Ice Cream Costume Mistaken for KKK Robe in Florida
- Posted on September 27, 2011 at 6:47pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Classic mix-up.
Daniel Aviles works for Ice Cream Family Corner & Sandwiches in Ocala, Florida, luring motorists in from a busy intersection dressed in a white-hooded ice cream cone costume. The owners tell Ocala.com that their two-month-old business “is getting creamed” because passers-by have mistaken Aviles for a KKK protester:
“Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.
‘One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,‘ ’ Diaz said.”
The store manager is from Puerto Rico and never even heard of the KKK before the controversy, mispronouncing the group as the “Ku Ku Klan” according to Ocala.com.
The owners have remedied the situation by putting the costume in the closet for good. Though the ordeal has cost them business, the owners are trying to make light of the situation.
“We’re a friendly environment, family-oriented,” Liza Diaz told Ocala.com “We’re not (racist). We’re very friendly, very religious.”
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (99)
RepubliCorp
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:05pmWe now know how people can support Obama…. “ If I only had a brain ”
Report Post »WeeeDontNeedNoSteeenkinBadges
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:49pmThey also need EYES connected to those brains.
Report Post »SIGN … SAYS … ICE CREAM … duh!
db321
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:00amYea – I know what you mean – I drove by and saw a Big Dinosaur on top of a building and I thought it was going to jump on my car!
Maybe they can make it a Chocolate Ice Cream – nope – don’t even want to go their.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:20amOnly in Ocala. I moved from there 2 years ago, lived there for 9. Can people NOT see the ice cream CONE or are they so stupid they can’t read his sign?? That town is so jacked up it is ridiculous. Very political structure. An editor of one of three upscale magazines (yes, they have three huge elitist publications) got caught plagiarizing her articles. Wesley Snipes’ trial was there. John Travolta and Kelly live nearby. Debra LaFave brought her teenage victim there. Melinda Duckett is believed to have disposed of her child’s body in the forest nearby. Ocala is weird. With the exception of my friends and a few select people the town is a conundrum. The people who mistook this guy for a KKK member are complete and utter idiots.
Report Post »quarter horseman
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 7:03amBlack panthers.. Polling place… Threats… And thease people are scared of an ice cream cone my LORD.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 7:28amSign says Ice Cream, and it’s being worn by a HISPANIC! yea, KKK, right. They don’t even like the French.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:47amAMEN to that republicorp
““Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.”
Report Post »I have seen LOTS of things but the level of stupidity that this statement shows is almost beyond belief. What kind of flake did this guy marry. Obama supporters without a doubt. A cr*p load of scarecrows looking for a brain for sure!
Live_Free_orDie
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:18amI don’t understand the reaction. I thought it proved the KKK is finally diverse and promoting the touchy feely Hispanic Heritage Month. The hood is vanilla and has sprinkles of all colors…therefore it’s totally Gay and PC, which appeals to most Liberals. Instead we get…Run away it’s the KKK…ya know…we have a freaking country full of morons!!!
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:16am.
Report Post »Obama “Base”
How stupid can you be?
You’re so used to using “race” as the way to everything handed to you,
that you see race in everything.
Ruler4You
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:47amThe problem here is ‘stupidity’.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:03pmGive me a break. Surrounded by idiots we are.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 7:21amidiots we are surrounded by YES… LOL
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:55pmI would have thought the waffle cone would have been a dead giveaway.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:00pmOnce again, assuming people have common sense is becoming more and more of a mistake. Though I think the pink sprinkles would have also helped with the argument, or maybe the fact that you can see his face and he is Puerto Rican. Last time I checked, not too many of them are in the Klan.
Report Post »GJPinks
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:18pmIf you support the Klan and then you’re against it……… you are waffling..
Sorry about that chief.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:51pmAre these the same people who call 911 when they don’t get nuggets an MacDonalds?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:43pmSomebody has a REALLY BIG ‘chocolate chip’ on their shoulder if they thought the dude wearing an ice cream cone was kkk. Did she think the kkk now wears waffle cones to go with their candy-sprinkled hats, and that they have stopped just cutting out the eye-holes, but are brave enough to now cut out the entire FACE?
Bunch of IDIOTS or bunch of people LOOKING TO FIND racism, even where it CLEARLY DOES NOT EXIST !
