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

I haven't RTFT but I didn't realise ice cream vans did this kind of thing?! I thought that they were just ice cream vans that sold ice cream! Never seen them at night!

I've never seen them out at night but I was aware there were vans that sold rather more than a Mr Whippy.

We dont have ice cream vans in my current area (busy main road not many houses).

Never heard a firework in the day ever.

I once asked for a 69 instead of a 99 tho at the tender age of about 17.

I would love a mr whippy right now (no drug related garnishes though). I have some sort of paranoia going on here that when I go to the park later and ask for a flake the ice cream dude might give me a wink.

What would one do?

OMG now it all makes sense. When I was at uni and studying all night there was an ice cream van right in front of my residence hall. I couldn't see it because my room was on the opposite side of the building but I could hear it every single night/morning around 4am for a week. It was creepy and scary, you only hear silence for hours and than bang all of a sudden this chime starts! Like in a horror movie before something really bad and bloody happens. First night I taught I was hallucinating due to sleep deprivation, but then the same happened next night. Now I know.

Ok, my colleague is an ice cream man on the side (married to an italian ice cream lady).

Where we are (Essex) he says technically they have can't chime after 8 but the council actually have to catch them in the act twice before any action would be taken.

Apparently it's quite normal especially this time of year to take the piss and chime at 9.30!

Isn't it a bit of a thing now to have an ice cream can at wedding receptions?

Just saying.

This has been an education.

[sheltered life]

canthisonebeused yes I did read the thread and get that it is jokey. I am simply asking if the op was making a spoof thread or was actually seriously going to report an ice cream van which is massively ridiculous, precious and bloody bonkers and a bit sad.

Perhaps we'll cancel the ice cream van for tha PTA fete. Or request a bigger share of the proceeds, what do you think?

I don't think our local ice cream man does any exciting sidelines. DS1 tells me that if you want drugs, you simply go round the back of the shop and ask.

Erm. Not if it is playing its fecking annoying jingle outside the permitted hours. And clearly not to entice small children to purchase its innocent dairy delights.

But even saying permitted hours in the same sentence as ice cream van is funny. It's a bloody ice cream van, get a life. If someone posted this thread in all seriousness without realising how utterly ridiculous they sound then they need help. Or a orange sparkle to unclench their entitled limbs

Had no idea about this and I'm a police officer! Are you lot really serious? Never in my 13 years service have I heard anything like this.

Had no idea about this and I'm a police officer! Are you lot really serious? Never in my 13 years service have I heard anything like this.

Maybe that's why it works!

Drug dealer around here just act like normal people and make some cash on the side. You wouldn't know them from looking at them unless someone introduced you.

Rupert grint has bought an ice cream van.

I've never heard of this! Just asked DH and he knows about both the ice cream vans and the fireworks. Now I'm wondering what else there is like this that I don't know about!

Fluffysheep, depends where you work. Ask around.

DH knew about this too. He's never mentioned it in 20 years!

It's the firework in this part of Yorkshire, though no doubt there's the odd ice cream van too, I'm just not in a busy enough part of the city to hear it.