The history of ice cream truck rivalries is bloody. In 1969, armed rivals held up two Mister Softee garages in Brooklyn and the Bronx, taking nothing but the vital blender blades from thirty-nine trucks—rendering them useless before the blockbuster Fourth of July weekend. (In East New York, an accomplice also kidnapped a Mister Softee driver and blew up his truck.) In 2004, a pair of Bronx seniors selling ice cream with their fifteen-year-old granddaughter were left in critical condition after a former apprentice beat them with a wrench over a route dispute. “A route is money,” the couple’s
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