why has this man been honked 5,000 times ? rick krlich 's side of the story : according to rick krlich , john clemente and his family retaliated by organizing a vast these crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to . youngstown , ohio ( cn ) – for nearly 10 years , one resident claims employees and officials of a small eastern ohio town have been honking while driving past his home , in what he calls a campaign to harass him for bidding on a property owned by the former fire chief ’s family . what started it all : in a 2007 real estate deal , rick krlich got into a dispute with john clemente over the house next door . krlich claims hubbard , ohio police chief james r. taafe , the city of hubbard and trumball county “ intentionally ‘ turned a blind eye ’ to the rights and plight of plaintiff and his wife , but numerous city and county officials , executives and employees have been recorded actively , directly and intentionally participating in this campaign , sometimes while in city andor county vehicles . it 's a long complicated story , but essentially , rick krlich succeeded only in annoying john clemente family for several generations . that way , as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web , a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved . then the internet archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken , or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page 's authors .