ICE CREAM MAN attacks fat kid

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Ice cream vendor ordered to cool off



By David Conti
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, May 11, 2005


A Good Humor man was served 18 months' probation Tuesday for losing his cool with a foul-mouthed teenager.
Nazzareno Didiano, 44, stopped dishing out peanut butter bars and Blue Bunnies last May 12 and began pummeling a pudgy-faced Bloomfield teen during a meltdown.

The teen, now 14, told Allegheny County Judge John A. Zottola during a brief trial that Didiano grabbed him by the arm, yanked him from his bike, punched him in the face and slammed him into a wall.

The attack came after the boy berated and cursed Didiano over the cost of his cones.





"I wanted to tell him I didn't appreciate being talked to like that," said Didiano, who denied punching the boy.

Zottola ruled he did not believe Didiano and convicted him of simple assault. In addition to the probation, Didiano must take anger management classes and reimburse the teenager $20 for damage to his bike.

The teen giggled as Didiano recounted the obscenities directed at him.

Didiano, who worked for Paul's Ice Cream Co., served up his own frosty insults.

"I told him he didn't need any ice cream anyway because he's fat," said Didiano.

The teen, about 5-foot-5 and 140 pounds, responded by calling Didiano a "bald (expletive) ripoff." Didiano later attacked when he found the boy sitting on a bike two blocks away.

Assistant District Attorney Dan Regan presented photographs of a red-faced victim with a cut inside of his mouth.

"He instigated the whole thing," said Didiano, who is looking for a new job.

The teen's mother said she's satisfied with the verdict, but complained that her son is now self-conscious about his weight.

"This has been a nightmare," she said.

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TOO BAD THE TEEN LEARNED THE WRONG LESSON HERE!!!!

Both were in the wrong and both should have been punished!!! Poor wittle boy is conscious about his weight. Then do something about it!! Quit eating ice cream. You can bet he was conscious about it before this happened too. And yes I realize there could be medical conditions. I am obese, but I do not go around whining about my weight.

[kmanWX]

TOO BAD THE TEEN LEARNED THE WRONG LESSON HERE!!!!

Both were in the wrong and both should have been punished!!! Poor wittle boy is conscious about his weight. Then do something about it!! Quit eating ice cream. You can bet he was conscious about it before this happened too. And yes I realize there could be medical conditions. I am obese, but I do not go around whining about my weight.

Easy said than done!

Plus 140 pounds at 5 feet 5 inches is not really fat. I understood if he weights 200 pounds. If he keeps on being selfconscius about his weight he would more likely eat more and his weight would increase to 200 pounds.

What the ice man did was wrong.

[James]

It's certainly a tricky situation. It does seem that they are both at fault though, IMHO.

[beenthru6]

I think the teens mother ought to be more concerned about his foul mouth. I am just amazed at the parents who don't even blink when their kids are rattling off one profanity after another. Not only does my teenage daughter not use profanity, but she says "yes ma'am and yes sir".

The ice cream man was just as bad. He needs to grow up and be an adult. You don't get into "urinary olympics" with someone else's kid unless you want to get into trouble.

[JenBayles]

"Urinary Olympics"! I gotta remember that one!

[beenthru6]

Jan, I guess that would be considered the politically correct way to put it.

[krysof]

He's really not fat, just a bit chubby and maybe a few pounds overweight, I hate this kinds of things.