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Park Slope Parents Want Ice Cream Trucks Banned To Avoid Testy Tantrums From Tots

Some Want Trucks To 'Go Somewhere Else,' Others Say Idea Is 'Extreme'

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A boy selects ice cream from a cart in Park Slope. (credit: CBS 2)

A boy selects ice cream from a cart in Park Slope. (credit: CBS 2)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Who doesn’t like the ice cream truck? Apparently some parents in Park Slope.

Dozens of recent comments on a Park Slope parents message blog said ice cream vendors need to leave the area, especially places around the playgrounds and parks, to help avoid afternoon meltdowns and temper tantrums from children craving frozen treats.

“Go somewhere else, go on another corner because…it does make it too tempting for them,” Debbie Markovic said Monday as her lactose-intolerant daughter begged for ice cream.

CBS 2′s Emily Smith found ice cream trucks on nearly every corner, including a Mister Softee truck, several Icee carts and a few frozen yogurt mobiles.

Though a sentiment exists among some to move the ice cream trucks, some frozen treat fanatics said banning a staple like Mister Softee is simply un-American.

“A little extreme, a little treat is a good thing,” one woman said.

“They’re walking down the street and my kid wants everything, every toy they see. Does that mean we should ban every toy store?” another woman said.

A city agency said banning ice cream trucks would have to be done legislatively citywide or statewide. They said to ban the trucks just in Park Slope would be impossible.

One parent jokingly said not until celery trucks go around playing fun music should the community consider banning the ice cream trucks.

Community Board 7 said it gets complaints about noisy music from the ice cream trucks or even safety issues regarding parking. However, an all-out ban for health reasons is unrealistic because the trucks are run by private vendors and parents have the option to say “no.”

Where do you stand on the issue?  Do you think ice cream trucks should be banned in Park Slope?  Share your thoughts below…

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  • http://bellforddirect.wordpress.com James

    These people should not be allowed to mate or reproduce. The kids are doomed to absolute failure, and the parents as clueless as zombies. When they ahve no control over their little darling, it is everyone elses responsibility to step in and save the day. The same batch of idiots that is engrossed with all their electronic gadgetry on board a crowded airliner, while their little darlings are terrorizing the entire cabin and flight crew. Mars is nice this time of year..I say gather all of them up and let them start their own colony up there, so the rest of us may live in peace and in reality………….

    • Old Fart

      My youngest calls them “Breeders.” And it’s NOT complimentary. lol

    • EMC

      Absolutely right on and well said!
      These people think that parenting is
      just a current “must have’, like a Hampton’s rental or a pair of Chanel flats…… then they realized it takes some responsibility and want someone else to deal with day to day issues..
      You can’t return the kids to Bloomingdale’s and demand a credit!.

  • tiredofthebs

    Wait 1 sec…..avoid afternoon meltdowns and temper tantrums from children craving frozen treats…WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!…….Maybe…………..OH YES………I can remember……………….I GREW UP WITH THE GOOD HUMOR TRUCK going down my block………..RUNNING to ask my mom for change to buy a strawberry shortcake or a bomb-pop. NO FIGHTS BETWEEN SNOB PARENTS…..NO ONE GETTING STABBED

    This country is now sooooo screw up you better not even say hello to someone……might be mistaken as a treat. I hope to “the invisible person in the sky that 2012 IS the END or the BEGINNING of the end of this *%&*&%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • godwhatjesuswho

      You got that right my friend. This country has done nothing but smash our freedom ever since the “911″ crap. No wonder the rest of the world hates us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Exclamation point to that!

  • Crsnj

    I wonder what would happen if they started to sell skittles!

    • Dimsum Harry

      Just don’t wear a hoodie.

  • Willy

    Wow I guess the kids are in charge. If you can’t tell your kid no at this age what are you going to do when they get older. Please give them up for adoption so they can have a better chance at life due to the fact you can’t parent.

    • friendofAslan

      Amen

    • osn

      thank you!!

    • robkeysnj

      so true!!

