The children were shocked, as I recall, by the fact that their friends
didn't think the trick was nearly as funny as they did, and in fact had
them arrested for battery.
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>From: JPiccin@aol.com[SMTP:JPiccin@aol.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 1997 7:01 AM
>To: Andrew Rogers; P.H.J.Davies@reading.ac.uk
>Cc: sandbaggers@skylee.com
>Subject: Re: What's in a name?
>
>Regarding the term "kosh"... I have never heard that term used in the
>States.
> I do recall hearing the term in the Clash song "Somebody got Murdered"
>from
>the Sandanista album so I've always assumed it to be British. American
>cops,
>particularly plainclothesmen did, and some still do, carry blackjacks,
>also
>called a sap. These were small sand filled leather truncheons, which
>any
>reader of classic crime fiction can tell you can be used in varied and
>effective means in skilled hands - more subtle than the modern
>nightstick.
>
>