AIBU ice cream truck

[Hesalwaysplayinggolf]

So we live on a quiet residential road.
My daughter goes to bed at 7pm every night.
3-4 nights a week an ice cream van drives and parks down our road blaring his ice cream truck music. This varies in timing but can be as late as 8pm. Usually between 7-8pm.
This wakes my daughter every time and she takes ages to resettle. She’s genuinely scared.

AIBU to talk to the ice cream man about this?
My husband thinks I’m ridiculous. I think it’s a mickey take to be blaring loud music at 8pm.

We have her window closed and white noise in her room but it still wakes her. I know I could put her to bed once he’s been but he doesn’t come every night so it’s hard to know and she is tired by 7pm.

Fir example tonight dd went to bed at 7pm, I sat down to eat at 7.45 and by 7.50pm he had woken her up. Just got her back down 30mins later.

YABU - Put up with it he’s just earning his living
YANBU - This would annoy me too

I'd be up for the ice cold wine and snacks van especially late night;if I could get a 99 with that;that would be perfection.

DD grew up in a less well to do part of town. He said that late night ice cream vans didn’t just sell ice cream….

DD grew up in a less well to do part of town. He said that late night ice cream vans didn’t just sell ice cream….

Came on here to say this! Think they have to be quiet after 7pm, definitely say something if it's disturbing you

You aren’t being unreasonable if you are in the UK. It’s an offence for the chimes to sound after 7pm. Sure they may try tactics such as free ice cream to make the parents like them, or to groom the children into wanting to go to them, but the law is simple. No chimes before 12pm and non after 7pm.

so if you hear them just politely ask them to stop or that you will report them

Under section 62 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (CoPA) it is an offence to operate or permit the operation of any loudspeaker of the ‘ice-cream van chimes’ type in a street unless all the following conditions are complied with: a. the loudspeaker is operated only between the hours of noon and 7 pm on the same day; b. the loudspeaker is fixed to a vehicle which is being used for the conveyance of a perishable commodity for human consumption; c. the loudspeaker is operated solely for informing members of the public (otherwise than by means of words) that the commodity is on sale from the vehicle; d. the loudspeaker is so operated as not to give reasonable cause for annoyance to persons in the vicinity. 2.2 Under section 79(1)(ga) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

Then, after 9, it probably changes to delivering marching powder round suburbia!

Zombie