[HANASHIR:13768] Re: No Strings Attached!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org] On Behalf Of Denis Rochat
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:06 PM
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:13765] Re: No Strings Attached!
> 
> 
> I followed all the procedures correctly for removal from this
> list on Thursday 2/27. I will respond to every post I receive 
> until that happens. Denis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
> shamash(dot)org]On
> Behalf Of Andy Curry
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:38 AM
> 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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