Boston.Com - Ice cream truck drivers would need to submit to fingerprint-based background checks in Brookline under a proposal before Town Meeting this fall. The proposal is one of 19 articles on a warrant approved by Selectmen Tuesday for the Nov. 15 Town Meeting, which was already expected to generate controversy over a resolution asking the School Committee to stop recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance in Brookline Schools.
And thus, an American institution was killed. Listen, there aren't a lot of ice cream truck drivers left out there, I know we're all concerned and want to keep our kids safe, but we've also got to consider the industry. This will kill it. It ain't like you get into the ice cream truck driving business for money, it's horrible for your health, gobbling fudgesicles, nutty-buddy's, and Airheads all day long, blowing out your ear drums playing that high pitched music, hunched over all day leaning out that window, all the while sweating your ass off in a tin box while the ice cream taunts you in it's freezer boxes. It's a miserable job.
