Posted on 05/25/2007 6:43:30 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
MISSION — For some elementary school students, the familiar ice cream truck jingle apparently meant an easy way to buy drugs.
Police are stunned that children in the third grade were buying pot from an ice cream truck driver, whom they arrested Thursday afternoon.
The driver, police said, was selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana to students coming out of O’Grady Elementary School at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 495 and Holland Avenue.
Customers included third-, fourth- and fifth-graders.
“I can’t visualize any of these kids that age smoking marijuana,” Mission police Chief Leo Longoria said. “It’s a scary thought, but that’s the info we received.”
The driver, a Mexican national, was arrested after police received tips from children about the drug sales.
“What an idiot,” Longoria said of the driver. “But the important thing about this is kids reported it.”
The driver is expected to be arraigned today on drug possession charges. Police are still weighing the possibility of bringing drug distribution charges against the man because they did not catch him selling to anyone.
Police arrested the driver about 4:15 p.m. Thursday several blocks away from the elementary school.
They seized the truck, several bags of marijuana and, presumably, a whole lot of ice cream. ____
This is a Cheech and Chong movie.
Does he get a Z visa or not? Is Mexican national a cute way of saying illegal?
“The ice cream man is coming!
THE ICE CREAM MAN IS COMING!
MOM, THROW DOWN SOME CHANGE!”
I’m your ice cream man. Stop me if you want some pot. (apologies to Van Halen)
You don’t get no ice cream, you can’t afford it. Cuz’ you is on the welfare and your father is an alcoholic.
This story out of Mission, Texas.
Shaking head...
BTTT
He can't visualize parents having the kids buy pot for them? As a kid, my best friend was constantly sent to the store with a note from his mother to buy cigarettes for her.
Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream! Want a lick?
PSYCHE!
Or a Tom Lehrer song...
You are no doubt familiar with songs about the old lamplighter and the old umbrella man and the old garbage collector and all these lovable old characters who go around spreading sweetness and light to their respective communities. But, it’s always seemed to me that there is one member of this happy band who does an equally splendid job, but who has never been properly recognized in song or story, and this is an attempt to remedy, at least in part, that deplorable situation.
When the shades of night are falling,
Comes a fellow everyone knows.
It’s the old dope peddler,
Spreading joy wherever he goes.
Every evening you will find him,
Around our neighborhood.
It’s the old dope peddler
Doing well by doing good.
He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well
That today’s young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow’s clientele.
Here’s a cure for all your troubles,
Here’s an end to all distress.
It’s the old dope peddler
With his powdered happiness.
I know it’s very bad form to quote one’s own reviews, but I would like to mention something that the New York Times said about me a year ago which I’ve always treasured - they said: “Mr. Lehrer’s muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as - taste”.
“it’s like sprinkles...”
“You don’t get no ice cream, you can’t afford it. Cuz’ you is on the welfare and your father is an alcoholic.”
LOL! I rented that DVD not long ago. Just as funny as it ever was. It also makes most contemporary comedians look like rank amateurs.
Give this man a Z visa!
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