Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Hippy Tune Hating Waterloo Man Arrested for Air Horn Blasting

A Waterloo man faces a disorderly conduct charge after he retaliated against noisy neighbors by blasting an air horn in their direction.

Carl Herold said he got tired of the "hippie tunes" constantly coming from across the street. The 62-year-old bought an air horn from an old dump truck last week, pointed it at his neighbor's house, connected it to an air compressor for power and started tooting away.

His neighbors called police within minutes. The arresting officer said he heard the horn blasts every few seconds starting about five blocks from the house. He arrested Herold when he refused to stop.

Herold told The Associated Press on Monday he hasn't decided if he'll fight the arrest.

via Waterloo man arrested for blasting air horn in retaliation for neighbors' noise.

My uncle was the bass player for Steppenwolf. Herold, it seems, was not born to be wild. There will be no hippie tunes in jail... so he wins.

2 comments:

Megivern said...

I grew up next to Herold and what he calls "hippie tunes is a lot like the Elvis tunes that i had to listen to when he would blast them, to make it worse he would sing along with them and that didn't do any justice for anyone

Anonymous said...

Yep thats true... he's my uncle and a complete asshole. He dies his hair what we call "cat fish blue" and tries to dress like Elvis as well. I do know that he would pick up women at single parents meetings, he is married and never been divorced. He drives around in a creepy van and I had heard recently he went to a strip club with my dad, dropped off my dad somewhere and then crashed his voodoo van and the police found him in it and he got a DUI LMFAO!!!!!! I feel sorry you had to live next to this creep. How about all those gargoyle lion statues he painted and put on the ledge???? hahahahahahahahahaahahh