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Honk if you... never mind

Postby Enzo » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:10 pm

Detroit area (Ferndale), some war protestors gathered every Monday evening at a MAJOR intersection - 9 Mile and Woodward - waving signs that asked motorists to honk if they agreed.

Police took exception and went out to enforce the local ordinance prohibiting horn honking except in emergencies. They warned the protestors that the signs disturbed drivers. A couple of them were arrested, cuffed, and printed. The protestors, not the motorists.

(Ferndale has in fact passed city resolutions opposing the war.)

In a settlement with the city, their signs have been returned and the protestors won't sue, though apparently the citations remain.

The protestors plan to challenge the constitutionality of no-honk laws in federal court with the help of the ACLU.
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Postby Мастер » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:09 pm

So what it their charge - aiding and abetting honking?
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Postby Lance » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:26 pm

If the people in the cars are the honkers, are the people with the signs the honkees?
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Postby Мастер » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:51 pm

Lance wrote:If the people in the cars are the honkers, are the people with the signs the honkees?

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Postby Enzo » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:04 am

Hey hey we're the Honkees
And we're just honkin around
But we're to busy honkin
To put anybody down...

Inciting to honk?
Public nuisance?
Causing a disturbance?
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Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:19 pm

It's an offence to be horny?
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Postby Enzo » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:28 am

Oh yes. Around here we have neither unicorns nor horny eunuchs.
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Postby Enzo » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:30 am

(OK, point of style issue. I went back and forth over it. SHould I have gone ahead and spelled it out as eunuch horn, or was unicorn the better way to frame it?)
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:12 am

The way you wrote it was clear. :D
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Postby Enzo » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:20 am

I was thinking about which way made the better joke. The best part of humor being the part left unsaid to flower in the mind of the beholder.
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