Race relations gone kooky

Subject: Race relations gone kooky
Date: Tue, Jun 12 2001 00:00:02 EDT

When Christopher Shaw read this, he thought we would get a kick out of it.

Police Probe 'Race Crime' Haggis Attack

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - British police said on Wednesday they were treating a haggis attack on the house of a Scottish woman living in England as a "racially-motivated hate crime." A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester police said the traditional Scottish dish -- normally the size of a pineapple -- had been thrown through the front window of Christine MacKinnon, 45, in the Rochdale area of the city northwest in England. "We can confirm the object thrown was a haggis, which has been taken away for examination," the spokeswoman said. Scotland's Daily Record tabloid newspaper said MacKinnon grew up in Glasgow but had lived in England for 35 years and had lost all trace of her Scottish accent. "This harassment from my neighbors has been going on for two years," the paper quoted her as saying. "I've had people screaming in my house telling me to get back to Scotland. But I won't budge."