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from the Flint Journal:

YANKEE INGENUITY: The ice cream truck may have been playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy," but the all-American heroes in a bizarre traffic event last Wednesday were fast-acting heavy equipment operators working in Grand Blanc Township. Had Joe Edgcombe of Clio not blocked the path of the erratically driven truck with a front-end loader and backhoe - with a co-worker doing the same from behind - it's easy to imagine someone being seriously injured or worse. As it was, the allegedly intoxicated ice cream vendor banged into several parked cars and mailboxes before hitting the backhoe barricade. And he might have gotten away had Edgcombe's buddy not used his equipment to raise the ice cream truck's rear wheels from the pavement. Now, to complete this happy ending we would expect the ice cream vendor or his company to pay all the damages, including that sustained by the backhoes, which belong to Waldorf & Sons Excavating. Too often, it seems, that no good deed goes unpunished. We hope that doesn't happen here.