How About The Sweet Sound Of My Fist Hitting . . . Wait, Was That Out Loud?

As part of the Mayor’s plan for cracking down on noise pollution, the sweet sound of Mister Softee will be curtailed but not completely eliminated:

The Bloomberg administration will allow the ice cream trucks to continue playing the sprightly ditty while trolling for young customers. But under a compromise with the City Council, the jingle must be halted when the trucks are not moving.

The administration’s plan to ban the jingle was the most intriguing element of an ambitious citywide noise crackdown, which was intended to curb a wide array of everyday nuisances like blaring music, barking dogs and noisy air-conditioners.

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The agreement would also impose stringent time limits on barking dogs; if they don’t stop within 5 minutes late at night, or 10 minutes during the day and early evening, their owners can be cited.

Noisy sanitation trucks would be banned from collecting garbage within 50 feet of a residence between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. And most construction projects would have to stop overnight, except for emergencies, public safety work or where the builder faces undue hardship like financial penalties.

(Not to nitpick, but doesn’t every construction project have financial penalties for not finishing work on time?)