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Sno Cone Joe arrested for stalking Mr. Ding-A-Ling

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Matthew Kruk

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May 3, 2013, 12:56:17 AM5/3/13
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Ice cream wars: Sno Cone Joe arrested for stalking Mr. Ding-A-Ling
By Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Ahh, the sounds of summer. When Mr. Ding-A-Ling dared to drive his ice cream
truck into the New York neighborhood of Gloversville, Sno Cone Joe's response
was immediate, and brusque, the San Francisco Chronicle reported: "You don't
have a chance! This is my town!"

Police then said Joshua Malatino, 34, and his girlfriend, Amanda Scott, 21, then
embarked on a months-long campaign to drive out the 53-year-old Ding-A-Ling
operator. One tactic, the San Francisco Chronicle reported: Whenever Dung-A-Ling
approached a customer, Mr. Malatino would rush to the scene and offer free ice
cream.

The ice cream truck war came to a head this week. Police finally arrested Mr.
Malatino and his girlfriend and charged them with harassment and misdemeanor
stalking, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

They face three months in jail. And it doesn't look good for Mr. Malatino.
Apparently, he's known by police as a chronic ice cream truck aggressor.

"In the past, Malatino has been warned for this type of behavior," said Capt.
John Sira, explaining how Mr. Malatino had actually driven another ice cream
vendor from town last summer, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Sing it Chuck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLBfwblps8


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Bill Schenley

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May 3, 2013, 1:38:41 AM5/3/13
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On May 3, 1:20 am, silas <silascalh...@aol.com> wrote:
> > By Cheryl K. Chumley
> > The Washington Times
> > Thursday, May 2, 2013
> > Ahh, the sounds of summer. When Mr. Ding-A-Ling dared to drive his ice cream
> > truck into the New York neighborhood of Gloversville, Sno Cone Joe's response
> > was immediate, and brusque
>
> My NYC friends tell me they never heard of this neighborhood.

Gloversville is near Albany, not Manhattan.

R H Draney

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May 3, 2013, 3:42:06 AM5/3/13
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Matthew Kruk filted:
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>Ice cream wars: Sno Cone Joe arrested for stalking Mr. Ding-A-Ling
>By Cheryl K. Chumley
>The Washington Times
>Thursday, May 2, 2013
>
>Ahh, the sounds of summer. When Mr. Ding-A-Ling dared to drive his ice cream
>truck into the New York neighborhood of Gloversville, Sno Cone Joe's response
>was immediate, and brusque, the San Francisco Chronicle reported: "You don't
>have a chance! This is my town!"

Ah, so this is what the news video was about that David Letterman played during
his monologue tonight...I wondered how anybody could do a serious news story
with the words "Mister Ding-A-Ling"....r


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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.

Bo Bielefeldt AKA The Fireball

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May 3, 2013, 6:57:27 AM5/3/13
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On a related note, I wondered how anybody could take Chuck Berry
seriously after he recorded "My Ding-A-Ling".

MWB

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May 3, 2013, 10:33:30 AM5/3/13
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It was banned from the WHOU airwaves in Houlton, MAINE


GO RED SOX NATION

Mark


Diner

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May 3, 2013, 12:10:46 PM5/3/13
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The confusion arises because the author, Cheryl K. Chumley, called Gloversville a neighborhood instead of a city. "The New York neighborhood of Gloversville" indicates it's part of New York City. Calling it simply "Gloversville, New York" would have been much clearer.

-Tim
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David Carson

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May 3, 2013, 4:01:00 PM5/3/13
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On Fri, 3 May 2013 09:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Diner <bway...@gmail.com>
wrote:
She also called the stalking victim "Dung-A-Ling". That can't be good for
business.

David Carson
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R H Draney

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May 3, 2013, 5:34:44 PM5/3/13
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News filted:
>
>On a related note, I wondered how anybody could take Chuck Berry
>seriously after he recorded "My Ding-A-Ling".
>
> Maybe because it *was* his only #1 hit.

Which puts him one up on CCR, the Who, and Bruce Springsteen....r

Louis Epstein

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May 4, 2013, 9:18:37 AM5/4/13
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I recall a National Ding-a-Ling Society based in Glen Ellyn,Illinois...
spotted it in a directory in the late 1970s.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Bo Bielefeldt AKA The Fireball

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May 4, 2013, 2:18:44 PM5/4/13
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On Friday, May 3, 2013 3:50:01 PM UTC-4, News wrote:
> Maybe because it *was* his only #1 hit.

But it's an absolutely travesty that a shitty song like that *had* to be his only #1 hit. Or *a* #1 hit, for that matter.

R H Draney

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May 4, 2013, 6:42:14 PM5/4/13
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Bo Bielefeldt AKA The Fireball filted:
On the other hand, consider that at least it knocked Michael Jackson's "Ben" off
the top of the chart....r

Michael OConnor

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May 4, 2013, 8:58:01 PM5/4/13
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> On a related note, I wondered how anybody could take Chuck Berry
> seriously after he recorded "My Ding-A-Ling".

I could never take Chuck Berry seriously after somebody showed me that
sex film of him urinating on a woman and then refusing to kiss her
because she smelled like urine, then farting directly in her face and
telling her, "You can smell my fart."
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R H Draney

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May 5, 2013, 12:55:01 AM5/5/13
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News filted:
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> It certainly wasn't his fault that "Maybellene" (#5) or "No Particular
>Place to Go (#10) / School Day" or "Rock and Roll Music" (#8) or "Johnny B.
>Goode" (#8) [*] or "Roll Over Beethoven" (#29) or "Sweet Little Sixteen"
>(#2) or 10+ of his other great songs had stiffer competition and couldn't
>reach #1, but the timing of "My Ding-A-Ling" (Oct. 1972) was just perfect to
>make #1!
>
>
>[*] the only rock song shot into outer space on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
>spacecraft in 1977.

Maybe not, but they did include Louis Armstrong ("Melancholy Blues") and Blind
Willie Johnson ("Dark Was the Night")...EMI nixed the inclusion of the Beatles
"Here Comes the Sun"....r
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R H Draney

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May 5, 2013, 4:39:38 AM5/5/13
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News filted:
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>"David Carson" <da...@neosoft.com> wrote in message
>news:km14rl$lhq$1...@dont-email.me...
> ROTFL!
> How I long for the simpler, less-hateful era (circa 1959) when Mr.
>Softee made his appointed rounds.

Yes, vendors were more good-humored in those days....r

Joe Pucillo

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May 5, 2013, 9:39:48 PM5/5/13
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Wasn't it Diner who said...
> On Friday, May 3, 2013 1:38:41 AM UTC-4, Bill Schenley wrote:
> > On May 3, 1:20ᅵam, silas <silascalh...@aol.com> wrote:

> > > My NYC friends tell me they never heard of this
> > > neighborhood.

> > Gloversville is near Albany, not Manhattan.

> The confusion arises because the author, Cheryl K. Chumley,
> called Gloversville a neighborhood instead of a city. "The New
> York neighborhood of Gloversville" indicates it's part of New
> York City. Calling it simply "Gloversville, New York" would
> have been much clearer.

What I don't understand is how Chumley even got a byline on this
"story". She basically reported on the reporting of the SF
Chronicle, and seems to have added very little else.

She can be excused for not knowing that Gloversville is a burg
upstate, since no one within 500 miles has contributed to this
piece.

Oh. Washington Times. Never mind...



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