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From: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: bell-ringing in malls .. an unusual phenomenon in Hoosier-land...
Message-ID: <2790@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 14:10:45 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.2790
Posted: Fri Dec 14 14:10:45 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 03:09:25 EST
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Reply-To: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Xref: watmath net.misc:7137 net.legal:1123
Summary: 

In article <690@pucc-k> ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch) writes:
>
>	A few days ago I was shopping at a local mall (Tippecanoe Mall,
>right across from Tyler Too Plaza ) and noticed
>that the Salvation Army volunteer was shaking two sticks with paper
>bells on the end of each stick.
>
>	As it turns out, it's supposedly illegal for these volunteers to 
>ring bells in malls...  Is this true, and has it happened in other places?
>
>	And, *why* would this be illegal?

There was an article in today's (12/14/84)  Los Angeles Herald Examiner 
on that very subject (unfortunately, I didn't buy the paper). It pointed
out that many mall shop owners said that the bells interfered with their
business, and so they got the mall associations to kick the volunteers out.
They also pointed out that one enterprising group of volunteers took to
ringing wooden bells with "ding" painted on one side and "dong" on the 
other.

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