Ice Cream Man Offered Choice of Rainbow, Chocolate or Oxycontin Sprinkles
Summer flies by too fast. One second you're sweating on the front porch, watching neighborhood kids skip through open fire hydrants and eating soft serve cones covered in heroin-strength prescription painkillers — the next, it's Labor Day, your white pants are useless for another eight months, and the Staten Island ice cream guy is doing three-and-a-half:
Louis Scala Jr. sold soft-serve and hard drugs — $20-a-pop "oxy's" — out of his green-and-white Lickety Split truck, city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan had said [...]
Scala, 29, the son of a Manhattan cop, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court today to conspiracy and drug possession charges.
Man, kids today have it so easy. I remember when I'd have to save up all month just to ride my pennyfarthing to the neighborhood soda fountain for an opium malted. Ah sweet, sweet memories. [NYP, photo via licketyspliticecream.net, mugshot via NYP]