RE: [Harp-L] Re: Arrested for playing harp



Thanks for the post, and your kind approach to the law, Yer Honor.  It's
nice to know that while justice may be blind, it's not deaf!
Tom McGovern
Richmond, MI

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gary
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 10:49 AM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Arrested for playing harp

If any of y'all get arrested in Mobile, Alabama, for playing harp in 
public, this harmonica-sucking Magistrate will get you out of jail, 
free!  I keep a C, an A, and a D on my desk while I'm magistratin'.


Gary Cohen   ||   gary@xxxxxx
Magistrate, City of Mobile, Alabama


At 06:03 PM 2/3/2007, you wrote:
>From: David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
>Winslow sparked some memories in which I was almost arrested for 
>playing harmonica, I wonder if anyone else has had that ignominious
experience?
>
>In Boston, ('71?) I was ejected from our basement crash-pad to play 
>my harp outdoors.  I sat on a snowy stoop and blew (and sucked!) 
>with abandon, when suddenly a member of Boston's finest approached 
>my caterwauling self and said, "Boy, there's an 1890's ordinance in 
>Boston outlawing the playing of harmonicas in public, and 
>altho  I've never seen it enforced it before, in your case I 'd make 
>an exception!"
>
>I stopped and returned to my crowded hole on Marlboro Street, shamed 
>and quiet.
>
><SNIP>
>
>A Pasadena cop immediately confronted me and angrily said he'd 
>arrested me if I didn't stop.  I hesitated.  After all, I was being 
>accused of playing music, finally!  The cop was serious (stupid!) 
>and an afternoon in the hoosegow would be inconvenient, so I ceased 
>and desisted.
>
>And this timidity from a guy who was arrested no less that a several 
>dozen times in demonstrations in the 60's and 70's.  Go figure.
>
>Another thread might be playin' harp in jail, I won't start it now.
>
>Anyone else faced arrest for their sucking on harps?
>
>-Dave Fertig
>
>------------------------------
>From: Michael Rubin <rubinmichael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [Harp-L] arrested for harp
>To: d d d <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <915408.11669.qm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
>I have never been arrested for harp playing, but I have been asked 
>to stop busking by cops a few times.

<SNIP>

>   "I wonder why cops make me so uncomfortable.  Perhaps it is 
> because I am a musician."
>   "Musician?", he said,"Is this YOUR band?"
>   "No."  I lied.  I regret not being true to my band, yet I think I 
> made the right choice.
>
>   In another story, I was arrested at 16 years old for being drunk 
> in public.  They took my harps away with the rest of my possessions 
> before putting me in the cell.  I always thought I got ripped 
> off.  May I never have the chance again.
>   Michael Rubin
>*************************************




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