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There are people selling food from vehicles or similar in many European cities.

They need a licence.

I once reported the man selling ice cream from the street outside my office for leaving his engine running, the fumes were coming inside our office. The police arrested him, and siezed the vehicle, since it turned out he didn't have a license, and had previously been given a warning.

Example: http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/business/markets/street_...

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You must be German. ;-)

Wait what? Maybe his engine was running to run the freezer to keep your ice cream cold?

If so, that served him right for running a 70 KW Diesel engine to operate a 0.5 KW freezer.

If he was ignoring regulations on energy efficiency, it's very possible he was also ignoring regulations on health and hygiene.

There was a locked plug socket on the base of a lamppost outside, and a very small sign saying it was for the use of the street food trader.

I asked the trader to use the socket, rather than his engine, since the diesel fumes were coming into our office, and the adjacent building was a primary school. He refused, so I reported him to the local council. They referred it to the police, since the van's number plate wasn't in their records.

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