From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houxe!houxi!hou5d!elr
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: lawn chairs
Article-I.D.: hou5d.114
Posted: Fri Jul  9 11:08:18 1982
Received: Sun Jul 11 02:35:59 1982
References: sri-unix.2043

	While I agree that the suggestion of restricting export of
lawn chairs to the USSR for their use in anti-satellite warfare is
absurd; they still could be used as weapons.  For instance; they
could convert them to the deadly beach chair and use them to line
their coast.  So when our troops storm their beach they will trip
on the chairs, sprain their ankles, and be sitting ducks for the
Russian Lifeguards to take them hostage.
	Another military application for these lawn chairs is
to place them under a shade tree at the front line with the
country you are battling with.  The tired enemy troops (us) will see
them and sit down to rest.  Almost immediately they will fall through
the weavings becoming hopelessly stuck and taken prisoner.
	Therefore we should all write our congress-creatures
and get them to pass legislation restricting the sale of lawn
chairs to the USSR for national security reasons.

						Elliot Rappaport
						BTL - Holmdel