“What a maroon!” – B. Bunny
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:53pmHey, these people are out there and they VOTE! Bet you can’t guess how many voted for Obama…..
Report Post »I wonder how much terror they would cause if they re-did the suit and put a cherry on top?
decendentof56
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:59pmJust another opportunity to divide America along racial lines, Tom. Any chance to do that, and the Maxine Waters of the world are in. Yopu know it, and so does most everyone on this site. Nov 2012!
Report Post »Ex-Democrat
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:46pm“Somebody has a REALLY BIG ‘chocolate chip’ on their shoulder”
LOL! Best line!
Report Post »ChuckJ
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:49pmAgreed.
Report Post »Blazer123
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:33pm“was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.”
She should really be embarrassed to have this repeated.
Woman calls husband hysterically sobbing “There‘s a KKK member on the sidewalk and I’m scared. What do I do?”
Report Post »“Drive away honey, I’ll take you out for ice cream.”
qpwillie
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:44pmLOL @ “…..take you out for ice cream.”
Report Post »biglipnagger
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:30pmIts the new “PC” KKK uniform with “multicultural-multicolored sprinkles”
Report Post »biglipnagger
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:28pmIn the brotha‘s and sista’s defence- I once thought a guy in a donald duck costume was a klansman. At Disney World. Turned out it was a real duck and he wanted to bite my ‘fro wig. Its easy to mistake white things for klansmen.
Report Post »TreadHead
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:59amWhen the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. If the only card you hold is the race card you think it trumps everything else in the deck. Good thing it wasn’t a Dairy Queen…some bogger-eating moron might have mistaken the D for an F and gay lobby/ cast of Glee might be up in arms too.
Report Post »brothatothenight
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:29pmBLN You are a ignorant human being and a PUSS! Most white guys who don‘t like black guys don’t like us because their wife,sister, or mother very much like us!
Report Post »ClarityCalif
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:19pmSee the movie IDIOCRACY …that should explain a lot about where we are headed in this country.
Report Post »dwntwnbrowne
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:26pmThat movie is pretty funny. Did they not see the cone and sprinkles? I guess we’re so quick to look through the prism of racism when we are constantly told everything is racist these days.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:18pmLol, that is most unfortunate!
Report Post »whitefield
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:16pmThis is very high on the list of moronic things I’ve seen in the news.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:11pmRobert Byrd chunks in the KKK ice cream! And a home-made Democrat waffle-cone! Yum!
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKK
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:03pmThe price we pay for the Jerry Springer Show.
Report Post »db321
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:05amJerry Springer could not have dreamed this on up – this one takes the Cake and Ice Cream.
Report Post »ScottR63
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:00pmchesse us crust!!!!!!! save us all
Report Post »ScottR63
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:04pmIs that a black dude in the cone?
Report Post »spikehb
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:59pmWho says we haven’t been dumbed down and over sensitized by PC bullcrap?
Report Post »BlessedONE333
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:59pmUM YEAH because the KKK always wore a waffle cone outfit!
Report Post »stupid liberals!
Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:59pmyea.. that REALLY looks like a klansman….
Report Post »stupid americans….
COFemale
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:59pmAre you kidding me? This is so lame, it is hilarious. I grew up in Orlando, I would have never thought this was a KKK robe.
It makes you wonder about some of the people now living in Ocala, a town I’ve been to many times, One look and it looks like an ice cream cone to me. Beside if it were a KKK person, their would be a lot more on the corner and they wouldn’t be holding an sign with Ice Cream.
Report Post »BlessedONE333
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:58pmUm…. Yeah sure because the kkk always wore a waffle cone outfit!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:57pmThe KKK wears Sprinkles now? Recruiting Latinos?
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:56pmToo funny!
Report Post »Was it the waffle cone design on the bottom that gave it away?
drt054
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:54pmWow.. stupid ass people. I want to know when the KKK added a waffle cone and sprinkles to their wardrobe?
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:53pmwtfgas
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:52pmLots of in-bred ice-cream eaters in Ocala. How about making it a different flavor? Maybe they’ll get it then?
Report Post »Or maybe sprinkles?
Islesfordian
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 8:55pmHow about the Obama flavor? half chocolate, half vanilla, with nuts, and it tastes like crap.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 7:51pmLol, rofl, omg…Hilarious!
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