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Long Beach Eyes Crackdown On Ice Cream Truck ‘Nuisance’
CBSLA.com ^ | July 4, 2013 8:58 AM

Posted on 07/04/2013 2:40:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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21 posted on 07/04/2013 3:44:52 PM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
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To: unixfox

I don’t know about where you live, but in my neighborhood in Anaheim,CA. we have a vendor who drives around in a VERY noisy diesel catering truck sell a variety of ice cream including soft serve. He plays the music VERY loud and plays it non stop when he is parked across the street from me. Now I applaud someone working to have the music turned off while stopped and regulating the volume.

I miss the days of the Good Humor Man that only rang a bell, and only when he was moving.


22 posted on 07/04/2013 3:54:46 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Long Beach Eyes Crackdown On Police car, Ambulance and Fire Truck ‘Nuisances’
CBSLA.com ^ | July 4, 2013 8:58 AM

Posted on Thursday, July 04, 2013 5:40:09 PM by Obewakanobey

LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — The city service vehicles could be silenced once the fireworks are over this Fourth of July if one Long Beach city official has his way.

Councilman Deepew Andrews is expected to introduce a plan at next week’s Long Beach City Council meeting to regulate the noise of local Police cars, Ambulances and Fire Trucks .


23 posted on 07/04/2013 4:11:48 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: cripplecreek
I just pray that my dogs never figure out that there’s ice cream in those trucks.
My daughter and son-inlaw told their kids they were music trucks so they wouldn't know to ask for ice cream.
24 posted on 07/04/2013 4:20:49 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: knarf

When I was young the good humor man had a truck that had a rack of bells outside over the windshield that he rang as he slowly drove through the neighborhood. Certainly not aversive. He would park and ring them until customers started lining up.

Much better than amplified music


25 posted on 07/04/2013 4:20:55 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: BenLurkin

I can’t believe none of you slackers have posted this yet.

Ice Cream Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RKWJD5ops


26 posted on 07/04/2013 4:23:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: unixfox

We lived in Los Angeles years ago when it was just beginning to be annexed to Mexico. In our very nice area, ice cream trucks started showing up at all hours of the night. And fruit trucks. It was horrible. Apparently people from Mexico had different ideas of when to sleep...or perhaps they just didn’t have jobs. But those of us who had 9 - 5’s really suffered from sleep loss.

And then my daughter complained about the noise. And then two nights later, her new car was stolen, found by police a few days later at the bottom of a hill off Mullholland Drive, a total wreck.....Who would do a thing like that?

Gee, I miss Southern California.


27 posted on 07/04/2013 4:31:07 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: BenLurkin
It's an under 20 thing.

And I'm glad I'm still under 20 - well, for at least 39 years.

My complaint is that the music is too low - I've got to hustle when I hear it or it will drive on by.

28 posted on 07/04/2013 4:48:00 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: flaglady47

See my post # 28. Man, it only comes through once and I better be listening close. My daughter keeps $1.25 just inside the garage door so she doesn’t have to waste time tracking down money.


29 posted on 07/04/2013 4:52:25 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: flaglady47

Any time we heard the ice cream truck drive by, my wife and I would say that the “Music Man” is driving by. Wasn’t that nice of him to share that music with us?
Once our kids hit 9 or 10 and they had talked with their friends, they were a bit perturbed that they had unknowingly missed out on years of ice cream.


30 posted on 07/04/2013 7:00:48 PM PDT by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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To: Drew68
In England ice cream trucks play "Greensleeves".

What a depressing melody.

31 posted on 07/04/2013 7:25:14 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: EBH

Most of the ice cream trucks in So Cal and most of the rest of California are run by third world immigrants. They have no use for laws.....of any kind.


32 posted on 07/04/2013 7:39:38 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Imnidiot

That gave me a chuckle. Thanks for sharing.


33 posted on 07/05/2013 7:18:53 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: flaglady47
Maybe it’s different now.

You may have missed this in the original posting (the part quoted above):

According to Andrews, “residents’ peace and quiet is disrupted by a constant procession of trucks playing various songs at high volume levels” and “can be heard throughout the day and into the evening hours for several blocks.”

That would mean that after one drives off and my nightshift-workin' a** starts to drift off to sleep, another arrives...


34 posted on 07/05/2013 8:34:23 AM PDT by Peet (Come back with a warrant.)
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