Today's AP news clip caught our attention.
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Demonstrators calling for the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker learned there really is such a thing as too much cowbell.
Oshkosh police arrested a 26-year-old Appleton man on Thursday after he kept playing a cowbell and shaking it in an officer's face when he and other protesters were told to be quiet.
The Oshkosh Northwestern reports that when the officer tried to take the cowbell, the man pushed the officer. He was taken to the Winnebago County Jail. Police will recommend that the man be charged with disorderly conduct [disorderly cowbell?] and resisting arrest.
Jazz Mechanica wonders if this could be a precedent setting event leading to long overdue laws protecting musicians and audiences from too much cowbell. We think bands would welcome an ordinance prohibiting over eager, stage hogging, cow bell banging vocalists and other attention grabbing cats from drowning out the rest of the band with their incessant banging and clanging. Knowing that their cowbell was, in fact, a jailhouse doorbell, it might tone them down, or would it?
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