A Pennsylvania lawmaker was cited for disorderly conduct for
blowing an air horn during a borough council meeting.  West York
Councilman Tim Berkheimer pulled out the air horn and blew it at
the peak of a heated, three-hour long debate Monday night over
parking meters in the borough.  During the meeting, which had
deteriorated into shouting and accusations, Berkheimer said a
man in the crowd who was upset with him started toward the
borough council table and approached him “in a threatening
manner.”The man had accused Berkheimer of staring at him,
Berkheimer said, asking the councilman, “What're you staring
at?” Berkheimer said he replied, “It's a free country. I can
stare at what ever I want to stare at.”  That was when the man
came toward the table.  “It looked like he was going to come
over the table so I pulled out the only thing I had, the air
horn,” he said. “It was self defense.”  Police confiscated the
air horn and issued a citation.  Berkheimer believes he was
cited because the police have it in for