5 Worst Ice Cream Truck Stories

For some reason, ice cream trucks attract a certain criminal element. Here are five incredible, but true, stories of ice cream trucks gone bad!
- A man from Brooklyn, NY became enraged when his $18,000 custom ice cream truck was taking too long to complete. Rather than relax with a delicious snow cone, he took a train to visit the manufacturer in Oregon and shot an employee in the head.
- Cops arrested a man in Texas selling $5 to $10 bags of marijuana to school children from an ice cream truck. Police didn't witness any sales, but they found drugs mixed in with the frozen deserts. Although the outside showed pictures of the delicious dairy treats, the inside had plenty of drug paraphernalia. The song of the ice cream truck signaled that "pot-sickles" were coming.
- In an incident of ice cream truck road rage, the driver of an ice cream truck stabbed a man in the chest with a screwdriver in south Florida. The man told police that he was being followed by the ice cream truck and was stabbed after getting out of his car to confront the driver.
- In Kansas City, some dude flipped out after ordering an ice cream sandwich from an Ice Cream truck and started shooting. The driver had serious injuries.
- A man in the UK was convicted of piracy when he sold bootlegged CDs, DVDs, and video games from his ice cream truck.
Moral of the stories; In addition to providing delicious summer treats, ice cream trucks can be dangerous hotbeds for illegal activity.
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