/30/2005 | WOAI

[holymoly]

"This is just a strange situation," said Officer Walt Melnyk, spokesman for the Bryan police department. "I'm sure he didn't mean any harm."

Oh, of course not. It was all in jest.   </sarcasm>

[al baby]

Roberto Martinez Sanchez


undocumented good humor man?

[randog]

Walt needs to cut back on the prozac.

[holymoly]

undocumented good humor man?

That would be my guess:

...he remained in the Brazos County Jail on an immigration hold...

[Killborn]

Killborn's ideal punishment for this punk:

1 minute dry ice in pants

5 minutes parental and 5 minutes police @$$ whomping

5 year jail term - 5 months solitary

[wideawake]

Although Sanchez paid an $8,000 bond for the two counts of injury to a child, he remained in the Brazos County Jail on an immigration hold, jail officials said.

Looks like.

But remember, he's only burning the children with dry ice that Americans don't want to burn with dry ice themselves.

[ozarkgirl]

Although Sanchez paid an $8,000 bond for the two counts of injury to a child, he remained in the Brazos County Jail on an immigration hold, jail officials said.

Where does an illegal ice cream vendor get $8000 and if he had to pay only 10%, where does an illegal ice cream vendor get $800?

And why did they let him pay the fine if he didn't get out? Seems like if he's on immigration hold they should not have allowed him to shell out the bucks for the fine and still not get out of jail.

[Gunrunner2]

>>Sanchez admitted he made an error in judgment but insisted to police that he at no time forced the children to participate in the incident, police said. <<

Yeah. . .

"Hey little kid, hold this and you will get ice-cream. . .just hold onto it. . .and when you get hurt, because you didn't know any better, it's not my fault. . .it's the fault of the dry-ice!"

Moron.

[holymoly]

Where does an illegal ice cream vendor get $8000

A jaded person might speculate that perhaps he was selling a little "snow" along with the ice cream.

[Americanexpat]

That SOB knew exactly what he was doing. He needs to go to jail. His boss will probably end up getting sued too.

[DTogo]

Where's Vlad the Impaler when you need him?

[Brad’s Gramma]

"I'm sure he didn't mean any harm.

No comment. Absolutely none.

[skip_intro]

Although Sanchez paid an $8,000 bond for the two counts of injury to a child, he remained in the Brazos County Jail on an immigration hold, jail officials said.

If only more American citizens would step up to the plate to abuse children we wouldn't have to import them from points south.

[Larry Lucido]

It's okay, folks, the ice cream man has been rehabilitated and is now gainfully employed as a liquid nitrogen delivery driver.

[GSlob]

The kids appear to be rather retarded: a modest size piece of dry ice can be held (and carried) in bare hand without any injury by continuously tossing it up (several inches), then catching and immediately tossing it up again. Using the same technique, one could put a small piece of dry ice (about 0.5 by 1") in one's mouth, continually move it around with one's tongue and blow smoke. In this last case, however, one needs to spit out the dry ice piece before it becomes too small.

[nuconvert]

"I'm sure he didn't mean any harm"

Of course he did.

[sasquatch]

We used to beg the icecream vendors in Stanford Stadium for dry ice so we could play with it. Far more interesting than the football game for 7 year olds.

[AngrySpud]

You're questioning whether the *kids* are retarded?

[Bob]

The kids appear to be rather retarded:...

Retarded? I doubt it.

From the article:
He went to Sanchez, who then put the dry ice in the boy's hand and held his hand shut, according to court documents.

Kind of hard to toss the dry ice into the air with your hand being held closed.

[GSlob]

"You're questioning whether the *kids* are retarded?"
Yes. As young kids, my friends and myself used to do with dry ice the things I mentioned. None of us was a genius (both then and now), we taught ourselves how to do it, and nobody got hurt. Our ages at the time were about what was mentioned in the article - say, 6-7 years. So if we could do it then, what prevented those present-day kids from doing it now?