Sometimes you just have to blow your own horn.
Or not.
A Waterloo, Iowa man recently sounded his air horn several times to stop a neighbor from blanketing the hood with "hippie tunes."
And then Carl Herold, age 62, was arrested for disorderly conduct after refusing to end the decibel duel.
You can sympathize if the daylight concerts were rock, rap or country music. But what the hell are "hippie tunes?"
Sitar serenades? Bongo blues? Weed waltzes?
Herold resorted to compressed-air emissions-- normally used to alert other boaters to one's presence in fog banks--when police didn't respond to his complaints.
Perhaps the cops were closet ex-flower children who smoke reefers and wear tie-dyed shirts on weekends.
The police insist they could hear the horn from five blocks away.
Duh. Everyone knows that Mary Jane enhances the senses. (8 AUGUST 2010)
