[SmithL]

I am becoming more and more convinced that the sole purpose of Berkeley is to entertain the rest of the Country.

[Aleighanne]

what about the rights of the people who have to hear all 40 honk their horns?

[kingattax]

LOL..this is toooooo funny

[kromike]

True, but the scary reality is that these fools are deadly serious.

[Larry Lucido]

Someone should remind the woman that her fellow libs passed the anti-noise law for The Children. Surely she supports The Children, doesn't she? If the protesters said "light up if you support us," would she have lit one up? Dilemmas, dilemmas.

[BillCompton]

Hmmmm. I think I have to side with her. This really was, apparently, done in support of a political statement. There is no sign it was harrassment. Of course, being in the 9th Judicial Circuit, they probably would create a new right to own a government provided horn for homeless people so they may exercise their rights.

[ozzymandus]

Feel-good story of the day!

[Horatio Gates]

Carol Harris, 51, is appealing her $143 "unreasonable use of horn'' citation to Berkeley's Police Review Commission,

What happended to just contesting the ticket in muni court? Or do they just do it differently in Berkely?

[Cultural Jihad]

Harris said . . . that some of the demonstrators carried signs urging passers-by to honk, . . .

Well, supposedly since they told her to break the law that makes it allowable. (sheesh)

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

Since the cops/firemen/emergency personnel are union in our area they would never ever ticket honk-support of union picketers.
Our family rolls down the windows and yells 'go to work, go to work...'

[scott says]

I lived in Berkeley in the early 80's. I remember going down Telegraph Avenue, all the street merchants, artists, hippie dippy jokesters...I came upon a hippie dude with a table full of way left leaning bumper stickers, you know the ones...I said real LOUD--you got one that says "The Sixties are Over-GROW UP!!"

[Mannaggia l'America]

"That's the clincher. It's my First Amendment right to voice my opinion, I believe,'' Harris said.

Then why didn't she use her voice instead of her horn? But for some reason, I bet this woman's voice sounds just like her car horn....

[aculeus]

"That's the clincher. It's my First Amendment right to voice my opinion, I believe,'' Harris said.

The heck with the sleeping children awakened by your stupid late night horn blowing.

Aculeus's rule: Always cross a picket line.

BTW The Claremont is a lovely hotel.

[AgThorn]

at midnite? I would think that a noise ordinance could be sited at that hour, but if truly honking your horn is a law breaking offense then the police have the right to arrest the protesters that are encouraging people to break the law with signs, right?

Free speach doesn't let me yell "fire" in a theatre, then free speach should not allow me to encourage people to break the law .... separate issue than whether this should be a law or not in Berkely but that's a messed up town anyway.

[freepatriot32]

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[JoeGar]

She'd have been shot responding to "honk if you love Jesus".

[real saxophonist]

'Unreasonable use of Horn'?

Then Kenny G should get the death penalty!

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