Click pic for a quick yodel
An Austrian court has recently fined a citizen for yodeling while mowing his lawn, according to a report in The Kronen Zeitung newspaper.
The citizen, 63-year-old Helmut G., was told by the court that his yodeling offended his next-door Muslim neighbors, who accused him of trying to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin. In Muslim tradition, the Muezzin is the chosen person at a mosque who leads the call to prayer.
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Developed in the Central Alps as a method of communication between alpine mountaineers or between alpine villages, the yodel later became part of the region’s traditional lore and musical expression.
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Unfortunately for Helmut G., his neighbors were in the middle of a prayer when he started to yodel. The Kronen Zeitung reported that he was fined 800 Euros after judges ruled that he could have tried to offend his neighbors and ridicule their belief.Helmut G. clarified that “It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood.”
#9, “Yo, yo, Monster’s Lawyer…” (folds arms across chest and strikes a pose.)
How about combining yodeling with rap … in Arabic, or how about in French? (I’m thinking of “Brigitte Fotaine’s “Hammam En Plein Air” from the album “Grenre Humain”
One of the backing instruments would be the saw and another would be the accordion (music in accord with the sentiments of an assassin.
(OUCH!!! Thinking about that just set off such a cacophony in my “mind’s ear”.)
My friend lived next to where they built the local mosque in the town I went to college in. He bought a grill and we had brat parties every Friday night. They tried to complain, but it is legal to barbecue on Friday evenings.
I love brats, especially the ones that have cheese squirted in the middle of them.
mpod==maybe because he said ““Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
I had to google, but still. I can think of a few noises less disagreeable, the sigh of a lover and so forth. something Mr Johnson had no familiarity with. He read, but didn’t believe, the romantic poets.
Hee, hee.
This European judge said the defendant “could have” committed a crime, and then the judge went ahead and “did” exactly that to the poor Euro Yodeler.
Euro-justice, isn’t, simply said.
After they got through abusing him I doubt if he’ll be in a good mood any time soon. Notice they didn’t say he was trying to offend them. It was enough that he _might_ have been trying to offend them.
Yes just forget that Yodeling is part of Austrian cultural heritage and all.
Muslims are infecting the world, and white apologetics are helping.