Actual NYC sign.
Posted on 07/06/2007 8:34:46 AM PDT by libertarianPA
NEW YORK - Authorities issued more than three dozen summonses — including at least one to an ice cream truck driver — in the first five days of a new noise ordinance, a newspaper reported Friday.
Some 38 citations were issued Sunday alone, according to The New York Times. The report said authorities did not provide a complete tally of summonses issued since the regulations took effect July 1.
Costas "Gus" Vamvakas received a citation while on his rounds in a Mr. Softee truck in Queens on Wednesday. The new rules require the popular ice cream chain to stop playing its signature jingle when trucks are stopped in residential areas.
Vamvakas was "certainly one of the first" ice cream truck drivers cited under the new regulations, city Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Michael Saucier said.
Vamvakas, who was ticketed while stopped in a parking lot at Fort Totten Park, said he was aware of the rule but afraid he would lose business if he shut off the song.
The new noise code governs a variety of sounds ranging from jackhammering to barking dogs to bar music, with standards varying with the type of noise.
grrrr... ice cream trucks make me angry - especially their ‘muzak’. ;-)
Actual NYC sign.
Wait until Bloomberg passes his “No Talking” ordinance.
Bloomberg certainly runs a tight ship, don’t he?
Next will be whistling, and calling your dog.
They busted Mr. Softee ?
What’s even worse is that most New Yorkers just accept this as being in the interest of the common good. They have been gradually softened up to lose all of their freedoms to the nanny state. Where has the “New Yorker” spirit disappeared. The city that never sleeps now has to stay awake in silence.
File this one under YGTBFSM!!!
Is this all that Bloomberg idiot is worried about, some noisy Good Humor trucks?
Give me a freakin’ break
Its hard to hear the violations, with all the police and fire department sirens screaming constantly. Go into the subways and you need hearing protection when the brakes start squealing.
This is a statute that Julie Annie would also love. Gives opportunity to summons virtually anyone, at any time. Maybe the law will be toughened so that the offending assets (boom box, car, etc.) can be confiscated.
ML/NJ
But the cars that have the super speakers and bass don’t have to worry..they are always moving making them a little harder of a tartget than say an Ice cream truck...
Well, you vote fascists into office, and guess what you get?
Hey, maybe Bloomie supports suppressors on firearms.....
I used to live on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn and you have no idea how frustrating it is to have a damn ice cream truck circling the block ALL DAY LONG with that moronic music blaring. I swear, I used to have to restrain myself from going out there with a baseball bat.
No doubt the “call to prayer” blaring from crackly mosk loudspeakers is exempt. You can probabnly hear it now that everyone else has to shut up.
They could cite dozens per hour on any street around Fairbanks, day or night.
The last time I went to New York one of the things that amazed me was the honking of the horns. Coming out of the tunnel it seems the first thing I heard was everybody there honking their horn, I dont think New Yorkers can drive without them. They can ticket 40,000 a day for horn honking.
Well, I guess the Macy’s fireworks celebrations are off, from now on.
In our little part of Florida, the ice cream truck has been playing Christmas carols lately. I’m surprised the ACLU hasn’t set up road blocks or planted IEDs.
Being from NY originally, I have it on good authority that Bloomie will soon institute a dress code. Every Friday evening will be black tie, mandatory. During the week, slacks and jackets for the gents (seer suckers ok during the summer), and Ann Taylor for the ladies.
For those who cannot afford these fashions, city subsidies will be available.....
nanny
Had the same thought -- it probably won't apply to pimp-mobiles that shake the ground with their 3000-watt bass speakers either.
See how fast Al or Jesse would get to the microphones to tar Bloomie as a culturally insensitive 'raciss' if those noise sources were ever targeted ...
Freedom can be so untidy, after all.
I guess, frenetic Fairbanks ice cream men working the two week summer. :)
Once in a while a wild-eyed scraggy man will try the ice-cream truck thing, but they get arrested and charged with all kinds of violations almost immediately. Loud pickup trucks seem to be the badge of entry into adulthood here, both young men and young women.
Yeah, let’s hassle the ice cream guy but hand out clean needles and condoms.
On the other hand I wonder how many inner-city thugs were told to turn down the thumping base in their rides? Or would that be racial profiling?
Ice cream trucks? Good Lord.
My special peeve is leaf blowers. The Mexicans in my area that use them just stand around and blow a small amount of grass clippings or leaves foe hours at a time.Drives me nuts.
Whatever happened to rakes and brooms?
Yeah, silencers would work. That way you wouldn’t even know when you get shot! Brilliant!
No. If NYC want to live this way, they can elect him as often as they like.
However, that will probably be the highest office he'll ever attain {Mayor}.
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