Subject: feathery felonies
Date: Jan 17 07:12:45 2003
From: Gary Bletsch - garybletsch at yahoo.com



Dear Tweeters,

The illegality of keeping feathers is an amusing example of how the law limps along behind common sense. Luckily, enforcement does not reach the exremes imaginable--how many kids have picked up a flicker feather and marvelled at the colored shaft? Slam go the gates of the juvenile detention hall!

It reminds me of the old saw about the police in England having the power to arrest any man in the park--one law on the books said that all men had to practice their archery in order to defend the realm. Another law, also on the books, said that it was illegal to practice archery in the park. Therefore, one way or another, every man in the park was a felon!

Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch





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