BANTER: The Way of the Bag (fwd)

[Michael Surbrook <susano@access.digex.net>]

This was sent to me on another list.  I'd thought I'd pass it on, as it
seemed to remind me of several early mornings at Pennisc...

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:33:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Bartalone <buffalo@universe.digex.net>
To: Slacking Weasels <weasel-patrol@otd.com>
Subject: The Way of the Bag (fwd)

Got this from a friend.....i am amused.


andy
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What is the connection between crypto and bagpipes? Well 
crypto is regarded as an armament by the US ITAR regulations.
Later this month a British court is to rule as to whether
bagpipes are still classified as "instruments of war"!
The story is in todays Times newspaper (The British one)
It seems that a piper is being taken to court for practising
on Hampstead Heath, which has a bye-law forbidding music.
Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied the charge, citing a case in 1746,
where bagpipes were declared to be instruments of war, not musical
instruments, and a subsequent Act of Parliament which specifically stated
that they were weapons. He claims he wasn't playing a musicaL 
instrument, but practising with a weapon! 

The imagination boggles if his claim is successful! Will it
be possible to sue pipers for assault with a deadly weapon?
Will airports be equipped with bagpipe detectors?  








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