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GOSS9@telefonica.net

Re: No more sword dances?

June 4, 2008, 12:23 a.m. (Message 52668, in reply to message 52611)

Thanks Graham, as mentioned in my post, this thread seems to have been 
based on a misinterpretation of the actual situation, as Briggs and I 
suspected. As there are exemptions, I am sure that the controlled 
public display of swords for sword dancing is not endangered, nor is it 
illegal to borrow someone else´s to practice. It is probably a good 
thing to have some oversight reminders from an insurance company. I 
myself have seen young kids playing Errol Flynn with swords between 
competitions, at games, so someone besides a passive parent should have 
some valid reason to encourage safety.

As with many laws, I suspect that this will not be aggressively 
enforced, but should the local authorities see a potential problem it 
is probably a good law to fall back on. Sort of the equivalent of the 
fact that most traffic authorities are not particularly bothered if you 
are exceeding the speed limit by less then 5mph in optimum conditions, 
but rather quick to enforce the letter of the law when visibility is 
zero.