To want the ice cream van to stop his bloody chimes and fuck off?

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We live in a really quiet area, some children but not many. I have no problem with my DD having an ice cream every day if she wants one.
The ice cream van circles, it seems like I hear the them to Barney the dinosaur every 8 or 9 minutes.

actually there is one outside the park not far from the school gates but he's never made a sound.

That's the thing, he doesn't need to have barney the fucking dinosaur at full volume. He is bright pink and most people don't have their curtains closed.
There is one outside her school too. It sits there silently raking the cash in.

I was once stalked by the ice cream van!

I had been to the baby clinic with DS who as a few months old, and had my nephew with me who was 9 at the time.

I think it had been outside the school for a bit before that. Anyway, as we were walking down the road, the only people actually on the path as far as the eye could see, and the fecker pulled up right beside us, turned on his music, and woke up sleeping ds! I glared at him and carried on walking, about 50 yards down the road, he does the same thing, we ignore it, and another 50 or so yards down the road he does the same thing, pulls up right by us, and whacks the music on full blast suddenly.....Ds was screaming by this point. He got a bit of an earful off me I have to say!

Yanbu. Drives me mad too. Ours whizzes up the road - talk about 'mind that child'!
Anyone seen That Peter Kay Thing episode where he plays an ice cream van man? So funny.

Love this thread.

YANBU

Our ice cream van drives me crazy. He comes down our road twice in the summer holidays!!

Last year when we were buying an ice cream he said to me you won't see me for three weeks I am off to America tomorrow - really I said. I know who had f paid for your holiday as well! Of course I did not say that bit out loud but my how I wanted to!!

YADNBU and I'm so glad it isn't just me. Everyday during school holidays and weekends the van stops at the bottom of my drive resulting in lines of children on my drive. I have asked him several times to stop and perhaps change his stopping place regularly but he was rude and told me that he could stop where he liked.

YANBU

Ours comes round between 5-7 every night and drives ds (2) nuts. Caught DS climbing on the windowsill today, heading for the open window.

Wouldn't mind if Ice-Cream man was a proper one, like I used to have, who stood there patiently while you stared and stared at teh vast choice. But he's not; he's a miserable bastard who appears to hate kids.

we had an issue with an ice cream van turning up and parking right outside the school gates at home time!

the pta then set up a stall in the school gournds selling cheap little ice lollies (multi packs from supermarket) so he was priced out and it made money for the school!

I remember once when I was a kid buying an ice cream from the van. As I bent to pick my bike up I lost the ice cream off the cone. I looked the guy hopefully and he just shrugged his shoulders. Bastard

Fred West drove an ice cream van when he lived in Glasgow.

There is actually a code of practice on noise from ice cream van chimes!

This is a summary:

It is an offence to sound your chimes before 12.00 noon or
after 7.00 pm. It is also an offence to sound your chimes in
such a way as to give reasonable cause for annoyance. A
code of practice approved by the Government gives
guidance on methods of minimising annoyance caused by
your chimes. The main points of the code of practice are:

Do not sound chimes

1. for longer than 4 seconds at a time;
2. more often than once every 3 minutes;
3. when the vehicle is stationary;
4. except on approach to a selling point;
5. when in sight of another vehicle which is trading;
6. when within 50 metres of schools (during school hours),

hospitals, and places of worship (on Sundays and other recognised day of worship);

1. more often than once every 2 hours in the same length

of street;

1. louder than 80 dB(A) at 7.5 metres;*
2. as loudly in quiet areas or narrow streets as elsewhere.

the full version can be found here

If they are not following it, then you could try complaining to the Environmental health dept of your local Council.

MadBanners was it one of these?

Music for seven ice cream vans

I always get annoyed because the bloody icecream van always turns up just before 5pm as I'm getting dinner ready. I'm not going to buy an icecream if I want my child to eat some dinner.

On another note, when I was a child, the icecream van would sell single cigarettes to kids . I was only little at the time but it was common knowledge that he'd sell them to the older kids.

Thanks so much for that, busywheels!

There is an extremely loud icecream van that goes up and down our little streets and chimes underneath ds's window between 8-8.30 when I'm either trying to get him to sleep or he's already in bed. I didn't know they weren't allowed after 7...

Since ours has been twice today already, those are excellent things to know busywheels.
I'll take some notes about frequency and length of his chimes then phone our EH dept.

I spoke to the EH people today. I am not the only one who has complained, but they've never caught him in the act so to speak.
I offered my house as a stakeout. The woman said she'd consider it. I think she was pulling my leg. I was serious.

I have been invited to report back to EH about him. His chimes are yankee doodle dandy not Barney the dinosaur.
I am now properly a nosy neighbour.

What boring lives you must lead if an ice cream van is such a problem if you don't won't to buy one then don't not hard say no to your children

I'm horrified to hear how people see an ICECREAM van has so bad firstly the job is extremely hard work and everyone isn't the same al jobs involve making money that's why people go work after a long illness I never thought I could work again but were given a chance to work on ICECREAM van many times I have thought of giving up long hours hard work I have been broke down so no wages big repair bills hours of cleaning when everyone else finnished in bed abuse from people that's made me cry I have been robbed threatened alsorts then there s happy times with nice people please just give people a chance life's hard enough

Ours plays Greensleeves at full belt. He must have a massive amp in there to blast it out like he does, full distortion.

Aint he's just telling you he's got no icecream. If they're playing Greensleeves, it means they've run out of ice-cream. If they're playing the American national anthem then you're OK to do the "must have ice-cream dance"

the ice cream man at home played greensleeves, but the one near my soft touch aunty played the US anthem, for some bloody obscure reason I still haven't figured out to this day

I really like them. Never met anybody who doesn't find them irritating though. I might start ICVAA (Ice Cream Van Appreciators Anonymous).

What a boring life you must lead, going around the internet and reviving threads from more than three years ago

Yours is much more exciting Prelude, you get to tell people off for overlooking a date .

I was talking to tc9 back there who was telling us off for discussing it. But you are right, it's thrilling...