One-Stop Popcorn and Sex Toy Cart Runs Afoul of Indiana Police

The Evansville food cart is back in business but must stop selling sex toys alongside the popcorn and nachos.

Kwan Dixon/Facebook

Say you're headed home from work, you're hungry, and also in the market for a vibrator. For residents of Evansville, Indiana, this previously presented no particular problem: just visit the one-stop popcorn, hotdog, and sex-toy cart downtown. But, alas, this shining beacon of 21st-century entrepreneurship is now but another victim of the nanny state. On Thursday, Evansville officials shut down Pop's Popcorn and Koosier Daddy's Food Cart, saying proprietor Kwan Dixon did not have the proper paperwork to be selling food and sex toys. 

Dixon told Evansville news station WFIE that he decided to sell sex toys alongside his cart's standard fare because "sex sells. We all love it. We love it more than we actually show it."

"Is sex selling in Evansville?" Dixon continued. "Yeah!" 

It's not all bad news for Dixon, however: his cart is back in business today, albeit sans brightly-colored array of vibrators. 

"I'm legal. Here's the proof," Dixon wrote on Facebook Friday, posting a picture of his up-to-date vendor's permit. "Sorry for the sex toys… But don't bash me for that. We have liquor stores still around schools… We have crack pipes next to the fried chicken at the gas stores. [Where] is the NEWS on that. We still have ice on the ground and I have been paying taxes for 28 yrs. [Where] is the news on the city cleaning the streets."

"I'm trying to put a little buzz in your life and you go crazy," he added. 

In another post Dixon slammed the local news for reporting, inaccurately, that one of the reasons for the shutdown was that his peddler's permit had been out of date. According to the photo Dixon displayed, he has a permit registered with the Evansville Police Department to "Sell products within the City of Evansville as provided under City Ordinance 5.20," issued January 15, 2015, and expiring on the 22nd of this month. 

Dixon also indicated that he'll keep peddling the sex toys via non-food cart venues. In case you're interested:  

Posted by Kwan Dixon on Sunday, 25 October 2015

Comments

[Notorious UGCC]

"We have crack pipes next to the fried chicken at the gas stores."

Wait, what?

And he better be black, because if anyone else said that it would be RACIST.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, he has a Korean first name....

[Notorious UGCC]

At first I took him for a Korean based on the name.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well it's not always mutually exclusive.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

[Where] is the news on the city cleaning the streets."

I'm sure it's because the local government has been cut to the quick.

[SugarFree]

We have liquor stores still around schools... We have crack pipes next to the fried chicken at the gas stores.

This is also my experience of Evansville.

[B.P.]

Wolf's Barbecue is pretty good. I can't vouch for the gas station fried chicken.

[SugarFree]

It depends on the gas station. But The Roca Bar pizza is still fantastic.

[R C Dean]

What's funny is, most gas station convenience stores are chock full of items that seem an odd part of their inventory until you realize they can be dual-purposed as drug paraphernalia.

The crack pipes are those glass tubes that they sell silk roses in.

You're welcome.

[Notorious UGCC]

Very interesting.

She left me roses by the stairs
Crack pipes to let me know she cares

[Citizen X]

Yep. Buy some of that cheap copper Chore Boy scrubbing apparatus and you got yourself a filter. I, uh, heard.

[R C Dean]

Those copper scrubbers are actually excellent for their intended (cleaning) purpose, BTW.

[B.P.]

Fort Collins, Colorado used to have a topless doughnut shop -- Debbie Does Donuts. It was convenient to the Interstate, too.

[notJoe]

Yep. Until the local crusading Sheriff got them shut down.

Funny that. I don't seem to remember if their doughnuts were any good...

[Pathogen]

What difference, at this point... does it make?

[Notorious UGCC]

If they're trying that hard to distract you, I'd guess the answer is no.

[Michael]

"Do you take cream in your coffee?"

[B.P.]

