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RockRaven

(15,019 posts)
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 10:56 PM Jun 2021

I've got to hand it to the kid who is trolling/pranking my neighborhood this evening...

He's got himself a good, fairly wholesome prank. He's slowly riding his bike up and down every street in the neighborhood -- one-handed, because in his other hand is a wireless/Bluetooth speaker which is blasting out ice cream truck music.

I heard the music get louder then fade away, louder then fade away as he was on neighboring streets. As it got very loud I looked up from what I was reading expecting to see the truck drive past, but it was an adolescent on a mountain bike instead.

And he really did his homework. It sounds exactly like our usual ice cream truck (a version of "Home on the Range" which is very high pitched and jangly even for ice cream truck tunes). I spent some time googling and could find anything which sounded just right like he did.

At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, it was refreshing to see a prank without vandalism, littering, embarrassment, fright, or battery -- because those aren't really pranks but often seem to pass as such these days.

Good job, merry prankster!

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I've got to hand it to the kid who is trolling/pranking my neighborhood this evening... (Original Post) RockRaven Jun 2021 OP
Wait ... dweller Jun 2021 #1
That would make me chuckle too. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #2
I know some boys who dressed as Mormon missionaries RainCaster Jun 2021 #3
It shouldn't have TlalocW Jun 2021 #4
Can't help it. I didl too! calimary Jun 2021 #6
!!! progressoid Jun 2021 #7
Yeah, I salute that too. Although, I'm sure a few parents with small kids disagree. Hoyt Jun 2021 #5

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,858 posts)
2. That would make me chuckle too.
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 11:06 PM
Jun 2021

I wouldn't be surprised if some people got really angry about it, if they're perpetually uptight.

The ice cream trucks always play "Music Box Dancer" around here:

RainCaster

(10,926 posts)
3. I know some boys who dressed as Mormon missionaries
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 11:07 PM
Jun 2021

Rode their ten speeds around the neighborhood kicking over garbage cans on trash day.

TlalocW

(15,392 posts)
4. It shouldn't have
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 11:19 PM
Jun 2021

But that made me laugh out loud.

"Don't want to talk with us? Okay then..." *kicks garbage can over*

TlalocW

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