Ice Cream Van regulations
Online you can find the official regulations governing "Noise from Ice-Cream Van Chimes Etc. in England." One part that stood out for me:
Once the summer heat sets in here in Phoenix, the ice cream truck drivers are out in force, and they sure don't limit their music to "once only on the approach to each stopping place." They play the jingle constantly. You can hear it repeating endlessly as the van circles around the neighborhood.
Incidentally, while growing up I thought ice cream trucks were referred to generically as the "Good Humor Man" (whether or not they happened to be selling Good Humor ice cream). Only recently did I realize that many people don't refer to the trucks by that name.
6.1. The chimes should be played once only on the approach to each stopping place (or
‘selling point’), only once when the van is stationary, and never at intervals of less
than 2 minutes.
6.2. The chimes should not be played more often than once every 2 hours in a particular
length of street.
‘selling point’), only once when the van is stationary, and never at intervals of less
than 2 minutes.
6.2. The chimes should not be played more often than once every 2 hours in a particular
length of street.
Once the summer heat sets in here in Phoenix, the ice cream truck drivers are out in force, and they sure don't limit their music to "once only on the approach to each stopping place." They play the jingle constantly. You can hear it repeating endlessly as the van circles around the neighborhood.
Incidentally, while growing up I thought ice cream trucks were referred to generically as the "Good Humor Man" (whether or not they happened to be selling Good Humor ice cream). Only recently did I realize that many people don't refer to the trucks by that name.
Comments
Here, they play constantly, even when going down the interstate at seventy-five!
Please understand, I'm not a conspiracy theorist of any water, but I simply can't help thinking that making drivers listen to the same tune, over and over, and over, and over . . . ten hours a day . . . well it just has to be some sort of mind control experiment. Right? And it has to be more than just turning them into zombies; that would only take a couple of days and these experiments run all summer long, in every city in America, in your neighborhood . . .
Please understand, I'm not a conspiracy theorist of any water, but I simply can't help thinking that making drivers listen to the same tune, over and over, and over, and over . . . ten hours a day . . . well it just has to be some sort of mind control experiment. Right? And it has to be more than just turning them into zombies; that would only take a couple of days and these experiments run all summer long, in every city in America, in your neighborhood . . .
Posted by Phideaux on 05/10/25 at 11:01 PM
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