Saturday, August 7, 2010

Ice Cream Men and Other Perverts

Ice Cream Men and Other Perverts

You can thank IOwntheWorld.com for publicizing this local story out of Memphis.

It relates to that iconic summer noise and treat, those ice cream trucks that meander through America’s streets and byways during the warm months with their mind-numbing, repetitive cacophonies blaring from their speakers luring kids with their seductive music like the rat catcher, the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

In the Memphis instance, the pied piper was a guy named Onuoha Agba who operated an ice cream truck in Shelby County and who may have sold some banana nut crunchy cones or chocolate peanut surprise cups but whose business plan was far less wholesome. Agba, it is alleged, would also engage in barter, offering ice cream to little girls in exchange for their flashing him, lifting up their shirts for his perverted entertainment.

Some months ago, WSHN television had confronted Agba and accused him of employing “sex offenders and murderers” to peddle his wares. See the video of that confrontation here–and be mindful that Mr. Agba was not pleased with being confronted and the video includes some very unsavory language: http://tiny.cc/iyrsb

That report led to a new Tennessee law barring sex offenders from selling ice cream from trucks although the statute doesn’t require background checks, a measure which bona fide drivers support.

Agba’s employment practices became more transparent recently when he was arrested practicing his pedo-scam, as described in the above WSHN video. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1831)

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