[HANASHIR:13754] Re: No Strings Attached!

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

Gloves.
Jackie Guttman

> From: Andy Curry <acurry (at) lenexa(dot)sema(dot)slb(dot)com>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:38:15 -0600
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:13744] Re: No Strings Attached!
> 
> 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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