  • bb

    turn the music off

    • AnthonyS

      Take responsibility for raising your children, instead of asking the State to do it !!!! SAY NO .. It won’t hurt their fragile young minds

      • Elliot J. Stamler

        Anthony, you are so right. There are very peculiar people in Park Slope–recently their leftist food coop debated banning all Israeli products because of some of them despising Jews and Israel. If you can’t control your kid’s demands for ice cream, your kids are going to grow up pretty warped. Did this Markovic woman ever hear the word “NO”?

  • poppop4

    The Mayor should build a fence around the slope to keep these morons from infecting the rest of us with their inanity. Maybe these crybabies should stay indoors with their kids, home school them and left everyone else enjoy their lives!!!

  • Nancy

    Parents need to be effective leaders to their children. Go in and buy the ice cream you think it is right for your children or realize the time went Mr Softee comes and leave before he makes his appearance.

  • jj

    What the heck is wrong with these people. We can’t just start banning everything because your kid might have a tantrum. People have a right to make a living. Should we ban bakeries, and candy stores too? Teach your bratty kids that when mom and dad say no its no.

    • jackin4beats

      EXACTLY. Well said.

  • Raymond Leslie

    The ice cream truck is as american as apple pie. Let them eat cake.

  • Katie

    this whole thing is hilarious. are these people for real? whats next? take your lactose intolerant kid to the other side of the street and keep it moving if she can’t eat the ice cream. let these kids live, we should be happy they’re outside playing in or near a park rather than sitting home on facebook.

  • Dante A.

    Besides these jerks aren’t even there parenting their kids. They are at some Yoga class, eating organic hummus and rediscovering things that have been around for 100 years. Stuff that my grandparents brought to this country. All while some “nanny” is bringing up their children. Just tell the nanny to tell the kid no to the ice cream, especially if it doesn’t contain some sort of seaweed….Teach these kids that there are winners and losers, not everyone is a winner or a “participant. Teach them that people are going to reject them and tell them “NO”. Stop raising a bunch of sensitive fragile flowers….Oh BTW, when the ice cream man came along, it marked the start of spring..OHHHhhh and we chased the truck in the street, heaven forbid…

    • Ron Darcy

      Well Said Dante! If the people in Park Slope do not like Brooklyn Rules, Move back to where ever you came from! Probably was no Ice Cream Trucks passing the farm!

  • KJ

    The people in my neighborhood are a complete bunch of a-holes. . . If they don’t like ice cream trucks, they don’t have to buy from them. . . Why the hell does every pretentious jackass have to ruin it for everyone else when they have no concept of personal responsibility and insist on imposing their will on everyone else ? . . These must be the same jackasses pushing Obamacare. . .

    • http://daksden.wordpress.com dakotahgeo

      Watch it, KJ!!! Just because YOU don´t like the ACA doesn´t mean other people don´t. Stick to your ice cream rant!

      • pfanchww

        If the government can force you to buy healthcare, what can they not do? It goes beyond the act, it’s implementing cradle to the grave regulation on your life. But what do a bunch of non-elected judges know??? I mean they weren’t even elected…

        go wikipedia (or better yet open a book) and look up what “a government of limited powers means.”

        • ?????

          Amen. And don’t forget “judicial review”.

      • FMcAvoy

        Yea, only 60-70% of the American public don’t like Obamascare. No big deal. They ought to ban the Kool-Aid truck from YOUR neighborhood.

    • Brendan Quigley

      well said!

    • Brendan Quigley

      well said! and I agree with the last part as well

  • Marcia Phillips Requa

    Shut up and parent. Soon you’d have to be banning supermarkets, all too tempting.

  • Kadie C

    OMFG NO. Your kid wants something and you have to say no?? The horror of it all! Better make sure we remove all the car dealerships before your brats…I mean kids…turn 16.

  • http://bluescat48.wordpress.com bluescat48

    Temper Tantrums? Is that all you have to worry about? Get used to it, it is a part of parenting. If it is not ice cream it is something else. Get over it. The cliché “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, ” applies here, If you can’t cope with temper tantrums, don’t have kids.

    • Old Fart

      OMG! So true. I’ll take a toddler acting up ANYDAY to a teenager’s “mouth.” The WORST is yet to come. Or as the saying goes,

      “Mothers of teenagers know why some animals eat their young.”

