Extenuating circumstances, honest

[oddegg]

I think it should be legal to kill bagpipers.
Especially bagpipers who busk.
Particularly those who busk the same 3 tunes, very badly, ad infinitum.
But above all bagpipers who busk less than 500 yards from your office. All afternoon. All afternoon when you're trying to collate together and format a 300+ page document from about 8 separate other documents and the end result is full of graphs and tables and references and footnotes which you have to check whilst listening to that wailing screech outside that even playing full volume Atari Teenage Riot on your ipod wont drown out.

I can see it now. "Well officer, he started in on his 5th consequtive rendition of 'Speed Bonny Boat' and I just snapped"
No jury in the world would convinct me. And it would be a mercy killing really. For everyone involved.

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I'm sorry if anyone here plays the bagpipes, btw.
Not sorry if you're offended, just sorry you play the bagpipes.

Comments

[neur0vanity.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! Hilarious! This is a perfect start to my day.

[fredbassett]

Yep, I've checked the legal precedents, looks like it's legal!

Oops, that was me dreaming an AU legal dream, but it should be legal, it really should, I'll sign the petition!!

I recommend Ian Edgerton and his rifle :)

[paraka]

Aww, I like the bagpipes. Granted any song played over and over again should be shut up. For like a week, my former boss would walk by my desk singing the same song, like ever hour. It drove me a bit batty, and that was just every hour.