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

When I was younger and in last years of school there was one Ice cream van with an American theme on the outside. He sold ice cream drinks sweets and crisps. He also packed cones with drugs, put ice cream on top and sold them too to anyone who'd asked/ordered.

Well, you learn something new every day.

We have a frozen yogurt van round here. Wonder if they sell poncey pot, the sort that doesn't quite hit the spot...

Ice cream wars? Drugs? Shooting off fireworks as a homing beacon?

This is a whole new world of icecream vans I never knew about.

But of course lets not forget some ice cream men are just that selling ice cream, sweets and crisps they're not all a front for selling drugs despite how this thread appears

I have never been able to work out how they get the shoes up there.
Just tie the laces together and toss. It can take a few tries for them to stick.
I'm told.

When I was a teenager we had a pair hanging up in our neighbourhood for a while, but that was because one of the 11 year old twins down the block thought it would be a funny thing to do with his brother's new shoes. Neither twin 2 nor their mother was terribly impressed. The laces rot eventually in about the time it takes for an 11 year old boy to grow out of new shoes apparently.

I used to live adjacent to a council estate and we often used to comment on the fireworks.

How naive we were!

Im in Grimsby, we have he single firework too.

So what does it mean if your local ice cream van plays the theme from the godfather? Dh thinks drugs and weapons. Seeing as he only comes round in the afternoons I think ice creams! Or am I being ridiculously naive?

At sixth form I used to buy tobacco from the man in the fish van who delivered to the pub I hung out in.

Didn't know about dodgy ice cream vans, shoes or fireworks though!

We don't get dodgy ice cream trucks round here, but we do have a dodgy phone box at the end of our road!
Because why would two young men sit in a car, next to the phone box playing on their mobile phones for a couple of hours a night? And answer the phone when it rings?

We used to have one that would come as late as 11pm! Didn't bother me at the time cos I had no DC but if my DD heard one that late she'd be up asking for one!

Drugs in the cone with ice cream on top? That wouldn't work, your drugs would get all sticky and ruined with ice cream.

SueDNim you must be hardcore, your dishwasher is trying to tell you something.

Don't shoot up near the kitchen appliances

Some of you didn't watch Happy Valley then!

What's a 'bag of lemon' then Worra

Exit, it's a type of skunk weed.

You can get lemon, bubble gum, cheese and all sorts of flavours now.

Lemon haze won the cannabis cup 2 years in a row, a few years back.

Is this a jokey thread? Because the title must be surely? Who ever would report an ice cream van? The world doesn't stop because someone had a baby.

Cannabis Cup.

I really am getting too old for this world.

I thought ice-cream vans sold ice cream and skanky colourful drinks. It never occurred to me that they might sell... special things. Are the "special" ones operated by Hilary Briss & Sons?

Do you have an ice cream van, Worra?

OP, I have epilepsy too and I sympathise. YANBU. If you can't get the problem sorted, could you play some white noise in your DS's room to help block out the noise? I use it with my kids and it works a treat.

Also astonished at the ice cream van thing - what a sheltered life I've clearly led!!

Am LOL at the fact that the police apparently know that all of this goes down yet do nothing about it. That seems to be the common assumption about every level of crime in Britain.

What exactly ARE the police doing in this country?

My place of work has an ice cream van call in every sunny Friday. I did wonder why it was so popular - this explains a lot...

Have you not read the thread theodorus?

Do you have an ice cream van, Worra?

No, but I'm starting to think I should

I just asked dd1 about ice cream/fireworks and she said yes everyone knows that. Did I not wonder why one ice cream man chased the other one out of our road last year?
I just thought ice cream was a lucrative business .