A new form of pollution...?

So, I'm working on the green side of things, recycling more, using environmental products, unplugging things or using surge protectors, cancelling my New York Times subscription (oh, the paper!), and I think I'm doing a pretty decent job.
Tonight I discovered a new form of pollution: NOISE pollution! Living in one of the noisiest, craziest cities around, you get used to the noise; the street sounds, the car alarms, the domestic fights, the clattering of the subway, the honking of the traffic...All those things are expected, par for the course, the sounds of the city, and I can deal with them. But this? This specific noise? This incessant, repetitive, tinny, tinkly, grating-in-my-brain cacaphony? It starts seasonally, in the late afternoon and doesn't stop until after 9 pm??? Yes, you got it, I'm talking about the Mister Softee ice cream truck. I have no idea how they composed the inane jingle, or why they are allowed to play it over and over and over and over for HOURS???
I've done some research on the topic, and apparently I'm not the only one to feel this way...
This is taken from a Legal Aid pamphlet
"According to a federal Environmental Protection Agency pamphlet, noise "loud enough to cause hearing loss is almost everywhere in the city." Or as one writer put it. "New Yorkers are expected to work and live in an aural state of siege.

Despite the inevitability of noise in a crowded city, much of the raucous blare can be curtailed, and there are some laws on the books designed to do just that. The principal noise abatement law in New York is the Noise Control Code--Chapter 57 of the city's administrative code. The law declares, "It is the public policy of the city that every person is entitled to ambient noise levels that are not detrimental to life, health. and enjoyment of property." The general rule about noise set forth in the code is Section 1403.3-3.01, which states: "No person shall make, continue or cause or permit to be made or continued any unnecessary noise."

And this is taken from the New York Times article: "Mister Softee May Fall Under Cone of Silence":
"Most trucks start cruising around noon and do not return to Mister Softee operations depots, like the one on Carroll Street in Brooklyn, until 10 p.m. or later. Drivers say they make most of their money between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., when parents come home and can give their children the 75 cents to $1.25 for a soft-serve cone."

Ummm, hello? Children do NOT need ice cream late at night!!! It's bad for their teeth! That is the most ridiculous capitalist argument at the expense of our kids I have ever heard!
At least I'm not alone in this crusade:
"Charles G. Sturcken, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection, which enforces the city's noise code, said that in the month of May alone there were 243 noise complaints about ice cream vendors. Mr. Sturcken said he did not know how many had involved Mister Softee trucks."

Well, so I contacted the City of New York Department of the Environment, under the noise pollution section, and I called my local police precint (who were completely unimpressed and unhelpful! "Uhhh, yeah, he's just trying to make a living") who were clearly not going to file my complaint. I'm thinking of drafting a petition next and driving this noise mongering, cavity-peddling torturer out of my neighborhood!

Have a peaceful, quiet evening (if you don't live near a Mister Softee truck!)