They were pretty good. Seemed to be a lot of truckers in the place.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't think I want to eat donuts around boners. No, boners and donuts definitely don't mix in my book.

[Irish ?s ESB]

Then why do they have a hole in the middle?

Checkmate, prude.

[Citizen X]

Eugene always hated playing ring toss.

[commodious spittoon]

"I'm trying to put a little buzz in your life and you go crazy," he added.

That's the idea.

[chemjeff]

Ha. I continue to be amazed at the creativity of American entrepreneurialism. And I mean that in a sincerely good way, although this particular example is a bit bizarre.

That is what I try to tell people who support the suffocating regulatory state - by imposing all these regulations on people, you are channeling them into one particular mode of behavior, which by necessity excludes other, undiscovered, unforeseen avenues of creativity and entrepreneurialism.

If we had had the 2010's regulatory state back in the 1970's and 1980's, I doubt we would have even gotten a personal computer. It would have been mired in regulatory crap forever.

[Citizen X]

Kwan Dixon is truly a hero for our troubled times.

[Swiss Servator]

A man you can lift your eyes up to and see HOPE!

[Hugh Akston]

Evansville officials shut down Pop's Popcorn and Koosier Daddy's Food Cart, saying proprietor Kwan Dixon did not have the proper paperwork to be selling food and sex toys.

So wait, are they acting on the premise that popcorn isn't a sex toy?

[Notorious UGCC]

Yeah, haven't they seen Troll 2?

[Hugh Akston]

Why are people in 80s movies always so pallid? Was the sun less intense because it was Morning in America?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Everyone was undernourished due to Reaganomics.

[Pathogen]

No global warming back then..

[B.P.]

Ozone hole.

[R C Dean]

Honestly, I suspect its mostly because they didn't use those hideous blue and orange filters on every frickin' frame of every frickin' movie back then.

[Los Doyers]

Sounds like I was born in the wrong decade.

/slathers on sunscreen

[mad.casual]

Why are people in 80s movies always so pallid?

As I recall, everyone slept all day.

[Aresen]

"So wait, are they acting on the premise that popcorn isn't a sex toy?"

It is only if you use real butter.

[Irish ?s ESB]

""I'm legal. Here's the proof," Dixon wrote on Facebook Friday, posting a picture of his up-to-date vendor's permit. "Sorry for the sex toys... But don't bash me for that. We have liquor stores still around schools... We have crack pipes next to the fried chicken at the gas stores. [Where] is the NEWS on that. We still have ice on the ground and I have been paying taxes for 28 yrs. [Where] is the news on the city cleaning the streets.""

I...I'm pretty sure the crack pipes aren't legal either.

[Notorious UGCC]

They should get their film crews to check this out. Shouldn't be hard.

Of course, I don't know what a crack pipe looks like, and I'm not putting that in my search history, but they can.

[Free Society]

I...I'm pretty sure the crack pipes aren't legal either.

That's because it's not a crack pipe, it's a tobacco and/or herbal pipe. Yeah...that's the ticket.

[Chaucer]

Dixon should have just called the vibrators hand-held muscle massagers. Problem solved.

[jesse.in.mb]

Speaking of sex toys. The guy who made Cards Against Humanity has sent those fellows in an Oregon bird watching hut a 55 gallon drum of water-based personal lubricant to go with the dildos people have sent them. SO THOUGHTFUL.

I'll put it in the PM Links, but I feel like 55 gallon drums of lube is my wheelhouse and I wanted to get in first on this.

[Irish ?s ESB]

I was just thinking about that filthy sex toy site that got linked a few years back! Do you have that H&R thread bookmarked or something?

[jesse.in.mb]

google search site:reason.com "55 gallon drum" lube

I actually ended up finding a thread where someone blamed me for that being in their amazon search history and where I linked back to the original thread where SIV linked to forttroff and broke you.

[Irish ?s ESB]

I was young and unschooled in such vulgarity at the time.

