On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:10:43 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:52:28 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Washington woman gets complaint from HOA that she has too many chickens in
her yard (like more than zero).

Woman registers her displeasure by honking her horn repeatedly, a dawn
(since there are no more roosters), in front of HOA's president's house.

When arrested, woman claims horn-honking is an exercise in free speech.

Convicted anyway.

Obviously the judge is in the pocket of the HOA.

Your freedom of anything ends when it interferes with someone elses
freedom of anything.

I agree with Kurt - it's harassment, not freedom of speech.

The first ammendment has never guaranteed the right to yodel in movie
theaters.

You can't cry censorship unless you actually have something to say.
Being an asshole with a car horn isn't saying anything other than that you're
an asshole with a car horn.

I used to have a neighbor whose ex-wife would arrive every week and honk
the horn until her brats came out. I wish we had an HOA that could have
charged her. I tried to explain to her how one can get out of a car and
ring a door bell instead of bothering the whole neighborhood, but her only
reaction was to make every effort to impress upon me that she was
a world class bitch.