John Deutzman's Blog

Horn blowing is one of those New York " things". It’s perfectly ok to blow your horn and give the hi sign to somebody who cuts you off in traffic but I am tormented by horn blowers who have to be mentally ill.

I live on a pretty narrow street in Manhattan and once and a while the street gets clogged by garbage trucks and delivery guys. By my rules , it’s ok to blow your horn once in that situation, More than once... you need to take a Valium...If you lay on the horn multiple times you need to be transported to a looney bin.

First of all, it’s against the law to blow your horn excessively on my street. There are big signs all over the place that taxpayers paid for. I doubt anyone has been convicted of excessive horn blowing in the city.

Secondly, I have never seen horn blowing achieve any movement of traffic or levitation of garbage or delivery trucks so all it does is keep me and my neighbors awake.

Thirdly, I must confess I have some "Dirty Harry" fantasies of how I can deal with these horn blowers. Those fantasies also apply to car alarms and barking dogs. The fantasies involve a very bright light followed by a loud explosion. But as the song goes "You can’t go to jail for what your thinking"