Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Chill Out: Man in Ice Cream Cone Costume Mistaken for KKK Protester

Daniel Aviles wave to motorists from The Ice Cream Family Corner & Sandwiches in Ocala, Fla. (© Doug Engle/Star-Banner/AP)

This guy – unlike his employer who’s from Puerto Rico – has probably heard of the KKK, but didn’t think his ice cream cone suit looked like a klansman (or didn’t care). I know these are hard times and people will do whatever for money. That outfit must have been uncomfortably warm under the Florida sun.

An ice cream shop in Florida (where?) was hoping that he would drive more business into the store.

But apparently the pointy white hood bore too strong a resemblance to a Ku Klux Klan uniform and some people got upset. The owner, who's from a Caribbean island, told the local newspaper she had never heard of the white supremacist group.                                              news source & photo

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