There are large signs on our street stating that no commercial vehicles are allowed and trespassers will be prosecuted. The same ice cream vendors who were given the Trespass Order ignore the order and signs and appear sometimes every day while laughing in our faces. These vendors are portrayed as 'heroes' who help us stay cool in the summer.

I would like to say that they break the law while causing war in neighbourhoods and walk away with a huge profit for themselves. If you take away the money they make, they wouldn't help anyone stay cool. Can you believe it has gone so far in our neighbourhood that a neighbour was punched and assaulted and thrown down a flight of cement stairs over the ice cream trucks? During the winter when the ice cream vendors are not around, everyone is peaceful and helping each other shovel snow from their driveways.

As a homeowner I find it hard to believe that I have to look for another home just because these vendors get away with disrupting the peace. I have submitted long lists of dates and times, vendor plate numbers, submitted photographs and more to Brampton bylaw enforcement. I have written many letters to the Mayor of Brampton. I have had the police out to my home several times and submitted long letters to them about the ice cream vendors disturbing the peace.

In the end, the vendors just laugh in our face and continue selling in front of our home.

Shouldn't every citizen be allowed to live in peace and quiet ?

Do these vendors have the right to turn a quiet, peaceful residential street into their own commercial zone with blasting music and crowds like a carnival? In my opinion they are not heroes but rather lawbreakers that ignore trespass orders while stealing profit from local vendors.