Posted on 08/04/2010 7:42:17 AM PDT by MissTed
An Iowa man who used an air horn to protest his neighbor's loud "hippie tunes" was arrested for disorderly conduct, police said.
Carl Herold, 62, of Waterloo, said he "started blasting" the air horn Wednesday because he was tired of calling police to complain about the loud "hippie tunes" from his across-the-street neighbor, the (Waterloo) WCF Courier, reported Tuesday.
Police said they could hear the air horn from five blocks away when they responded to complaints about the noise at about 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Herold was arrested when he refused an order from officers to stop sounding the horn. He was charged with disorderly conduct.
Another neighbor needs to do it tomorrow. And the next day, a third neighbor. So on, and so on until the Police Chief takes their complaints seriously.
It was 1:00 pm. Was the horn bothering anyone?
I had neighbors that partied Saturday night with loud music....so I promptly got up at 7am to mow my lawn and weed wack. I could hear them waking up with hangovers....
There but for the love of God go many of us...except my particular air horn dream revolves around a good set of marine airhorns attached to my shopping cart at Costco, and scattering the drones who wander aimlessly like the damned from sample lady to sample lady...
Don’t know. I heard it was a blast of fresh air...
Exactly. Why is one type of noise okay but another not? Shut down the music and the other will go away.
Agreed. Good for him. He should have had one of those horns they used at the soccer games...as long as he wore hearing protection.
Bless him. I love him.
Two-Part Skunk Scent. So potent, the catalyst is added at the last moment.
Four drops each on a cotton ball and left 'somewhere' will cover a 10K sqft warehouse.
P.S.
My belief is that no one, and do mean no one, has the right to invade one’s living space/property with their overflowing racket.
How I wish I could do that to the bums playing that loud rap music in their cars when they pull up next to me at the stop light.
What worked for me in the dorm was countering with bagpipe music at 5am, never had a problem with late night loud music again.
When I was living in a townhouse condo, I had some neighbors who sat in the yard with a boom box turned up to full volumn, playing some country or heavy metal so loud that I could not hear my TV. I often heard them doing this in the middle of the night, waking me up, and I was getting tired of their lack of consideration for others.
That afternoon, I had had enough, so, I turned both stereo speakers out the patio door, pointed right at the a@@h@@@s, turned up the volumn to the highest level, and played Mozart’s Requiem. Soon, the neighbors turned off the boom box and went inside their condo. In retrospect, I guess I’m lucky they didn’t come over and beat the snot out of me.
I don’t care what time of the day or night it is. It is still an invasion. If someone’s noise comes into my space at home, I have the right to complain.
Are you a loud neighbor?
After mowing & edging, a skill saw on some junk lumber would have topped the cake.
“Hippie tunes”?
Country or heavy metal? You don’t see those together too often.
Back in the '70s, my best friend really hated drivers behind with their brights on. So.....
He filled his trunk with car batteries, and mounted an aircraft landing light in his back seat. We got more than a couple of laughs out of that.
“Country or heavy metal? You don’t see those together too often.”
Lately, it’s hard to tell them apart, but, then I was never a fan of either. I must have been African in a past life. I love most music with African origins - soul, jazz, latin, blues, funk, but cannot connect with music having Gallic roots.
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