Sirens, Lights, and Theme Songs

Why can't an ice cream truck run red lights? What if there are kids across the intersection who are running towards it? Don't you think the best thing would be for the craved truck to bolt across the street as soon as possible? But it can't because it doesn't have a siren. You have to have a siren to get run red lights.

Now some vehicles have lights atop their roofs without a siren. Like Meter maids, wide load escort cars, or construction vehicles. They just cruise around with lights that no one pays attention to. Why? They don't have a siren. Now Ice cream trucks don't get lights and construction vehicles don't get sirens. Only fire trucks, ambulances, and law enforcement cars have sirens.

Think about that. What if a rising bridge is jammed and a ship is about to go under it and crash. The police and fire trucks are on the scene, but they can't operate the bridge and aren't trained to fix it. Meanwhile, the construction truck with the engineer and his buddy the mechanic are stuck in traffic with their stupid yellow lights flashing.

Animal Control has a light, but I've never heard a siren. There aren't many emergencies where a rhino is stampeding downtown Salt Lake City, or a giant mutant snake has emerged from the swamps and is terrorizing the city. Have you ever watched Cops and wondered why the cops are trying to get a snake out from under a car? or crocodile out of a pool? They always seem confused and out of place, like they have no idea what to do. Well, it's because the animal control people are stuck in traffic with their orange lights flashing. That's why there's no reality show about animal control. It'd be 30 minutes of them yelling at cars cutting them off.

Now one thing that an ice cream truck has is that all the authorized emergency vehicles don't is a theme song. Seriously, other than when watching "The Three Stooges" or listening to a kid practice the violin, Have you ever heard the song "pop goes the weasel" anywhere else besides the other than in a neighborhood after school gets out? NO! Everyone knows what that song means. It is heard, appreciated, and responded to immediately. There aren't people confused on what it is, they are confused on where it is. For some reason those speakers on the truck echo around and make it hard to establish a sound vector.

Now think about this. What if more vehicles had theme songs. Wouldn't you like to be driving on the freeway and hear the tune to "Cops" Blare out from their powerful speakers? Or perhaps "Car 54 where are you?"? or my favorite "The Lone Ranger"

What if "ER" or "General Hospital" or even the song from "Scrubs" was playing as you went into a hospital.

What if in court, you heard the "Peoples Court" music in the halls, or even better..."Night Court"?
What if you were looking for someone to help you with an odd job and heard the "A-Team" music.
What if you were to go into a police station and "Dragnet" played as a narrator addressed your case to the detective?
Or you're walking down the street or through the mall and see some undercover cops chasing some teenager? wouldn't you love the theme from "21 Jump street" Playing from a small radio on their belt?

Brandy who I work with at Zions Bank would probably love to hear "money, money, money" every morning as she came to work. (She already does though because she freaking loves ABBA)

I'd love to have "Stand" by REM play everywhere I went, and "We Didn't Start the Fire" every time I have to take care of a problem.

If more aspects of life were more like the Ice Cream man and had themes, people would take life with less unnecessary seriousness and give respect to where it's due like to the police driving to the music of "Hawaii 5-0".

One group has it all...A unique siren, lights, and a theme song. Look at the respect they get while on the job and how happy of a life they lead. They are fun and crazy guys and everyone loves them...

Did you figure it out?...Yes the Ghostbusters!