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On the list of vehicles that we can say definitively don't make great getaway cars, we now have Good Humor ice cream truck to add to Krispy Kreme truck and gardening truck. Shawn Stewart and Wesley Jumper were, apparently, quite dirty as they deviated from Stewart's normal ice cream route and stopped at a La Plata, Marlyand CVS and boosted $500 worth of shampoo and soap. A hot date deserves hot hair care products, eh? They'd have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for a couple of minor details.
First, trucks designed to transport food don't handle that well and aren't capable of achieving a lot of speed. Second, it's a freaking Good Humor truck. You wonder if they didn't consider that it made them kind of easy to spot. Not surprisingly, they were spotted right away and led police on a chase that reached speeds of 80 mph. Due to the poor-handling nature of the ice cream truck, they plowed into a Chevy Avalanche. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. If only they were driving Japanese drifting ice cream, then maybe they'd have had a chance. (h/t Kitt) [Washington Post]
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"What is this, some kind of shampoo court?!"
/obscure
thank god. there's one less avalanche off the road.
He´d better take a fast fast-food truck
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sooo, who wants to head over to the pick a part with me and cannibalize that vortec v8?
No officer, we don't know anything about any stolen shampoo. All we have in the truck are these delicious Pert ice cream bars.
I don't care if anyone was injured, what about the ice cream?
Don't worry, there'll be plenty of soap and
shampoo bottles on the shower floor in jail!
You notice it's only in the movies where criminals aren't dumber than a box of hammers?
@smalleyxb122:
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you're not like the others, you like the same things I do! waxed paper, boiled football leather, dog breath...we're not hitchhiking anymore! we're RIDING!
Of course this was in the DC region. There seemed to be an overwhelmingly high number of stupid criminals there. Probably, per capita, more than enywhere else I've ever lived.
Interesting factoid of truthiness: La PLata, MD has one of the highest rates of tornado strikes in the state of Maryland.
@skyln95:
While I do not agree with your grammar, I agree 100% with the sentiment of your statement.
No serious injuries + (-1) Avalanches = A good crash.
@graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!: It depends on the hammer!
There are some pretty nice hammers on the market today, including this one appropiately named the Smart Hammer.
So this be the ice-cream truck killer?
Often I have been at tthe CVS and said man I need to steal some shampoo and soap. I guess they were trying to make a "clean " getaway!
Yes I went there, I had too, no one else did and someone had to be the corndog of the bunch
Was that stupid music being blasted on those tinny loudspeakers during the chase?
I must know.
@ mechimike: It's DC. Collecting less-than-brilliant criminals is kind of it's municipal raison d'etre.
So let me get this straight. An Ice Cream truck, lost control and plowed into an Avalanche?
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Was there a chase down an alley, where the Ice Cream truck explodes through a pile of empty boxes. The Avalanche impact had to have been preceded by the Ice Cream truck crashing through a large plate glass window being carried by two guys in white coveralls.
As the police officers (one tall and skinny, one swarthy and 'gritty') approach the tastey wreckage the "Bicycle built for two" music (which had been playinng throughout this thrilling drama) slows and stops.
Cop 1 (the skinny one): We got 'em McNalley!
Cop 2: That's right.[throws cigarette to pavement] These punks will have plenty of time to cool off in the Graybar Hotel. [Pulls out small notebook and clicks ballpoint pen by thumping it against his chest].
--Freeze and pan back--
A chimp walks amongst the frozen actors - climbs McNalley.
Ice Cream crooks sneak away.
--Fade and roll credits
@tenbase: Oh, no! I know what you want! You covet my beloved ice cream bar!
@101 POLAЯ FOLLOWEЯS CAN'T BE WЯONG... WHO DID THAT??: The Smart Hammer.
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From the same people who brought you...
Talk about stupid. So you're gonna steal from a drug store. Do you steal drugs? No. "George, uh, let's steal some shampoo and soap. I hear we can get a good price for it in the NE section of DC."
@dculberson: YOU FORCED ME TU USE IT!!!!!!
Would they prefer he not wash his hair ewwww , if he smelled relay bad can you blame him...
I say good job smelly ice cream man for trying not to smell .
but come on shampoo is only like a 99 cents.
@graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!: Naw, the hammer comes out looking better than the car after hitting a wall.
@101 POLAЯ FOLLOWEЯS CAN'T BE WЯONG... WHO DID THAT??: Yeah, and you're less likely to do any nailing while driving the car. If you know what I mean.
@Race7117: They tried to plea bargain but the judge said No Soap.
Don't worry, that'll wash right out.
And now, with all that shampoo but no conditioner, it's called "Tastee-Frizz."
I got nuthin.
"They'd have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for a couple of minor details."
Those meddling kids and their dog?
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