My mom used to tell me that the ice cream man wold kidnap me if i went neer him, I didnt believ her so she got one of her rich friends to rent the actual icecream mans truck and get him to fake kidnap me.
I didn't go near him for 5 years 'till my friend told me it was a hoax.
A childhood belief about ice cream vans

others believed things like this
- My mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon
- I used to believe that if the ice cream truck was playing music, it had sold out of ice cream.— Deprived of ice cream
- If the ice cream truck is playing music, it means they are out of ice cream.— Virginia
- I used to believe that the Ice Cream truck would only play music when it was out of ice cream. Thanks, Dad.Anon
- i thought that if the icecream van had its chimes going, it meant it was out of ice cream— Gracie
- My mother told me that when the icecream man played music that meant he was OUT of icecream.— B. Jones