To thing the icecream man is up to something?

[LigPatin]

It's January. It's 4c and it's raining.
Surely no one is buying enough icecream to make it worthwhile?
Yet the van is still slogging on, Yankeedoodling his way up and down the street.
We live in a village, there's no events nearby.

I thought the same thing. Pitch black outside and along he comes. Parks up, no one comes out. Maybe he should consider a career change?

The ice cream war family are buried in the same cemetery as some of my family. It's a heartbreaking gravestone. So many of them!

However, I genuinely thought it didn't happen anymore. My ice cream van doesn't sell drugs. He sells loads of other stuff though, not just ice cream.

So is it just icecream vans, or do kebab vans deal as well?

but don't know how to report and prove it.

You report it by either calling Crimestoppers UK or your nearest police station.

You prove it by going undercover and carrying out a mystery shopper exercise. Ask the ice cream man for half an ounce of snow or an eighth of weed, or whatever the local terms are, and make sure you are wearing a hidden camera with sound to record it all.

My ice cream man is a teeny tiny Chinese lady. Now I'm wondering what else she has to offer 🤔

I keep saying to DP i wonder if the ice cream man is a dealer or somthing, every single night he comes onto our street,

I get it in the summer, its summer but this time of year? It makes no sense

I am surprised reading some sell things like cigs etc, i didnt know that

Well you learn something new everyday on MN. And there was me thinking the drug market was run by city gangs who traffic children around the countryside to sell them in a trap house.

Honestly you haven't wondered how they make a living selling only ice cream???

Isn't the whippy stuff mainly just air and sugar? I can't imagine the basic ingredients cost more than a few pennies - add a cheap cone and sell it for £2.50-£3? Long lines of children waiting in the park. Yes, they have the van costs too, but even so.

Yeah, 11.15AM every day, the son of our downstairs drug-dealing neighbour is sent to the regular ice-cream van to hand over his Dad's takings. He's the only "customer". He's 5. :-(

@eBooksAreBooksThat’s terrible - have you alerted social services and the police?

Our ice cream man used to sell pirated VHS tapes, mostly porn. But I'm guessing there's not much market for that anymore.

I’m really shocked at this, I honestly thought ice cream vans only sold ice creams!

Yeah when you hear greensleeves at 9pm or on a miserable winter day it's deffo not a Mr Whippy he's selling...

My one was also a drug dealer.

I mean, perfect cover, but since so many of us had the same experience growing up, you'd think the police would be on to them.

I means there's hiding in plain sight and... advertising!

I think we should all attempt to buy drugs from Mr. Whippy and report our findings back here.

Glasgow ice-cream wars

I was about to mention that

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars

since so many of us had the same experience growing up, you'd think the police would be on to them

You didn't though. So far, no one has claimed to have bought drugs from the type of ice-cream van that goes around the streets with music playing (as opposed to a stationary van at a festival etc). Single ciggies and knocked-off DVDs sold from ice-cream vans, I can believe. Selling drugs from them, especially in the era of mobile phones, makes no sense.

I mean... I'd buy an icecream in January. It still tasted fucking nice

@XXcstatic "used to" in my case is well before mobile phones.

And I really did buy weed from him.

@46hidinginthenightgarden

We have just got back form our local icecream farm and it was packed full of people queuing for icecream

Yummy Yorkshire by any chance?