Re: self defence, Australian biker style

Robert Sneddon wrote:
> In message <memo.20080303111600.828A@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Paul
> Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>> In article <47cb4a43$0$1113$804603d3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> dsgood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dan Goodman) wrote:
>>
>>> In the 1960s, robbers in NYC picked a union headquarters -- the
>>> housewreckers' union.
>> And I've heard a story in the UK of a street gang who decided to attack
>> a group of Viking re-enactors, who were in costume and carrying swords.
> 
>  During the 1993 Worldcon I remember walking across Market St. on my way
> back to the ops office in one of the hotels, accompanied by a guy in a
> chain-mail hauberk and wearing a sword scabbarded at his side. We went
> past a police car where two tired-looking cops were remonstrating with a
> local who was waving a broken walking stick in the air. The cops paid us
> no attention.
> 
>  In Brighton in 1979 during the Worldcon I staggered out of the
> Metropole early in the morning after an all-nighter and wandered down
> the beach to the water's edge where there was a Viking asleep in a
> deckchair, small-axe hooked conveniently to hand on the back rail. After
> a while he woke up, looked around at me and muttered "Breakfast?" I
> nodded and we went back up to the seafront and found a cafe doing a full
> English. Biggest problem he had was finding somewhere to park his sword
> as the cafe was a bit crowded.


Some time in the mid 90s I was in the habit of going down to Brighton 
to visit friends.  Friends who were into Viking re-enactment.  On 
Sunday mornings I'd get dragged from my bed and shoved into garb, then 
we'd wander through the town with our swords, etc, to a local park, 
where the fight practice took place - in the open air.

The police would give us a cheery wave as they passed by.

-- 
Jette Goldie
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