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Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
A schoolboy from Paisley has been told to stop practising his bagpipes outside his home after he was found breaking anti-social behaviour law noise limits.
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Where are we heading? Personally I would gladly welcome the pipes being played on the street here over the car thefts, stabbings, loud base from the speakers in nearly every car that stops at the traffic light on the corner, littering, loud abusive language, etc, etc, etc…..
When did we all start getting so annoyed by every action of another? Sorry state of affairs if you ask me.
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
There are a lot worse things a teenager could be doing. My dad and brother were pipers, right enough they did play the chanter inside and my brother was banished to the garden to play the pipes but I can't remember anyone complaining.
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
who is the big dave fella who practices bagpipes and flute up on hampstead heath common he is an aquaintance of mick o'connor's he got arrested for it apparently
he guests on an album called come by the hills by lough swilly
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Look it up in a British slang dictionary. Or piece it together from context...in the states we'd see these thoughtful, mustachioed cottaging types camping together or hanging out in certain bars or dance clubs where there are few or no women...and many of the "women" have Adam's apples and five o clock shadow! ; )
Anyway. Bagpipes are a SOCIAL as well as military instrument. That's too bad the young man got into trouble with the law over just having a tune on the pipes. I hope he can find a more friendly space to keep up his practice routine. Seems like society is always putting obstacles to creative development in one's way, it's such a pain in the backside.
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
humph, looks like 41 decibels is the cut-off. it would be really curious to find out how that law got adopted. why 41? but i donno, if a guy was playing the bagpipes outside my window while i was trying to, uh, do anything i might lose it. [cue voice of Scotty from star trek] "there's got to be a better way"
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
""Cottaging". I innocently imagined that it referred to a holiday in the country....."
Could be. Could be.
I was, just a couple of weeks ago, rousted by the constabulary for fiddling in a school zone.
On a Sunday, so I was hardly guilty of corrupting youth into becoming roving gangs of malicious fiddlers.
I had to put the fiddle down, so as to remove the threat of assault with a piece of extremely fragile hollow spruce, put my hands up in the air and everything. Got checked for priors and outstanding warrants and then escorted off the grounds.
And to think I chose the school ground because it was the least likely place around to disturb people with the noise. Apparently I weirded out a janitor.
But only in the fourth degree, so I avoided actual arrest.
If I'd been there doing things that could cause actual harm to body and property no one would have paid it no nevermind.
And it's not like I was playing viola or anything.
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
spot on dave brookes it is he who is the mad piper from the whitestone pond district however i dont think ASBO's were around then so knowing the met police it would have been a spank on the wrist or a good sweeney style kicking in the back of a paddy wagon with a chanter inserted into an orofice
do you remember george michael smacking one out in a toilet and getting arrested for "cottaging" ???
hampstead heath is a bit of a known area like earls court, brighton beach, and clapham common where M.P. ron davis was found bound in bin liners with an orange stuffed in his gob
Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
A schoolboy from Paisley has been told to stop practising his bagpipes outside his home after he was found breaking anti-social behaviour law noise limits.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4512780.stm
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Q
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
It's only antisocial if the drones aren't tuned.
(which around here is about 60% of all players.)
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by wormdiet
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
I find that far less anti-social than what most of the kids round here do!
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Tarrantella
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Where are we heading? Personally I would gladly welcome the pipes being played on the street here over the car thefts, stabbings, loud base from the speakers in nearly every car that stops at the traffic light on the corner, littering, loud abusive language, etc, etc, etc…..
When did we all start getting so annoyed by every action of another? Sorry state of affairs if you ask me.
Peace,
Ed
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by ejsant
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
There are a lot worse things a teenager could be doing. My dad and brother were pipers, right enough they did play the chanter inside and my brother was banished to the garden to play the pipes but I can't remember anyone complaining.
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by lynzbox
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
who is the big dave fella who practices bagpipes and flute up on hampstead heath common he is an aquaintance of mick o'connor's he got arrested for it apparently
he guests on an album called come by the hills by lough swilly
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Ripthecalico
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
well at least he wasn't up there "cottaging" like all the other "considerate" men with moustaches lurking about up there
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Ripthecalico
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
What is cottaging?
