AIBU to think about reporting Ice cream van

[Lancashiregal10]

Can I just say I have nothing against them as a whole
But one has started coming around our estate every night between 9pm and 9.30pm and every night it's wakes up 10 month old DS
The chime is so loud and goes on for ages. My husband timed that the van was chiming for half an hour on our estate tonight (not all together 30 second bursts.
I really don't want to be petty but DS is then unsettled all night. Also I miss sleep I have seizures due to epilepsy an I had to have the day off work today. I only went back to work three weeks ago.
Also realise parents of babies have a lack of sleep but knowing what triggers my epilepsy we worked so hard to get DS into a routine while I was on Maternity leave and it seemed to have worked. Until now.
I have looked and after 7pm they are not allowed to sound the chimes by law
Who wants sodding ice cream at that time anyway

Amazed this all survives in the era of internet and pay as you go mobiles. In the 80s I guess this was the most efficient and anonymous system. Now, why bother with all that?

What's a 'bag of lemon' then Worra. worried

Internet and mobile phones are not private though.

who knew smack heads had such a fine sense of direction. This made me

I didn't know the shoes had any significance. I am shocked (and does anyone know how they get them over the line?)

Ooh there are shoes ganging in the street next to mine! Isn't it a bit of a sign for the police too though?

Plus internet and mobile phones are traceable. It's probably harder to pinpoint who bought the red fireworks. (I'm assuming they're coloured and not just bangers but I have no idea!)

Every day on MN is an education!

I'm loving the randomness of the single firework. I've heard groups of fireworks going off at unexpected times but not a single one. Now every time I hear one or see a ice cream van I'm going to be suspicious

I am sat here like at this thread.

HOW did I not know this about ice cream vans?

Is the OP having a laugh and everyone going along with it? I'm baffled. Has there been a big shipment these past few days? We never had a nice cream van round this place till recently. (V nice and respectable area.)

What about the Rotary "Santa" sleigh at Xmas?

How do you get shoes off a telephone line, once you have moved on? Surely they mean that "drugs have been available to purchase here in the last few months, but now no one can get them down".

SueD maybe the inability to get the shoes down means those involved are committed to a life of drug dealing . Well, at least, until someone with a large ladder or cherry picker comes along.

We had a drug selling ice cream man once.

My grandad was an ice cream man for over 50 years,not drugs though. I thought they were not allowed to sell cigs anymore (legally anyway)

Am loving the idea that th Internet and PAYG phones aren't private enough. I think this is a cunning police plan. They have manage to persuade drug dealers that they are so much more inconspicuous if they drive around in a massive white van with a curly turd ice cream on the roof belting out music, and then let off a firework. I guess after a few years of cannabis they will believe anything

Always wondered about the shoes, thought it was passed up teens.

We had empty carrier bags hanging out of the windows of local flats when the women who lived there were open for buisness

I always wondered why the public loo near where ?I lived had blue lighting... until I was informed it was to stop people shooting up in there. Apparently you can't see your veins so well in blue light... Never occurred to me that such goings on went on...

We had a pair of shoes over the wire locally too... same friend infomred me of the meaning of that...

70 in our previous house we used to hear the single firework alert too. Followed immediately by the man across the road dashing out of the house and riding off on his pushbike, every single time.

I thought the meaning of a single firework in the middle of the day was well known.

I've never heard of the shoes on the telephone wire sign though.

Someone did a study into the shoe thing...worldwide. Seems it began in LA (might have been NY) and it was related to drug deaths. They were originally the shoes of the deceased and they stay there for generations in some cases. Fellow gang members can look up and remember them fondly by their Nike Airs.

Perhaps it was to stop other people stealing the shoes?

I suspect it was imitated and now means different things in different areas.

Yes mrswinnibago I always thought it was to do with drug deaths.

Oakmaiden - out dishwasher as the same blue lighting. No idea why.

We have one single firework too. I'm in East Yorkshire. They also have it in the West Yorkshire town my mum lives in.