In the UK, it is an offence for ice cream vans to sound their chimes before midday or after 7 pm, for more than 12 seconds at a time or more frequently than once every 2 minutes.

In Sri Lanka the plentiful mobile bread vans all play Für Elise – on, and on, and on, and on.  It seemingly never ends and you even get a doppler effect as it warbles in to the distance.  Several times on video meetings I have heard such a van passing by – and whether the same one or another, the music has then re-appeared as picked up by another colleague\’s microphone!

Steve