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Wellington Scottish Pipes and Drums
WSPD Cracked Chanter Awards
  • D---, a piper in the band, had woken early on Anzac Day to prepare for the dawn service. Fully kitted out in the No 1 uniform D--- sat down to breakfast and promptly fell asleep. Waking at 8:30, long after the dawn service parade had finished, D--- thought he might still be in time for the 9:00 parade. As the band was marching down Willis Street they noticed a lone piper performing a skilful outflanking manoeuvre. D---, who had been crouching inconspicuously behind a parked car (as far as that is possible in a feather bonnet and carrying a set of bagpipes) leapt out from his position to join the parade!
  • Early 1999 the band played at an all night dance party (the band only played for part of the night obviously). Much alcohol was consumed and a good time had by all. T---, a piper in the band did not immediately put away his pipes but left them on a seat in the bus. Having yacked on to the people in the seats in front for over an hour, T---, now tired and having forgot about his pipes, promptly sat back in his seat - and on his pipes, breaking the bass drone at one of the pins: The wages of sin!

 

 

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