[HANASHIR:13744] Re: No Strings Attached!

[Andy Curry <acurry...>]

I'd like for someone to demonstrate how he could use a guitar string to 
strangle a person without cutting or bruising his own hands!

Seriously, Jeff, it's a good thing you had your tefillin packed in your 
checked baggage.  Talk about your potential weapon...

Kol tuv,
Andy

At 11:03 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>This past weekend as I was scurrying through the x-rays at Logan Airport on
>the way to a gig, I was stopped and questioned about my guitar by one of the
>new Federal screeners.  He rifled through my gig bag and took out all my
>extra guitar strings!  Said they were a potential weapon.  I always knew
>that music was a weapon of peace (upon Woody Guthrie's guitar was written:
>"This Machine Kills Fascists" and Pete Seeger's banjo says: "This machine
>surrounds hate and forces it to surrender" - but I digress...) but there was
>no changing this man's mind.  He did, however, say that the strings which
>were on the guitar could stay on.  Whew!  Close call.
>
>I tried to retrieve the strings he took when I returned, but no dice.  I
>complained to the supervisor.  He told me that someone big and strong could
>have TAKEN MY GUITAR STRINGS FROM ME AND USED THEM TO STRANGLE SOMEBODY.
>Well, now we can all sleep better knowing that our chance of being strangled
>by a guitar string on a plane is vastly reduced.
>
>Anyway, my friends in gig-land, to prevent this from happening to you, do
>the following:
>
>Pack your extra strings in checked luggage.   Or, carry with you a thick
>self addressed envelope, scotch tape and plenty of stamps, so that if you
>get busted for guitar strings, (or scissors or nail clipper) you can mail
>them back to yourself at the airport.
>
>Ever yours from gig-land,
>jeff klepper
>
>

Andy Curry, Kansas City
acurry (at) lenexa(dot)sema(dot)slb(dot)com

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