• Zombie@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    The ice cream wars were turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs[1][2] and stolen goods[1] from ice cream vans.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars

    He was maybe committed to the route for other reasons. It escalated to violence in Glasgow but I don’t doubt it’s happening in other cities, just without the theatrics of violent turf wars