Deploy the Weapon

Um. 

It’s a thing.  

Apparently. 

Among Japanese children who play in school bands.

Educators who fret about girly pink bubble guns and Pop Tarts chewed into vaguely gun-like shapes will no doubt be horrified. 

Comments

[rjmadden]

From the Twitter link on #3:

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I'm glad someone's taking the tuba menace seriously.

[David]

I’m glad someone's taking the tuba menace seriously.

Musical instruments must not be perverted into weapons of mass destruction. I’m sure our leftist educators will be on this in no time:

One little boy, 5 years old, wet his pants during the two-hour interrogation after he brought an orange-tipped cowboy-style cap gun on the school bus.

Because, you know, they’re doing it for the children.

[svh]

You just couldn't do that with a violin (which I played at school instead of the tuba, sadly).

[David]

Clearly the tuba’s where it’s at.

In fact, isn’t the tuba a key component of the cavernous BWAAAHHP noise that now seems to be used in every other film trailer?

[mojo]

Thank god there was no assault clarinet!

[witwoud]

Is it just me, or do the Japanese seem to have a lot of time on their hands?

[David]

And there’s this rather distressed rendition of Blue Monday played on a tuba.

[alanstorm]

When tubas are outlawed, only outlaws will have tubas.