SCREAMING MIMI'S WINDOW SMASHED...

Plenty of action on this Thursday afternoon.  Unfortunately it was not the kind that folks at Screaming Mimi's were looking for...

Moments after the car smashed into the store.

 It started like this: apparently there was an accident and one of the car involved was sitting sideways, blocking the street in from of the ice cream shop.  The flatbed truck finally came to take it away but something happen in the process to get it loaded on the bed.  Seems it broke loose and smashed into the garbage can we all know so well.

How many times have you seen people occupy those tables?

That garbage can shattered the window closest to Petaluma Ave and glass rained down inside the store.  It boggles the mind what kind of injuries were avoided, but only a few cuts on a woman's toe seem to be the only injury from the incident.  She was quite shaken as well as you can imagine.

Fire Chief Bill Braga confers with officials at the scene.

We did get our ice cream and then were asked to leave by a member of our terrific Police force.  I got the Maker's Mark in a sugar cone, but if we were a minute earlier…