On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:04:10 +0300, "Haluk" <yokoolebiri@spam.net>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>yazdi:m88rmv84361melto3adpdeneu8keq3ejj4@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:44:42 +0300, "Haluk" <yokoolebiri@spam.net>
>> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>>
>> >"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp>, haber iletisinde sunlari
>> >yazdi:m5rpmvo1pfqcaj97bhf16spobn4pvj7l03@4ax.com...
>> >> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:44:06 +0300, "Haluk" <yokoolebiri@spam.net>
>> >> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>> >>
>> >> >"Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing" <laugh@my.nuts.wouldja?>, haber iletisinde
>> >?unlar?
>> >> >yazd?:bkhgmu$9sa$1@nn-tk106.ocn.ad.jp...
>> >> >> Are they really all such weak fighters??
>> >> >> I've seen better punchups in nursing home parking lots back home.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Faegs.
>> >> >
>> >> >Good ones (those who practice martial arts) can't fight. Strict laws
>> >> >consider their fight to be more deadly (and for a good reason) thus
>> >charges
>> >> >applicable on them are more severe.
>> >>
>> >> Could you cite the relevant statute please?
>> >
>> >My father in law from Karate Fed. of Japan has told me this. The man has
>8
>> >dans, and he cracked 3 ribs while stretching before his morning exercise.
>So
>> >I took his word for it. But if he says so, it must be true.
>>
>> While in university, I met a young woman who swore up and down that
>> the Japanese make salad dressing out of snake piss. She picked up this
>> nugget from her father. She assured me that since her father said it,
>> it must be true.
>
>Aside from being my in law, the man is in Karate Federation for god's sake.
>So the fact he's being my in law nulls his expert opinion?

No, my snake piss anecdote was really sort of a tangent.

I pointed out to her, though, that just because her father wouldn't
lie to her didn't mean that other people wouldn't lie to her father.
This is the very nature of how Urban Legends get started, isn't it?
Both her father and your father-in-law may believe they are telling
the absolute gospel truth. While common sense tells us her father was
full of shit, yet trying to prove it is a futile task. In the other
case, however, all it takes is a citation of which of these strict
laws is applicable. Your father-in-law may be spreading gospel, or he
may be spreading an Urban Legend. But since his assertion is based on
the Japanese penal code, it should be very easy to confirm.