  • Deb

    A child needs to know who the boss is. If you say ‘No”, then NO means NO!!! Why ask nice obedient children to be excluded from enjoying a simple treat?? If you cannot deal with your childs melt down, then you have know reason having them in the first place. Parenting 101!!!

    • Good Parent

      Well said

      • Yvette

        Totally agree!!! Why get children in the first place? These morans are taking the child’s freedom away or they don’t know how to tell their kids no.

        • Clancy

          Hey! Don’t dreag the Irish into this brouhaha! ‘Morans’, indeed.

  • Good Parent

    The Wolf and the Lamb, By Jean de La Fontaine
    Translation by Eli Siegel

    The reason of those best able to have their way is always the best:
    We now show how this is true.

    A lamb was quenching its thirst
    In the water of a pure stream.
    A fasting wolf came by, looking for something;
    He was attracted by hunger to this place.
    —What makes you so bold as to meddle with my drinking?
    Said this animal, very angry.
    You will be punished for your boldness.
    —Sir, answered the lamb, let Your Majesty
    Not put himself into a rage;
    But rather, let him consider
    That I am taking a drink of water
    In the stream
    More than twenty steps below him;
    And that, consequently, in no way,
    Am I troubling his supply.
    —You do trouble it, answered the cruel beast.
    And I know you said bad things of me last year.
    —How could I do that when I wasn’t born,
    Answered the lamb; I am still at my mother’s breast.
    —If it wasn’t you, then it was your brother.
    —I haven’t a brother.—It was then someone close to you;
    For you have no sympathy for me,
    You, your shepherds and your dogs.
    I have been told of this.I have to make things even.
    Saying this, into the woods
    The wolf carries the lamb, and then eats him
    Without any other why or wherefore.

    • Max

      Osama bin Laden told that parable to explain the 9-11 attacks, not saying I agree with him but just that he told that story.

  • Just Me

    These “parents” are incompetent nincompoops!!!!!!

  • Steve

    This is a perfect example of spoiled parents. Come on people…Ice Cream is a big part of New York and banning them in certain neighborhoods is ridiculous. I can say no to my kids if I don’t want them to have ice cream. Yes my kids might not like it and protest but should it take away from another child?

    • Annie66

      Bravo! I agree with you. These morons should never have reproduced. If people cannot control small children, they have no business breeding. I would be willing to wager a small sum that those nitwits who want to ban ice cream truck also vote for Communists like Obama.

  • Anthony

    Why don’t those parents just move somewhere else?

  • http://daksden.wordpress.com dakotahgeo

    What the hell does the Hispanic/Latino population have to do with this??? There are plenty of WHITE people driving the ice cream trucks also!!! Stick your head in the toilet and don´t stop flushing until St. Peter says, “Hola.”

    • mamma-jamma

      Maybe you should stick to your ice cream rant, dakotahgeo! Just becuase YOU don’t want to bring race into this, it doesn’t mean that other people don’t want to!

      • http://daksden.wordpress.com dakotahgeo

        I just consider the source of your arrogance/ignorance, and I don´t have to apologize for your stupidity! Fortunately, the majority of Americans aren´t racist bigots… sorry for you!

  • eddie

    No I don’t think they should ban Ice Cream trucks,some parents just take things to the extreme:(

  • http://daksden.wordpress.com dakotahgeo

    Don´t take the little sh-ts out to the truck, you idiot parents!!! If the kid(s) throw(s) a fit ,send them directly to bed! Fer cryin out loud!!! You gonna abdicate ALL your authority to your kid(s)?? Geeezzz!!!

  • Cece

    How stupid is this? This is what’s wrong with parenting today. Tell your little pipsqueak “NO” or else give into one of the simple joys of summer.

  • soccermama

    Let the little darlings learn the meaning of the word, “NO”. If they have a tantrum, ignore them. Helloooooo!!!

    • dad-e-o

      Ignore is not a propper response to the self centered little brats. Loving corporal punishment would certainly open the little buggers eyes. It takes balls to do what is right some times. there is a differance between abuse and a whacking.

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