[jesse.in.mb]

Also, in case anyone is shopping for 55 gallon drums of water-based personal lubricant: Amazon has you covered, but it's not Prime eligible.

[commodious spittoon]

About the Product

The Ultimate Lube Keg
Best Value
Lube Pump Included

Can the pump be used for anything... else?

Asking for a friend.

[jesse.in.mb]

I... I don't know?

You might want to ask Quincy, 12D, our resident water-based personal lubrication technologist.

[commodious spittoon]

Either you have a freakish memory or you keep random comment threads bookmarked for reference, but either way, I'm impressed.

[commodious spittoon]

Oh, wait, this is the thread you literally just explained finding.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm decent about remembering key words for narrowing it down. I remembered that the lube was made from cellulose and that winnowed the possible threads down considerably.

[commodious spittoon]

Maybe you can help me find that one thread in which AC made a comment about mind-expanding substances.

[jesse.in.mb]

Do you want something about the stars jizzing into your soul like the Big Bang on a meth bender, or no?

[commodious spittoon]

It's pretty much every overnight thread since last summer, isn't it?

[jesse.in.mb]

Yeah. I think it really kicked off in the ol' Independents threads.

[Rhywun]

That show would drive anyone to do massive amounts of hallucinogens.

[Free Society]

Better hurry up and order, there's only two left in stock. And order before 3pm to ensure that it arrives before Valentines Day.

[Irish ?s ESB]

When you have 55 gallons of lube every day is Valentine's day.

[Crusty Juggler]

And you're the classy commenter.

[Irish ?s ESB]

ENB said 'classIER.' By comparison to you degenerates, I am. It's just by comparison to normies that I seem a bit off.

[kbolino]

I hope you mean that they're in your wheelhouse. Otherwise... how do you breathe?

[jesse.in.mb]

Bah, I reworded something in there and failed to reword the rest accordingly.

MY KINGDOM FOR AN EDIT BUTTON

[Florida Man]

MY KINGDOM FOR AN EDIT BUTTON

I want an edit button as much as the next man, but I doubt the area next to a dumpster behind a porno theater is gonna pay for it.

[jesse.in.mb]

That's hurtful! It's a well furnished and spacious area next to a dumpster behind a porno theatre (it's a classy enough joint to get the Brit spelling). It gets TONS of natural light and barely smells like dead hooker.

[Florida Man]

Fine, fapping theatre.

[Heroic Mulatto]

The guy who made Cards Against Humanity has sent those fellows in an Oregon bird watching hut a 55 gallon drum of water-based personal lubricant to go with the dildos people have sent them.

Quelle dr?le!

Remember folks, 8th Grade locker room homophobia is perfectly halal when in the service of smug Progressive browbeating.

[commodious spittoon]

I think homophobia is generally halal regardless.

[Irish ?s ESB]

I don't know why giving someone free sex toys and lubricant is somehow supposed to be insulting to them.

[commodious spittoon]

I doubt they intended it as a kindhearted gesture.

[Irish ?s ESB]

That's the point though - everyone likes sex toys and lubricant and here they are behaving like this is somehow offensive.

[commodious spittoon]

Oh, I see what you mean. Sorry, I'm avoiding writing a paper for a dumb intercession course I took, and it's really distracting me from my procrastination.

[jesse.in.mb]

To be fair, their youtube reaction video to getting "bag of dicks" gummy candy pretty much guaranteed they were going to get more of the same.

[commodious spittoon]

I don't go in for sugary much these days, but gummy anything is going in my mouth. I don't care what shape it's in.

[jesse.in.mb]

He said as he licked the sugar off of a sour peach gummy butthole ring.

[commodious spittoon]

Once, years and years ago, driving down from a job site with my dad (the contactor) and a few coworkers, we stopped at a gas station for drinks. He picked up a bag of sour peach gummy rings. Ten miles back on the road the rest of us are staring at him while, in a daze, he's performing a bizarre form of cunnilingus (candylingus?) on one of those things. It took him about twenty seconds to realize everyone had fallen silent.

