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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: bell-ringing in malls .. an unusual phenomenon in Hoosier-land...
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 11:45:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 11:45:22 1984
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> 
> 	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?
> -- 
They have been using the paper bells here for a few years.  I don't
think it's illegal to ring bells but maybe they decided that they
got more contributions by not getting on peoples nerves.  If someone
was ringing an obnoxious little bell, I'd walk on the other side of
the hall.

-Ron