Posted on 08/06/2005 8:05:49 AM PDT by True Capitalist
In the annals of New York City crime, of bad guys rousted and busted by men in blue, the arrest of the icy man may not go down as a careermaking caper. It will likely never be taught at the police academy. Asked for comment, a spokeswoman even said, "We don't have time to entertain stuff like that."
But the language in the paperwork provides, at the very least, a sharp summer contrast between the world of police jargon and the world of the street, of a vast law enforcement organization bearing down on a single sweaty sidewalk vendor.
According to the criminal complaint, "Deponent states that he observed approximately four un-apprehended individuals surrounding defendant and said cart, and further observed one un-apprehended individual hand defendant a sum of United States currency."
"In exchange, defendant handed to said un-apprehended individual an icy."
The "un-apprehended individuals" were customers, many of them children. The defendant was the man selling them. The deponent was the policeman, and the sum of United States currency was one dollar.
Some would argue that selling an icy on a day as hot as July 19 was more a public service than an illegal enterprise. In fact, his customers tried. "They were saying, 'Dios mío! Leave the sellers alone," Mr. Luna said on Thursday, back at his painted wooden cart, with children swarming around like flies.
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A really talented writer - I'm thinking Ed McBain- would have had a lot of fun with this. Satire.
I would like to read this article but I am currently having a brain fart and I cannot remember the web site that has login and passwords to online newspapers. Could someone please refresh my memory?
the irony of this is that if some incident involving the ice man occurs the NYCLU will sue the pants out of the
NYPD for knowingly and willfully not enforcing the code,
pocket the legal fees, and leave the ice man with melted ice
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