Passenger Detained Over Song Choice

To: John Jorsett

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/05/clash_fan_terrorist/print.html

Clash fan nicked
By John Oates
Published Wednesday 5th April 2006 11:36 GMT
A man from Teeside was dragged from a plane and questioned for three hours under the Terrorism Act after a cabbie reported him because he was worried about his choice of music.

Harraj Mann, from Teeside, suffered the interogation after he got a cab to Durham airport and plugged his MP3 player into the taxi's stereo.

After playing Procol Harem, which the cabbie enjoyed, he played the Clash's London Calling and Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song. These clearly didn't go down so well because the taxi driver reported his passenger to police once they arrived at Durham airport.

Mr Mann was hauled off the plane to London and questioned. He was released without charge and caught a later flight. More from Reuters here. (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-04-05T101158Z_01_L05785309_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CLASH.xml&archived=False)

It is not the first time Clash lyrics have attracted the wrath of UK authorities. In June 2004 Bristol man Mike Devine was arrested at his office after sending a text message including words from the Clash song Tommy Gun. There was speculation as to how the text message came to police attention - they insisted Devine had mis-sent the text and that they don't spend all their time reading everyone's messages. Click here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/03/text_punk/) for more.

Devine was released once he'd convinced investigators he played in a tribute band. ®

21 posted on 04/20/2006 12:06:46 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)

To: John Jorsett

Mr. Mann, have you tried The Beach Boys? They're "Fun, Fun, Fun", and won't upset the airport authorities.

22 posted on 04/20/2006 12:07:52 PM PDT by lfod1776

23 posted on 04/20/2006 12:08:01 PM PDT by evets (S.o.a.P)

Just play anything by the "Bay City Rollers" and you will be safe...

Except, of course, the possiblity of the taxi driver intentionally driving into oncoming traffic!

S-A, T-U-R, D-A-Y... Night!

24 posted on 04/20/2006 12:08:04 PM PDT by Stone Mountain

To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Isn't that 'cue' the Viking Kitties? A queue is a line. In other words, "line up the Viking Kitties."

25 posted on 04/20/2006 12:08:23 PM PDT by WashingtonSource (Freedom is not free.)

To: John Jorsett

Just please, mister, please don't play B-17...

26 posted on 04/20/2006 12:09:03 PM PDT by Hatteras

To: <1/1,000,000th%

The only lefty band I ever liked.

27 posted on 04/20/2006 12:10:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)

To: John Jorsett

Or "Bombs Over Baghdad" by Outkast.....

28 posted on 04/20/2006 12:12:28 PM PDT by Crispus Attucks Patriot (The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)

Actually, that line sounds vaguely Wagnerian, hehehe.

29 posted on 04/20/2006 12:13:09 PM PDT by Crispus Attucks Patriot (The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)

To: John Jorsett

Remember, you're talking about that silly lil' island with a ridiculous royal family, bad weather, crappy food, and warm beer.....

30 posted on 04/20/2006 12:14:59 PM PDT by Crispus Attucks Patriot (The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)

I guess "Guns of Brixton" would have been a bad choice, too.

31 posted on 04/20/2006 12:15:39 PM PDT by vollmond (Careful with that axe, Eugene!)

To: CarrotAndStick

"After playing Procol Harem, which the cabbie enjoyed,...

I guess when the cabbie heard the next two songs he turned his own whiter shade of pale...

32 posted on 04/20/2006 12:16:38 PM PDT by Hatteras

To: WashingtonSource

Isn't that 'cue' the Viking Kitties? A queue is a line. In other words, "line up the Viking Kitties."

Ooops. Another Freeping at work casualty.

I'm usually so careful about my spelling and phraseology.

33 posted on 04/20/2006 12:17:06 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)

Now just what's wrong with a B-17???

34 posted on 04/20/2006 12:17:43 PM PDT by Crispus Attucks Patriot (The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)

Just play anything by the "Bay City Rollers" and you will be safe...

But your ears won't be.

35 posted on 04/20/2006 12:19:24 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Every man must be tempted, sometimes,to hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.)

To: Crispus Attucks Patriot

It was our song, it was his song, but it's ooooooooover...

36 posted on 04/20/2006 12:23:26 PM PDT by Hatteras

To: John Jorsett

Mann, 24, also asked the driver to play "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin, which begins, "The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, to fight the horde singing and crying Valhalla, I'm coming!"

Hey!
The guys a Freeper!
What's up with that?

37 posted on 04/20/2006 12:24:24 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)

To: John Jorsett

38 posted on 04/20/2006 12:26:46 PM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")

To: Stone Mountain

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39 posted on 04/20/2006 12:27:17 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)

To: CarrotAndStick; Cronos

I can betcha they did this because he is a Sikh.

40 posted on 04/20/2006 12:36:45 PM PDT by Gengis Khan

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