Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "ice cream wars in louth in lincolnshire" video.

  1. I do think there is something wrong with a culture that takes the, “official complaint,” as the first line of response to a problem rather than simply speaking to the person responsible. The man in question gave an eminently reasonable response and I think people should have their complaints summarily dismissed unless they can evidence their own attempts to approach the person in question to seek a remedy. We need to foster a culture of cooperation and community. And to foster a society that judges the official complaint as a form of failure in itself. Unless you are elderly and infirm, or in some other way disabled and have no one to act on your behalf, why do we feel we have the right to use up the precious resource of official time? Of course the ice cream van is an import, as is the Christmas Tree, Halloween celebrations and countless other little joys that I recall as a part of the landscape of my childhood. So what? Why should that have any bearing? Should we ban American Halloween? German Christmas Trees? Or should we remember that little ray of sunshine that sparkled in our own childhoods when we heard the chimes of the ice cream van coming? From your description, the ice cream vendor seems a harmless, polite man, plying his trade as best he can and keen to reach a resolution without bothering any, “officials.” We all know our rights, don’t we? How many of us know our responsibilities as well, and in such detail, as those rights? I don’t doubt he did let his chimes play on too long, and would apologise and stop doing it, if he’d merely been asked. But no. Mr, or Ms, Angry had to reach for the phone or their keyboard and waste the time and resources of, “officialdom,” just to make a point. Presumably because peeing on all four corners of the street to mark out their territory has gone out of style? Phooey, to Mr or Ms Angry. The guy’s just trying to make a living. Who doesn’t love an ice cream van? Other than certain members of the Scottish Mafia, but that’s another tale altogether.
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