bekopharm: “TIL: Wales is so very backwate…”

TIL: Wales is so very backwater that they don’t seem to know about #LARP (or #HEMA or #SCA or Boffer Wars or…). Some dude wearing obvious fantasy gear and a clear as daylight _FOAM_ stick gets jumped at gunpoint by police:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-knight-st-mellons-cardiff-18258259
Hint: It’s not even a “fake sword” or a trainer (waster). It’s a _toy_.
I can relate btw. We did “train” with our toys in the park a decade ago already and police was curious but polite.
Later even with blunt steel.
They never… https://beko.famkos.net/t/Uza