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by full measure
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Look it up in a British slang dictionary. Or piece it together from context...in the states we'd see these thoughtful, mustachioed cottaging types camping together or hanging out in certain bars or dance clubs where there are few or no women...and many of the "women" have Adam's apples and five o clock shadow! ; )
Anyway. Bagpipes are a SOCIAL as well as military instrument. That's too bad the young man got into trouble with the law over just having a tune on the pipes. I hope he can find a more friendly space to keep up his practice routine. Seems like society is always putting obstacles to creative development in one's way, it's such a pain in the backside.
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Hanley
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Pain in the backside.
Cottaging.
Oh God make small the old, star-eaten blanket of the sky,
that I may wrap it round me and in comfort lie.
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by showaddydadito
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
This is *such* and educational site...and not just all the music stuff.
"Cottaging". I innocently imagined that it referred to a holiday in the country.....
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Batlady
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
humph, looks like 41 decibels is the cut-off. it would be really curious to find out how that law got adopted. why 41? but i donno, if a guy was playing the bagpipes outside my window while i was trying to, uh, do anything i might lose it. [cue voice of Scotty from star trek] "there's got to be a better way"
# Posted on December 9th 2005 by Brendan
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
If there is music in hell it will be ...................
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by bodhran bliss
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Batlady the public loos in England look little cottages - hence the term Wouldn't fancy spending a holiday in one!
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by Conán McDonnell
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
It's amazing what you learn just by walking through certain public parks.
As to the bagpipes, can't they go after kids who are actually causing problems? Yeesh.
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by sara g
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
""Cottaging". I innocently imagined that it referred to a holiday in the country....."
Could be. Could be.
I was, just a couple of weeks ago, rousted by the constabulary for fiddling in a school zone.
On a Sunday, so I was hardly guilty of corrupting youth into becoming roving gangs of malicious fiddlers.
I had to put the fiddle down, so as to remove the threat of assault with a piece of extremely fragile hollow spruce, put my hands up in the air and everything. Got checked for priors and outstanding warrants and then escorted off the grounds.
And to think I chose the school ground because it was the least likely place around to disturb people with the noise. Apparently I weirded out a janitor.
But only in the fourth degree, so I avoided actual arrest.
If I'd been there doing things that could cause actual harm to body and property no one would have paid it no nevermind.
And it's not like I was playing viola or anything.
KFG
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by KFG
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
I met Dave Brookes recently. He plays pipes and flute and lives in Hampstead. Perhaps it is he who plays on Hampstead Heath.
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by Paul_draper
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
spot on dave brookes it is he who is the mad piper from the whitestone pond district however i dont think ASBO's were around then so knowing the met police it would have been a spank on the wrist or a good sweeney style kicking in the back of a paddy wagon with a chanter inserted into an orofice
do you remember george michael smacking one out in a toilet and getting arrested for "cottaging" ???
hampstead heath is a bit of a known area like earls court, brighton beach, and clapham common where M.P. ron davis was found bound in bin liners with an orange stuffed in his gob
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by Ripthecalico
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
You're confusing Ron Davies with that Tory bloke who was found in his flat. I think it was a Sainsburys bag on his heid and a satsuma in his gob.
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by Bren
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Apaarently, if you play above a top D on a piccolo, you exceed 100db, and therefore should wear earplugs to play it.
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by snowyowl
Re: Cottage in the grove
After the Jeremy Thorpe case had allegations of people playing the "pink oboe", watch out for the "pink chanter" if you are up on the Heath.
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by geoffwright
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Apparently, if you play above a certain note on a piccolo, it exceeds the safety limit and you should therefore wear earplugs to play one.
# Posted on December 10th 2005 by snowyowl
Re: Does playing the bagpipes count as ASBO behaviour? Apparently so!
Any sound that breaches noise levels counts as asbo behaviour, no matter how 'good' it is. But I'd rather hear bagpips than thudding car speakers.
# Posted on December 13th 2005 by flying tigerpig