Do you have a licence for that sporran, sir?

This made me laugh, so I copied and pasted the whole lot, credit to Bill Ray

EU to demand Highlander's credentials
By Bill Ray → More by this author
Published Monday 25th June 2007 15:05 GMT


Legislation designed to protect endangered species will sporran-wearing Scots to be able to prove their fur-pouch was legally killed, according to reports on the BBC.


The rules also apply to items made from other vulnerable animals, including hedgehogs, bats, dolphins and wildcats, though anyone who sports a sporran
made of hedgehog skin is probably not attending a Highland Game.

Anyone caught wearing a dress sporran will now have to worry about proving
that the animal was killed before 1994, or was legally culled, in addition
to dealing with the ridicule such dress inspires outside formal Highland
occasions.


In our experience most wearers of the kilt are American tourists, to whom
plastic is as good as fur; or locals who went to school with the local police and aren't going to pay any attention to what some sassenach says they should do.

It's all very well for the Scottish Executive to say that illegal fur will be taken from its owner, but anyone who grabs for a Highlander's sporran does so at their own risk.