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Show Judge Holds Auto Horn Is "Useful" Accessory MILWAUKEE. A motorist's ar-gument ar-gument than an automobile horn is a "useless gadget that only makes people nervous" failed in the district dis-trict court. The motorist, Charles McGee, 28, of 1826 W. Fond du Lac av., was fined $5 by Judge Harvey L. Neelen on a charge of operating an automobile auto-mobile without a horn. McGee was arrested when his automobile stalled at N. Plankinton avenue and W. Michigan street. "There is no reason for a horn," McGee told Judge Neelen. "With good brakes, good lights and good steering, an automobile is better off without one. A horn only makes people nervous." Judge Neelen replied that "if any automobile ever needed a horn it is the 12 year old one you drive." The judge said that a horn which warns a pedestrian sometimes is the difference between life and death. |