[mad.casual]

To be fair, their youtube reaction video to getting "bag of dicks" gummy candy pretty much guaranteed they were going to get more of the same.

Assuming the 'bag of dicks' hatemail didn't contain actual threats of violence, I agree. If not for the anti-bullying movement, these people would've gotten a proper public high school education and learned that indignant and melodramatic responses to mockery and shaming only encourage more of the same.

[Crusty Juggler]

just visit the one-stop popcorn, hotdog, and sex-toy cart downtown

What is this, Spain in the 30s?

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Gary Johnson, you've just found your running mate.

[Fist of Etiquette]

And what happens when the wieners get mixed up with the marital aids. That's right, someone chokes on a dong. Or worse, someone gets relish and onion in her cooch.

[Citizen X]

Some vendors charge extra for that. I, uh, heard.

[Stretchy]

"...did not have the proper paperwork to be selling food and sex toys. "

Does this mean there is proper paperwork to be selling food and sex toys? Is this a single form or multiple forms? Is a background check necessary to be selling food and sex toys? Is there an endorsement on your drivers license that indicates, "This person is hereby authorized by the city of Evansville, Indiana to be selling food and sex toys."

[Stretchy]

Now I'm really curious. Do you need to have a special license to sell other non-food items from a food-cart? If he were selling hot dogs and snow shovels, would he need a license to be selling food and snow shovels? If so, what other items, or classes of items, are you not allowed to be selling with food? How about tube socks? Sexy lingerie? Bunsen burners? Lumber? Or, is the idea of being selling food and sex toys so beyond the norm that it's just being selling food and sex toys that requires a special license.

[Robert]

"The nature of the goods, wares, merchandise, or services for which orders are to be solicited"

So he put in paperwork for certain things, then extended his line to include other things.

[Jerryskids]

To be fair, the city does have a role to play in safe-guarding the health and safety of the taxpayers and part of that is maintaining an orderly record of who all is selling what where. If they didn't keep regular order, hell, you could have stupid things like people selling lighters and matches at the same place they sell gasoline, jugs of milk in the same place they sell jugs of bleach, liquor and beer in places you would have to drive to to get, cats in the same place they sell mice, who knows what? Better just to keep the stuff that goes in one end away from the stuff that goes in the other. You know how annoying it is getting a popcorn hull stuck between your teeth? Imagine getting Steely Dan stuck in there.

[Stretchy]

Is there a law that forces you to put food in one end and sex toys in the other?

[Spartacus]

Well, if you're selling hot dogs and sex toys, it is important not to get those accidentally mixed up. Getting them intentionally mixed up, on the other hand, is perfectly ok. In fact, you could argue that one category includes the other.

[commodious spittoon]

Meg [holding package of hot dogs]: I'm gonna pretend you're the New York Knicks.

[R C Dean]

To be fair, the city does have a role to play in safe-guarding the health and safety of the taxpayers

Sure.

and part of that is maintaining an orderly record of who all is selling what where.

You lost me there.

[Notorious UGCC]

Wasn't he being sarcastic?

[Florida Man]

That doesn't sound like Jerry. Now the Jerry I know took me to merry Christmas, which is a strip club, merry XXX-mas.

[R C Dean]

Probably so. Stupid cheap knock-off sarc-o-meter.

[CZmacure]

Oh, a *SARCASM* detector? That's a *REAL* useful invention!

[Evan from Evansville]

I have never been so relevant in all of my life. And everyone is already gone.

*Cough*

Excuse me, I have something in my eye!

*Runs away sobbing*

[Gozer the Gozerian]

I live there too...

We can share the moment.

[Vampire]

"did not have the proper paperwork to be selling food and sex toys. "

OMG!!! Individuals choosing to voluntarily patronize a place without the proper "paperwork" is just terrible!!!! What if other people decided to open up a business without the state's permission!!???