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Why Scottish bus drivers can ban bagpipes

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Even the Scots know that there is a proper time and place for their national instrument, and a claustrophobic double-decker bus is absolutely not it. Transit regulations specifically empower drivers to deny entry to anyone trying to busk with the loud, whining sac of sheepskin. Because clearly, rush hour is already miserable enough without a sudden, unsolicited rendition of 'Scotland the Brave'.

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