SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED forwarded this to me... I appologize for
the lack of LBC content, still it IS funny.
I would be interested to know how the courts decided he case...
Hey John Hardy, can you find out if Bagpipes are still a weapon
of war?
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 07:32:21 CST
From: SJANNA JOHNSTON <JOHNSTON@mhc.uiuc.edu>
To: HSCHEELE@mhc.uiuc.edu, PHOLDEN@mhc.uiuc.edu, jkaufman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu,
gpetrola@prairienet.org, fredt@pobox.com,
udsd007@dsibm.okladot.state.ok.us, RSHANKAR@mhc.uiuc.edu,
fisher@stic.com
Subject: FW: [HUMOR] Are bagpipes weapon
Monday am chuckle.
Sjanna
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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 today's 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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