Swedish ice-cream truck to be silenced, melody to be replaced by text message

[The Straight Story]

Swedish ice-cream truck to be silenced


The distinctive jingle of an ice-cream truck is to be a thing of the past in a southern Swedish suburb after residents complained with the melody set to be replaced by a text message.

Residents living on a street in Eslöv filed a complaint about the noise of the truck to supplier Engelholm ice-cream demanding that they turn down the sound or switch it off completely.

"I've spoken with the business owner who drives the truck and he said they make it a bit louder in the winter in order to be heard properly because people are sitting inside," said Carl Gustaf Gudmundsson, president of Engelholm ice-cream to local newspaper Skånskan.

He added that the ice-cream truck only visited the neighbourhood once a month but were urged to act after a home owner contacted the local municipality.

http://www.thelocal.se/20131231/swedish-ice-cream-truck-to-be-silenced

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. They eat ice cream from a truck in the Winter?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Maybe its bring a little bit of light in their day when they need it.

In January Stockholm only gets 6 hours of daylight and Kiruna gets sweet fuck all - 24 hours of night.

[Cha]

3. That's what I was thinking! In Sweden! Brrr

[Historic NY]

5. I just got brain freeze.

[surrealAmerican]

9. That was my reaction too.

Those Swedes are hard core.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

4. There's an ice-cream truck in my suburb that plays "I Saw Three Ships" and I'm bloody sick of it

This is, of course, a Christmas song, completely inappropriate for the summer.

In case you don't know it

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Around here, they use "Turkey in the Straw"

Royally screwed up my "TurkeySicle" franchise.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

7. They used to use Turkey in the Straw, and for a couple of years

Scot Joplin's The Entertainer

[IDemo]

10. Try theme song from "The Sting"

Repeated hundreds of times over the course of a summer.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x119jup_the-sting-theme-song-scott-joplin-s-the-entertainer-by-jake-d_music

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

11. The theme song from "The Sting" IS Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"

As the name of your link points out.

[IDemo]

13. OK

and irritating as hell blasting from the tinny speaker of an ice cream truck once, let alone multiple times daily.

[Shankapotomus]

8. Obviously, a silent ice cream truck

is not going to work.

Solution: an app that alerts you when the truck is in your area.

[panader0]

12. I gotta say--Driving one of those trucks,

and listening to ANY song over and over would drive me over the edge.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. I suspect you would tune it out.

I used to work in the Chicago Loop, in an office with a window overlooking the El tracks, about two floors about the tracks. In less than a day, I no longer heard the trains, even though they were quite noisy.

[IDemo]

15. I have this mental image

of an ice cream truck driver coming home after a long day, opening a cold beer, putting on the headphones and cranking up "It's a Small World" on the stereo.

[treestar]

17. you made me laugh!

[dembotoz]

16. some of my fondest memories are off hearing the ice cream truck off in a distance and buying

some treats for my kids when it would show up.

i was always floored at how those damn boys could hear a truck way off in the distance but seemed unable to hear me
ask them to clean the litter boxes....
must have something to do with the tune the trucks play....