El Segundo has been under attack by the Air Horn Guy for the last six weeks. He was finally busted at 4 AM this morning.
The praise poured onto El Segundo Police Department’s Facebook page from ecstatic residents.
“They found the air horn guy!!” wrote Jenn Birch.
Jennifer Phan wrote to another resident, “It was this idiot that’s been waking us up!”
According to police, Phan and other residents can now sleep easy.
On Sunday, patrol officers heard the blare of an actuated air horn — a device similar to a train horn — as it shattered the pre-dawn silence of El Segundo’s west side at about 4 a.m., police said on Facebook.
Officers looked around and saw only one car on the street — a little blue four-door, 2006 Chevrolet Aveo — and pulled it over, said Sgt. Vincent Martinez.
In the back of the car, officers found an air tank with hoses connected to a device near the car’s gas pedal, Martinez said. When an officer tried the car’s horn, the sound of “a big truck or train” blasted from the diminutive hatchback, he said.
John W. Nuggent, brother of Ted Nugent, admitted he was the man who for the last six weeks had been driving down the street in the middle of the night waking up residents.
Nuggent has been contacted by the DNC and offered a job sounding his horn outside the White House after Trump takes office. The thinking is Trump may believe it’s the 3 AM phone call.
