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EARTHDATE: March 17, 2013

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU BAGPIPES WERE BAD FOR YOU!     

by Hazed

I’ve always hated bagpipes. They sound like someone is strangling a cat. No wonder they were used on the battlefield - they’d be guaranteed to make the enemy want to run away.

Now we have confirmation that they are dangerous things, as they have made a elderly player ill.

John Shone, 77, was rushed to hospital last September with a life-threatening lung infection. Doctors gave him only a 50% chance of surviving, and were baffled about the source of the infection. It was only when his son took his bagpipes in for tests that they found the deadly bugs came from the malign musical instrument.

John had not cleaned his bagpipes for 18 months because they were “going well” and he didn’t want to tamper with them. As a result, poisonous fungus has sprouted inside them, and when he’d been practicing for a big performance he had inhaled a lungful of the deadly fumes.

Glasgow’s College of Piping has warned pipers that they should clean their instruments regularly to kill any bugs. The principal, Robert Wallace, said, “Pipe bags must be sterilised regularly.”

Yes, or you could stop playing the bloody bagpipes and take up a more melodious instrument instead!

Source: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4835558/OAP-John-Shone-catches-bug-from-bagpipes.html

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